The Lurker Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) This is a very good read. I said to my son the other week during the first half of the Killie v Rangers game that if you took away the massive support and the strips they were playing in, that Rangers team was no different to a Dundee or a Ross County. They were bang average. Perception and psychology goes a long way in Scottish football. https://footballpink.net/2018/01/04/scottish-footballs-crisis-of-confidence/ Edited January 5, 2018 by The Lurker 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cammy_boy Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 That is a pretty good read. One of the biggest and simplest ways we can challenge the status quo and break the mindset that the old firm must dominate is to attend home games vs them and stop hiding on these occasions because they sing nasty wee songs and are a bit clatty. f**k them! MON THE KILLIE! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killieblue Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) This month proves that Steve Clarke has brought the confidence out in the players and made them show passion to killie. Edited January 5, 2018 by killieblue 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDeeBop Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 2 hours ago, cammy_boy said: That is a pretty good read. One of the biggest and simplest ways we can challenge the status quo and break the mindset that the old firm must dominate is to attend home games vs them and stop hiding on these occasions because they sing nasty wee songs and are a bit clatty. f**k them! MON THE KILLIE! For all the results against the Old Firm over the years, the simple fact is that money talks. They have it (relatively speaking) and us wee diddy teams don't. For every Leicester that happens, and it still blows my mind they won the league, there are thousands where the more expensive team came out on top. Now, we influence individual games to an extent and I'll never hide behind the excuse that they're better players simply because of fees/salary, but teams get beat mostly because they're not as good as the other team. Rangers are where they are, Dundee levels of competence, purely through years of utter financial mismanagement. This sounds all fairly defeatist, but I'm actually really positively minded most of the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Souleycouley93 Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 Games can be won and lost in the tunnel . Respecting teams to much gives them an advantage . Get in their faces . Believe in your own ability and have a go . That’s what we have been doing . Organisation is good then build from there . Basics right . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jock Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 If we stop calling them the 'old firm' keeping the pretence that they are still the same team and part of a duopoly perhaps that would be a start. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdevoy Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, killieblue said: This month proves that Steve Clarke has brought the confidence out in the players and made them show passion to killie. Exactly. He has convinced virtually the same squad of players as Lee McCulloch could not win a game with that they can take on and beat anyone in the league. As with so many other things in this life an awful lot of it is about confidence. Edited January 5, 2018 by gdevoy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullitt Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 42 minutes ago, gdevoy said: Exactly. He has convinced virtually the same squad of players as Lee McCulloch could not win a game with that they can take on and beat anyone in the league. As with so many other things in this life an awful lot of it is about confidence. True, confidence is key... I only pull woman when I'm drunk because I'm confident, or at that stage when any hippo will do... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killie1970 Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 Was saying to a Newco supporting workmate of mine, who went in the huff and didn't speak for two days, that he really should get over himself and that beating Newco was on par with beating the likes of Motherwell, St Johnstone etc nowadays. It's the joy of sticking two fingers up to the great deluded supporters that they've inherited that gives Killie fans, and other clubs fans, the greatest joy. They are paying premium prices to watch a tribute act of a club that is consigned to history. It looks like the mindset of Scottish football is changing and apart from Celtic and their spending power, no one fears anyone anymore. Can only be good for the future of the Scottish game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillinger Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 Good read. U never see stuff like this in our mainstream sports coverage. Much better than the pish they print. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
historyman Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 They are exactly that - a bang average team. There are very few of them we would swop for one of ours. Dorrans is probably their best player and he is injured but they are not a team of Laudrups and Gasgoines any more. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dabunias Posted January 6, 2018 Report Share Posted January 6, 2018 6 hours ago, Bullitt said: True, confidence is key... I only pull woman when I'm drunk because I'm confident, or at that stage when any hippo will do... There's only one hippo in these parts and I think a lot of folk would be happy to spend time with a purveyor of fine football stories and editor of a magazine . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chum Posted January 6, 2018 Report Share Posted January 6, 2018 11 hours ago, The Lurker said: This is a very good read. I said to my son the other week during the first half of the Killie v Rangers game that if you took away the massive support and the strips they were playing in, that Rangers team was no different to a Dundee or a Ross County. They were bang average. Perception and psychology goes a long way in Scottish football. https://footballpink.net/2018/01/04/scottish-footballs-crisis-of-confidence/ Magnificent article, and too fkn right as well. It’s time for Scottish football to take it to them and make the league great again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.