Scared Stiff Of Losing

[Rene Artois]

When you are afraid of losing, you’ll never win!
Too late for tomorrow’s game.
But! Throw your dreadful tactics & formation in the bin.
Yes, we must have a level of respect for our opponents, but let’s get at and in to them.
Let’s be a problem for them.
Let them worry about us!
Critical stage of the season!

https://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/news/2024/january/-player-post-tamworth-reaction-from-jimmy-dean/

[Sanfran49]

Do not understand the logic when we set up to deal with opponents – I call it targeting. We should play a formation and make them cope with us. Watching passing by some irritates greatly. Receive the ball, control the ball and pass the ball accurately and at pace.

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[MK Iron]

Jimmy is falling into the Wilcox trap. Don’t lose and you win the league.

Didn’t work then and isn’t working now.

17 games with far and away the best squad of footballers. Go beat all 17 of them.

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Rene Artois

[Deereyme66]

He looks scared / anxious. Maybe it rubs off?

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Rene Artois

[Rene Artois]

After watching Jimbob’s pregame ( v Rushall Olympic) thoughts, I think we are in trouble today.

He lacks confidence, is nervous, edgy, unsure of himself. He doesn’t inspire and is monotonal. He lacks belief.

https://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/news/2024/february/-player-team-news-and-views-from-jimmy-dean-ahead-of-rushall-olympic-clash/

When we feel stress, the small capillaries on the skin surface tend to fill and cause redness and itchiness on the nose. Thus, we tend to rub the itch. Touching the nose is a pacifying behaviour to relieve stress.

Any sort of neck rubbing, hair playing, face touching, or hand fidgeting is a sign of subconscious nervousness.

Folded arms…
Expressionless face…
Monotonal voice…

We’re going to struggle!

PLAY TO WIN!

[Dubai fan]

Absolute tosh. Interviews are no different from earlier in the season when we were scoring for fun and raking in the points

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[64]

Wasn’t he off work when we were scoring for fun?

[Rene Artois]

Dubai fan wrote:

Absolute tosh. Interviews are no different from earlier in the season when we were scoring for fun and raking in the points

Why aren’t we doing that now?

[Northumbiron]

MK Iron wrote:

Jimmy is falling into the Wilcox trap. Don’t lose and you win the league.

Didn’t work then and isn’t working now.

Did work then. The problem is that there’s only one automatic promotion spot in this league!

[Gurnelista]

Rene Artois wrote:

After watching Jimbob’s pregame ( v Rushall Olympic) thoughts, I think we are in trouble today.

He lacks confidence, is nervous, edgy, unsure of himself. He doesn’t inspire and is monotonal. He lacks belief.

https://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/news/2024/february/-player-team-news-and-views-from-jimmy-dean-ahead-of-rushall-olympic-clash/

When we feel stress, the small capillaries on the skin surface tend to fill and cause redness and itchiness on the nose. Thus, we tend to rub the itch. Touching the nose is a pacifying behaviour to relieve stress.

Any sort of neck rubbing, hair playing, face touching, or hand fidgeting is a sign of subconscious nervousness.

Folded arms…
Expressionless face…
Monotonal voice…

Far too general and straight from the pop science books.

So-called ‘body language’ is much more complicated.

Nose touching and fidgeting in general can be caused by any number of things – from lying, to the stress of knowing you’re on air/camera/mike.

It’s the same with a monotonous voice. Interestingly, a lot of sportsmen have this – just listen to some interviews Radio 5, etc. Interestingly, it’s often associated with autism, which in turn is associated with the kind of extreme focus and dedication commonly found among sportsmen and women.

Folded arms? It can just mean the person is comfortable and focussed, although most are too quick to associate it with defensiveness and lack of confidence.

So, just because someone interviews badly, it doesn’t make them a bad manager. Take Marcelo Bielsa – he’s managed and is managing the best, as well as Leeds. Conversely, some talk a good game but fail as managers. We’ve all heard them – up there preaching, full of self-confident BS before the wheels come off. Then again, nearly all managerial careers end in failure, just like political ones really, eh?

[Iron-awe]

64 wrote:

Wasn’t he off work when we were scoring for fun?

You clearly don’t read this board enough or have the attention of a goldfish, keep up FFS.

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Awaywego

[Iron Age]

I do wish he’d stop picking his nose though.

[64]

I guess not ,is it not true ?It was on the internet somewhere,it must be

[Rene Artois]

We’re full time.
I think all of the others are part time?
Why aren’t we out of sight?

We might have six training sessions a week (no midweek game).
They’ll probably have two training sessions a week.
Shouldn’t we be fitter, faster, stronger, technically & tactically better than them?

Why are we getting it so wrong!

[Deereyme66]

Some bloke on the Facebook page reckons ‘we are made up of mainly non lge quality players brought in for free or low cost’. Erm…

[Sanfran49]

Comment after comment and most say the same. No urgency and on many occasions lack of interest.

This club had a reputation that no matter what level opponent we faced this club gave 100% and did not not quit. Now we pay too much attention to what the opposition will do our attitude should be for them having to cope with us. 1 up 11 minutes plus added time going defensive is fatal and proved yet again.

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