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Post by Stewart on Oct 7, 2009 13:32:16 GMT
If you were the manager, what would you say to the team before they went out on the pitch Saturday?
I would ask Kevin Scriven to say a few words regarding the possibility of playing one of the very best sides in the country in the later rounds.
You can only get that far by raising your game against all opponents not just the ones you revere. Complacency is your greatest foe on Saturday, not the opposition.
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Post by os on Oct 7, 2009 16:58:37 GMT
As far as the team should be concerned its just another game, I don't believe in this geeing up stuff it should not be needed, if you don't have the passion you should not be at a club.
The only thing we should be looking to do is improve on previous performances and if we do that we will win whatever Walton do. The following week we should look to improve again, we have the players to win any game at our level and certainly beat teams below us, we don't need to get involved in the geeing business let Walton do that.
So my team talk is you are the better team go out and show it.
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Post by garethl on Oct 7, 2009 17:28:16 GMT
All very well but you do have to be 'up' for these games. If you're not you'll lose. It's all very well having more quality but you have to win the battle or it will count for nothing. Yes players should be expected to always commit 100% but anyone who's played the game knows there are some days it just doesn't happen and others when everyone seems to be right on it.
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Post by garethl on Oct 7, 2009 17:31:33 GMT
And we have no idea whether Walton are any worse or better than us anyway! They are just in a different, lower, league. Ok it's a good indicator that their quality may be not be as high but often teams a division apart can be closely matched.
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Post by frakey on Oct 7, 2009 17:48:10 GMT
Sorry OS, that's crap. How the hell did we beat Coventry? Yes we played well, yes we had some luck but CC were awful for a top Div One side that day. They strolled around for much of the game & just watching them after they scored - they thought they had it won - says it all. Complacency is dangerous.
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Post by os on Oct 7, 2009 18:22:45 GMT
Sorry OS, that's crap. How the hell did we beat Coventry? Yes we played well, yes we had some luck but CC were awful for a top Div One side that day. They strolled around for much of the game & just watching them after they scored - they thought they had it won - says it all. Complacency is dangerous. Coventry was a very rare game and even then you could hardly call the great Mr Williams a Gee up merchant, he would of conveyed a relaxed atmosphere to the players and got them to go out and play their game. Every kid or adult in anyway involved in football knows what the FA Cup means no one needs to be told and I know a lot of football is played in the head but good teams don't need geeing up. Yes if you are a non-league club playing a FL league side you need to get in their faces and make it difficult for them but we are not. We have the players more than good enough to win this match if they keep calm concentrate on their game and play as well as we know they can. Geeing up etc is ok for a one off match but you cannot use it every week and a winning or successful side it does not make. There is a difference between being complacent and calm and methodical it works far more often and Coventry would of won 99 out of 100 times if that game was played again but that day was destined to be Sutton's whether they put a tank division on the pitch! |
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Post by vern on Oct 8, 2009 4:58:32 GMT
The FA Cup is so special - shocking that some fans stay at home for these games - in real terms this is like the quarter-finals for Sutton - win this and we're in the semis against a Conference team (Luton, Wrexham, Oxford?) with one game away from....imagine...
Millwall?
Southampton?
Leeds?
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Post by Del on Oct 8, 2009 8:54:28 GMT
I'd tell them to go out and stuff Walton & Hersham who appear to be no better than Uxbridge on paper!Still its the FA Cup and who knows.
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Post by Stewart on Oct 8, 2009 10:19:29 GMT
I'd tell them to go out and stuff Walton & Hersham who appear to be no better than Uxbridge on paper.
That is the wrong attitude to take. Tell the side they are a very good team and only a good performance will see us win. Lack of respect could be our downfall.
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Post by Del on Oct 8, 2009 12:38:34 GMT
Sorry Stewart i forgot it was your thread!  |
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Post by Stewart on Oct 8, 2009 13:30:46 GMT
Apology excepted BTW Do you think we will stuff them? |
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Post by os on Oct 8, 2009 15:39:31 GMT
Respect yes, right attitude yes, but we have nothing to fear, nothing to be geed up for just a job to be done and we are quite capable of putting 3 or 4 past them!
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Post by Del on Oct 8, 2009 15:41:26 GMT
Going on present form of both teams i believe we can.
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Post by frakey on Oct 8, 2009 18:00:45 GMT
My point OS, was that if we turn up with the same attitude as CC then we'll get stuffed. That's how cup shocks occur. Underdog raises game and favourite lowers it. So being geed up for the game ain't gonna hurt, is it?
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