- Nov 24, 2006
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Having watched most of the seasons highs and lows, and culminating in last night's debacle, it's occurred to me that having the mental edge over rival teams far out ways the importance of the quality of playing personel.
For example, we played a much inferior (in terms of player quality) Sunderland team midweek (with our superior XI) and yet that advantage did not tip the result in our favour. Then yesterday, two relatively equally matched teams, one on a good run of former (us), and the other woefully lacking in confidence and form (liverpool). And yet the team on a bad run of former rolls over the other without breaking a sweat. How is this possible? How can the tables be turned so radically? And why is it so often Spurs that find ever more impressive ways of being on the receiving ends of results like this from positions of strength?
If the mods feel this thread need not exist, please delete. But our mentality is so much more than players ability, player value, player experience (after all, we have players that have won things before), and I don't know if we've debated this as such.
Sorry for the ramble, just interested to know what people's views and solutions might be to our seesaw mental strength.
For example, we played a much inferior (in terms of player quality) Sunderland team midweek (with our superior XI) and yet that advantage did not tip the result in our favour. Then yesterday, two relatively equally matched teams, one on a good run of former (us), and the other woefully lacking in confidence and form (liverpool). And yet the team on a bad run of former rolls over the other without breaking a sweat. How is this possible? How can the tables be turned so radically? And why is it so often Spurs that find ever more impressive ways of being on the receiving ends of results like this from positions of strength?
If the mods feel this thread need not exist, please delete. But our mentality is so much more than players ability, player value, player experience (after all, we have players that have won things before), and I don't know if we've debated this as such.
Sorry for the ramble, just interested to know what people's views and solutions might be to our seesaw mental strength.