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mystic eddie wrote:This is a great quote this one.....
Yeah - it helps us in a number of ways like......
a. being embarrassing. b. putting a big negative in our points against column.
and, erm???
Well, if you want to know "erm", then you could have quoted what he actually said, though I'm not surprised you didn't. But what he explained was:
Quote:“Losing by a scoreline like that probably actually helps us in some way, rather than it being a close one. It gives us the real kick up the backside we need.”
We would (I think) be in agreement ( ) that the team should nt, actually, need a kick up the backside, but the point he very clearly made, and which to be charitable you may have missed, is simply this: a player or players might over a period of days after a narrow or not too drastic defeat, persuade themselves that it wasn't that bad, or that there were understandable or acceptable explanations for it. Whereas after a fairly unmitigated disaster like that (which McNamara is the first to admit it was) no such delusion is possible.
I'd say it was a fair point.
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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:Well, if you want to know "erm", then you could have quoted what he actually said, though I'm not surprised you didn't. But what he explained was:
I know what he said. I mentioned it further down the post.
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) that the team should nt, actually, need a kick up the backside, but the point he very clearly made, and which to be charitable you may have missed, is simply this: a player or players might over a period of days after a narrow or not too drastic defeat, persuade themselves that it wasn't that bad, or that there were understandable or acceptable explanations for it. Whereas after a fairly unmitigated disaster like that (which McNamara is the first to admit it was) no such delusion is possible.
