wanderlust wrote: Sluffy wrote:You don't half talk guff at times,
It's nothing at all to do with our players taking "a disrespectful attitude" towards lower table teams!
Well nobody, especially you, is qualified to say what attitude our players took in the games we lost. Which is why I wrote that I hope they weren't disrespectful - because I don't know either.
The guff is all yours my friend.
Professional paid footballers on what £3,000 per week at the very least, some paid double and more, most of the squad brought in on fees which these days would include psychiatric testing to gauge the strengths (or weaknesses) of the individuals players personality traits. Who train and play with team mates almost daily throughout a nine month season, assessed by several coaches and the manager, on an almost daily basis all whom bond together through team building exercises and pre-season and mid-season 'trips' away together, who are drilled to work as a TEAM, picked, selected and benched by Evatt if they don't. Motivated before and at half time during all games by the manager (and fellow senior players) and worked on throughout the whole season by professional motivational coaches, collectively (and individually)...
...and if that isn't enough to motivate anyone, your own players will bollock you (even fight with you!) on the pitch if you somehow let the rest of the team down with your attitude (in this case "a disrespectful attitude" towards lower table teams).
If ANY professional league club has "a disrespectful attitude" towards lower table teams, I'd be utterly amazed, and the manager simply would not be in a job long if he failed to motivate his team to be professional against anyone, higher or lower than them, anywhere in the league pyramid.
Evatt certainly doesn't allow it as can be evidenced by him on several occasions demanding more goals in games where we were already winning by 4 or 5 goals anyway!
Mate, you seem to spend half your life watching and talking about football, but you simply don't understand it, you can't see any depth within it at all.
You just see what is on the surface and not how it is far deeper than that otherwise you wouldn't make silly comments about players possibly having "a disrespectful attitude" towards lower table teams, as you have!
These are the sort of things pub team players might have, but not professional athletes (which they are) with all that entails, as I've point out the obvious to you, above.
You remind me of that saying about knowing the price of everything but the value of nothing in that you 'see' football but you've no idea what is really going on, or why it is.
I don't believe you've actually ever played proper competitive games, as you clearly don't see the game from a player (or team unit), or opposition teams game plans perspectives at all, you might think you do from playing 5 a side with your employees or whatever it was that you once did, but you clearly don't.
You can only see it from a fan perspective only.
It's a free world though, if you think I'm talking out of my arse that's up to you because I'm absolutely certain that you do.
Kia ora.