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Offline Rudy Can't Fail

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Re: New Found Resilience
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2014, 11:02:49 AM »
This resilience has been passed on to me watching them.

A strange sensation came over me on Monday, when as my anger at their goals subsided, I actually started to believe we'd get back into it.

Not hope, belief. I've not felt it for a while.

Same here. 2-0 down last night and I never doubted we'd get back into the game. Obviously I never expected it to happen so quickly but the lads give so much on the pitch, once they find their stride there's a very good side there, as we saw against Liverpool. The problem is mainly two things, a lack of organisation and confidence.

You may win battles with gung-ho but you don't win wars.

Offline richard moore

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Re: New Found Resilience
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2014, 12:13:20 PM »
Bizarre isn't it because I felt the same. I'd just come in from a long day out working in Haywards Heath and yet was almost unconcerned when we went 2-0 down as I knew we'd get back into it. I'd have been far more nervous in fact if we'd gone two up. Too early though to talk about new found resilience, let's judge that over a period of a couple of months or so

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Re: New Found Resilience
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2014, 12:26:24 PM »
Bizarre isn't it because I felt the same. I'd just come in from a long day out working in Haywards Heath and yet was almost unconcerned when we went 2-0 down as I knew we'd get back into it. I'd have been far more nervous in fact if we'd gone two up. Too early though to talk about new found resilience, let's judge that over a period of a couple of months or so

The thread was started a couple of months back so we're ok!

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Re: New Found Resilience
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2014, 12:26:42 PM »
True, after all it was only the Albion. Saying that, we've struggled against the weaker teams this season. Only time will tell.

Offline Dave Clark Five

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Re: New Found Resilience
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2014, 06:58:19 PM »
My favourite football bets last season were Villa to be winning at half time but to lose at full time, and for the time of the last goal in our matches to be 80 minutes plus.

Not the same this year.

I have done that half time bet for every game bar two this season. One of them was Man City. I didn't dodge it on purpose but didn't see the bookie's runner in the Lions Club.

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Re: New Found Resilience
« Reply #20 on: January 31, 2014, 08:09:22 AM »
To give the defence credit I no longer dread the opposition getting a corner or any crosses going into our box.

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Re: New Found Resilience
« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2014, 12:50:04 PM »
Amazing that when we look for positive there are plenty of them

Offline Irish villain

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Re: New Found Resilience
« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2014, 01:39:23 PM »
Amazing that when we look for positive there are plenty of them

The defence has been a big positive all  season and the fact that we are capable of grinding out results now. That spell from say late October to Christmas we looked poor and unadventurous but still got a few good points on the board. Last  season we'd have come away with nothing from a few of those games.

We have looked much more sprightly in recent weeks after quite a lethargic looking period when we just couldn't get going at all.

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Re: New Found Resilience
« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2014, 11:19:38 AM »
We haven't won three on the bounce since the pubey one left and you can count on the fingers of one of Gary Sobers' hands how many times we've won two on the trot in the meantime. We're about as resilient as a wet sheet of bog roll.

 


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