24-05-2019, 11:03 AM
(24-05-2019, 10:41 AM)JasperĀ Scarrott Wrote: I would swap 'good football' and losing for grinding out 3 points.
Remember Warburton? He sides played some nice football but most of the time there was nothing to show for it'
I want points on the board and I was us at the top of the table, I really don't care how we do it.
"good football" and having the ability to grind out results are one and the same thing.
Becoming a team that is hard to beat, a facet that all good teams display regardless of the level they are playing at, totally depends on having a team ethos that every single player buys into.
There is not a team in the Championship who goes out and plays free flowing football week after week; the ones who attempt to, like Norwich and Leeds did, soon have teams wanting to bring them down a peg or two.
As with Norwich and Leeds, teams react quite differently to being put under pressure; Norwich manged fine, Leeds blew up.
I am guessing, but I would think that it is easier to develop that kind of mind set into a team and then encourage the attractive football, than it is to do it the other way round.
I hope that is the case because that is what it looks like MoN has been doing so far; the football has been dire at times but we certainly look hard to beat.
