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The Mantra is All Wrong!

Sat Sep 17, 2022 3:18 pm

Rather than "Performances first and the results will come"

I think it should be more a case of:

"Concentrate on winning the game and with wins Confidence, Performance - and more wins - will follow"

Re: The Mantra is All Wrong!

Sat Sep 17, 2022 3:33 pm

Paul Keevil wrote:Rather than "Performances first and the results will come"

I think it should be more a case of:

"Concentrate on winning the game and with wins Confidence, Performance - and more wins - will follow"



Obviously hes taking 2nd half performance on Tues as the yardstick for todays team.. a complete failure regardless of if we manage win

Re: The Mantra is All Wrong!

Sun Sep 18, 2022 5:27 pm

Paul Keevil wrote:Rather than "Performances first and the results will come"

I think it should be more a case of:

"Concentrate on winning the game and with wins Confidence, Performance - and more wins - will follow"


People constantly misunderstood this. He meant once the players gelled and got to grips more with the playing style the results would come.

Re: The Mantra is All Wrong!

Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:43 pm

mjw6150 wrote:
Paul Keevil wrote:Rather than "Performances first and the results will come"

I think it should be more a case of:

"Concentrate on winning the game and with wins Confidence, Performance - and more wins - will follow"


People constantly misunderstood this. He meant once the players gelled and got to grips more with the playing style the results would come.



Could be right but it's hard to explain 2nd half boro whole of huddersfield game compared to 1st half boro? The two bad performances was purely down to tactics and not keeping to the basics of football dont change something if its successful. Something he clearly did on more than one occasion.

Re: The Mantra is All Wrong!

Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:20 am

Look at these games , Luton , boro , Reading , Millwall, Bristol . We were better than those teams , in the first half .
But their managers changed tactics , half time and beat us or went close (boro) . SM didn't have the tactical Knowledge or experience to counter it . Even Huddersfield we should have beaten them easily, 15 points lost there , down to bad management .

Re: The Mantra is All Wrong!

Mon Sep 19, 2022 7:11 pm

nojac wrote:Look at these games , Luton , boro , Reading , Millwall, Bristol . We were better than those teams , in the first half .
But their managers changed tactics , half time and beat us or went close (boro) . SM didn't have the tactical Knowledge or experience to counter it . Even Huddersfield we should have beaten them easily, 15 points lost there , down to bad management .



Came close in couple of others just poor finishing by several players not just strikers cost us more points.