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Still think we're a season or two ahead of where we should be in our progression.
This is exactly, to the word what Brendan Rodgers said and I have to tell you, it is absolute bollox. What does it mean exactly? Nothing. It's an excuse for bottling it. Look what happened to BR and Liverpool after the nearly season
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It's not bollocks mike, managers use it as a way of taking pressure off players yes, but ultimately its about how you gain the experience necessary to win things. Do you think players are born winners? That teams instinctively know what they have to do to win?
It means you don't just get up to the top, and know what to do, how to handle the pressure and expectation, from both within and without, and to prepare for teams who before might have taken you lightly, but now you're in a title race, play like it's a cup tie. You've got to gain the experience to overcome the pressures, which for some teams and players happens all at once, but for most, takes time to build to. You make a run, you finish 4th, you make a run you finish 2nd, you make a run you win it. Because the team blend is strong, everyone knows how to handle it, or those that don't are coached by those that do.
Different sport, but it relates, Michael Jordan, joined the NBA in 1984, went to the playoffs for his first six years in the league and didn't win a title until 1991. Was he ready to win straight away, did he have what it took the first time he got into the crucible of crunch time pressure, did his team, did his coach? did he bottle it?
Sometimes you're ahead of where you should be, and where the organisation thinks you should be, and as I've said many times before, this season and it's title challenge is a bonus, champions league qualification is the thing (which gives us another season together, as the players will want to have that adventure) and despite all the win it now pressure, I'm thinking this group will be together next season and the season after, and if we challenge again know how to get through it...
cornelius_blackfoot
@>>>>>>, @Markyboy, @roboto
Ups and downs of the title race, we did Leicester a favour by not showing up for the West Ham game.
Still think we're a season or two ahead of where we should be in our progression. But we're in the title race and so you've got to try and win the thing.
This season we've always bounced back from defeats but the arsenal game takes on even more significance now..
Only good thing was arsenal losing as well, though they were damned unlucky, and Man City, which means that we're still waiting for Leicester to make a mistake which we then have to take advantage of..