Feedback from the players resulting in changes to preseason training is promising to produce a better prepared Greater Northern Raiders in a return statewide campaign.
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Winning four times in 17 appearances proved a steep learning curve for the Cricket Tasmania Premier League rookies last summer.
Focused on improvements to the second-last finish as one of only two teams to lose outright twice, exit surveys had revealed a desire to tailor their own game to overcome the step up to a higher level.
"Preseason has been more about the individual player's needs, what they want, how they had saw themselves and what we could help them become better players," Raiders coach Andrew Gower said.
Sheffield Shield-winning coach Tim Coyle and one-time state pace bowler Roger Brown joined Gower since July to take the players aside.
Gower had returned from a Cricket Australia invitation to join a level-three coaching course fresh with new ideas.
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"We've done things quite different this year," he said.
"We just haven't turned up and had a net - it hasn't been an old traditional session.
"It's been that one-on-one, lot of bowling machine stuff, lots of throw downs, lot of working on their techniques.
"We've looked at execution more than anything else."
Gower is expecting greater buy-in from players this year that will take care of results.
"The big thing for me is being able to sit back and evaluate us as a group, see how we want to coach and talk to the players about what they want to get out of it," he said.
"It's about players and relationships - and how we can continue to build them up."
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