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Draws with Liverpool, City and Chelsea. Narrow (and arguably undeserved) defeats against Spurs and United.

Complete capitulation against almost everyone else.

Following on from the “bottle” theme, it’s almost like the players don’t believe they can compete with most teams in the league, especially the ones they need to. They’re happy playing the underdog against the big boys but fall to pieces when there’s any actual hope or expectation on them.

They really are bottlers.
(12-29-2020, 08:32 PM)Duffers Wrote: [ -> ]Draws with Liverpool, City and Chelsea. Narrow (and arguably undeserved) defeats against Spurs and United.

Complete capitulation against almost everyone else.

Following on from the “bottle” theme, it’s almost like the players don’t believe they can compete with most teams in the league, especially the ones they need to. They’re happy playing the underdog against the big boys but fall to pieces when there’s any actual hope or expectation on them.

They really are bottlers.

Yep perfectly put bud should be fined 2weeks wages for that performance alone.
It’s this.

No bottle whatsoever. Couldn’t handle the pressure last season and as soon as there’s expectation this season they generally bottle it.

Like the relegated teams that start winning when there’s an R against their name, no pressure or expectation football.

Wankers.
We are so mentally fragile it beggers belief and we've been like this since Jan, they did almost everything possible to blow promotion 13ptn lead at one point and barely stumbled over the line, let's not kid ourselves this is all of a sudden a new phenomenon.
(12-29-2020, 09:17 PM)TETLEY74 Wrote: [ -> ]We are so mentally fragile it beggers belief and we've been like this since Jan, they did almost everything possible to blow promotion 13ptn lead at one point and barely stumbled over the line, let's not kid ourselves this is all of a sudden a new phenomenon.

Correct. Unfortunately this doesn't have seem to have ever been questioned.
(12-29-2020, 09:17 PM)TETLEY74 Wrote: [ -> ]We are so mentally fragile it beggers belief and we've been like this since Jan, they did almost everything possible to blow promotion 13ptn lead at one point and barely stumbled over the line, let's not kid ourselves this is all of a sudden a new phenomenon.

Correct. We have been like this for a long time - especially the likes of Gibbs, Phillips and Livermore. We haven’t had an on pitch leader since Fletcher and it really shows