Slim wrote:Wooders wrote:if our home form is anything like last season and our away form stays good then I'll start to believe - if we win away at Villa and take a top four scalp at their place then we can start to dream the impossible dream I reckon
There's another delusion, we lost a third of our home matches last season, if we want to actually get anywhere we need to lose about 6 less games at home.
We won a lot of games though; enough for a title challenge if our away form had been top 4 standard. That's what it's about now; how many games we win. If we win more than the other top sides we win the league irrespective of losing the odd game.
Schmeichel in a recent interview explained the rag/baconface winning mentality better than anyone imo. He said simply that a defeat wasn't a disaster to them. If they lost a game they didn't dwell on it, just got on with winning the next one. Everyone thinks they're brooding about it but they're actually just eager to win the next game. And what usually happens? They win the next one & the team that beat them loses to Stoke. Normal service is resumed & on they go.
We're so used to being in relegation battles where we're trying not to lose & have everything to lose that we don't have that kind of mentality as fans. We tend to dwell on defeat & look to apportion blame. At the top it's about winning & not being afraid to lose. Some games we know we can't just go out & batter the oppo on their own ground & need to be cautious in order to win the game but that's common sense, not fear. We showed no fear at OT, well after the 1st goal we didn't anyway! We need to keep it that way.
RSC's comments are part of that mentality; not being afraid what other's think, not being afraid to have 'egg on our faces' if it doesn't happen because we know that we'll win sooner or later & shove that egg back where it belongs. Winning mentality.