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I also agree with them & you, but maybe its an age thing, we learn through experience, eventually, not to tempt providence too much:)
but I was reassured by McKenna's presser earlier how he talked about enjoying the journey, the steps along the way, but for the players to focus on themselves & the performance.
so he totally gets it, and will have prepared them to absolutely enjoy it, but absolutely to leave it at the gate and focus on the game in hand.
it was a great speech, almost 20mins long,some of the invited guests werent happy about sitting in the Texas heat for that long having spent a few hours already waiting for him to turn up.
the opening part alone could be replayed in any era, any decade, its timeless
but I always think his closing remarks about George Mallory are the best part, probably because it rarely gets heard, but it sums up the whole point he was making in that speech.
out of his reach ? his net worth is £300million, he sold 3m tickets for his 2022 European tour which grossed £202m.
just think how many shirts we will sell worldwide with his logo&name attached to it in the Premier league.
he's being interviewed on Sky F1 which goes worldwide as the English language F1 provider for those that dont take the F1 official feed, name another sponsor with that kind of outreach for a club at our level ?
I fully expect Huddersfield to score first, it's been the one feature of alot of games at home this season, away side scores first within the first 25mins & Town have to come back from a goal down etc etc. Fortunately we have the experience to know they can comeback from it and don't panic.
Leeds will score of that there's no doubt, depends how much Southampton want to press for a win that is really maybe just about momentum or having a psychological boost if that's who we might expect the ultimate final to be between
Whilst he might have a point 12:30 ko are a pain, his issue is with the Premier League not the broadcaster, Liverpool have the widest supporter base for viewing figures so will always be picked for tv games if they can
Plus they have early kick offs in the French and Italian leagues as well, also shown on TNT as it happens but they don't pick the teams or ko times
But what you are forgetting is the players aren't Huddersfield fans, they don't care about Leeds in the same way or what Huddersfield fans might want given their near certain relegation, and prob don't care who goes up, many of them might be looking for new clubs next season so are in the shop window to impress other clubs and agents.
The perfect opportunity for an agent to say to any club look at this game live on Sky against this near Premiership promoted team that's won so many plaudits...
The funny thing about that game, which was a well deserved victory for them, is I'm surprised more teams haven't tried to play how they did against us.
Exeter was all about the release of 20+ years of having nothing to celebrate, so we were told at the time, the "lost" generation of fans who had never seen any success, bar the playoff semi finals of course.
Town were on roll, confidence was high both previous home games were goal fests as much as Exeter turned out to be.
Norwich was unnecessary imo, no one needs to have extra hype for a derby game, the game itself creates the atmosphere, and I think it adversely affected the way the team played, others are free to disagree, the only positive I think was it made sure the pubs prematch were quiet
We go into this game, we need a positive result, we can't rely on Leeds not winning theirs. We need a normal Saturday, professional game, do the simple stuff well, don't treat it as the 265million pound game, it's just another championship game like the other 45, we don't need fans to be celebrating like the job is done before the game and Huddersfield will just happily play their part for us. Weren't Maidstone supposed to do that in the FA Cup ?
We drew both our last home games, great that will do us, but both games were incredibly tense, close, lots of ifs buts maybes, refs decisions either way, but we could have lost those games very easily, could have won them too.
But do you want to be sitting there like at the Coventry game in the 99th minute holding onto just a draw because the enormity of what the team and the players as individuals are about to achieve, with Huddersfield having a corner, knowing Leeds are winning.
And remember Cardiff away, we'd won that game, we'd already be promoted with those points had we won, instead we end up in the last minute of injury time with at least 4 town players staring at a ball that lands in front of them from a corner and not booting it to row Z and Cardiff react quicker & win
Celebrate when it's done imo, there will be ample time for it.
It's natural because we've all seen games, seasons and tournaments turn around completely, if football was predictable it wouldn't be half as interesting
Last games of the season especially turn up wacky results.
So there are no dead certs or easy games in football, as one former player now beeb pundit once memorably claimed except for playing Ipswich, who found out he was wrong when Town then beat his team in a game he thought he'd win easily.
And yeah I thought the Norwich one did not help the players in the slightest, and created an occasion where they became incredibly nervous at making mistakes as the game wore on, instead of the normal confident selves.
So i just hope McKenna gets them in a bubble mentally prepared to block out any and all distractions like that so they do the job on the pitch they need to do first, and celebrate after
We still need to secure a point to be certain, because you don't want to be sat there in injury time just hoping Leeds don't score a goal to win their game, and we've let in another sloppy early goal from a set piece and find we can't hit the target for love or money.
As then we'd look right proper Charlie's wouldnt we.
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