on being soft

So, in Australia the word "soft" is used as like, not being stern on someone. or weak. You gotta be hard. I don't know if Americans use the work in the same content, but since my association with Aussies have been mainly thru rugby and they use that word often. When the training wasn't tough enough or opposition folds (give up). Or when you are discussing and you don't have your opinion. "Don't be soft, mate." is the term I heard it all the time.
Since the 5-0 thrashing done to us by Beleza, had two days off, and the training has not been "soft." Doing heaps (lots) of 1v1 stuff. But you can tell the girls were getting worn out after 4 days of hard work. Today was suppose to be another hard day, but I guess we changed it and kept it short. However, the intensity of 5v5 was up there.
I'm a GK coach as you all know and I was supposed to be given about an hour to work with the keeper. Just when we were about to do some drills we went into game type drills. Lucky we got our basics done. Oh, well, thing happen, that is out of your control. You move on. But that 5v5, you can tell they went hard out, but fatigue sat in rather quickly, so our coach's decision to cut the training short was a right thought.
Is my GK training soft? No, because one, we got National goalie who has lots of interesting and awesome drills and two, our back up needs heaps of attention on basic skills. Lots of talking communicating on both of them.