04-19-2022, 01:55 PM
(04-19-2022, 01:03 PM)tonyo link Wrote:This isn't about changes in tactics, or positional moves - it clearly seems to be an attitudinal thing, we go into a form of cruise control, and cannot get the engine started again when we need to. We have all seen it in front of our eyes - we are in complete control, and then for some reason, we cannot get a goal to save ourselves. Then the muscles start to tighten up, the kicks start missing, the marks are dropped, the handballs don't hit the mark. And the harder you try to stop it, the harder it is to stop......
The one saving grace is, it is in our own hands and heads to fix this. The downside is, anyone who is behind us at half time will have a real belief that we can be run down.
Good sides don't worry about the scoreboard - they simply follow their process for the whole game, and the scores that come from that are the by-product. I think our second halves are a symptom of a team that is doing better than they imagined was possible. The trick is to mature into a team that expects to win every single contest across the whole 4 quarters, and don't accept anything less.
You middle paragraph is the only real concern to me… because we’ve been almost run down a few times this year in spite of our strong play, that it feeds the belief of opposition teams that they are not out of the game… which means that they’ll weather our storm and come back at us hard and THAT perception will take a long time to overcome and WILL cost us wins…
Other than that, we’re getting the 4 points, hopefully realising that games last longer than 60 mins.
Let’s go BIG !