Bilel Mohsni: Rangers can win every league game

[ian1964 10,780]

I don't agree with this. For a start you are setting yourself up to be a failure, the first time you drop points - what's your target after that? It becomes meaningless and complete failure.

 

Secondly, it means you take the eye off the ball for the real goal and task and messes with your motivation.

 

Thirdly, it can make you desperate and therefore make huge mistakes - imagine someone who tries to equal or break their best lap time in motorsport, in EVERY lap. They'll be pushing so hard that instead of getting a good result they are likely to crash almost every race. It's not quite the same in football but there are similarities. We always need to leave room for error and off days.

 

Just think of the pressure of golf and how many have succumbed to it - most famously Colin Montgomery, who never won a major even though he once just needed two bogeys in the last two holes to do it.

 

We should start every game with the aim of winning but aiming to win every game should not be an issue. Winning the league comfortably is a good enough aim instead. If we win every game then that is just a bonus that you look back on, not forward to.

 

It sounds easy enough if you have the best team but how come in 130 years of football, it's only been done once in the world? And that was a very short season of only 18 games.

 

Celtic have already failed in the last two seasons despite having no competition.

 

I'm simply saying you go out to win every game,no?

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I'm simply saying you go out to win every game,no?

 

It's not so simple a statement as it has two possible meanings. I agree with one meaning but not the other. I actually thought my post explained it...

[der Berliner 3,885]

We should. We wont.

 

4 games 4 wins +18 goal difference, wont be long before this season starts to wear thin and the players let themselves down with a poor attitude to a game resulting in a draw or a defeat.

 

36 games is too many to play with a 100% or even undefeated when there is a lack of real competition to motivate them.

 

Not bashing the players or the manager. Thats just how it is.

 

That said, only one other Rangers team ever managed a feat of winning all league games within a season, roundabout 1920/21 methinks. These current lads can write themselves into the record books too.

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That said, only one other Rangers team ever managed a feat of winning all league games within a season, roundabout 1920/21 methinks. These current lads can write themselves into the record books too.

 

As said, it was only 18 games which although an amazing feat, would be incredibly difficult to match in a 36 game league. We're definitely capable of it but it would mean an incredible run of form and luck. That Rangers team did not do it twice in a row...

[Gribz 966]

I don't agree with this. For a start you are setting yourself up to be a failure, the first time you drop points - what's your target after that? It becomes meaningless and complete failure.

 

Secondly, it means you take the eye off the ball for the real goal and task and messes with your motivation.

 

Thirdly, it can make you desperate and therefore make huge mistakes - imagine someone who tries to equal or break their best lap time in motorsport, in EVERY lap. They'll be pushing so hard that instead of getting a good result they are likely to crash almost every race. It's not quite the same in football but there are similarities. We always need to leave room for error and off days.

 

Just think of the pressure of golf and how many have succumbed to it - most famously Colin Montgomery, who never won a major even though he once just needed two bogeys in the last two holes to do it.

 

We should start every game with the aim of winning but aiming to win every game should not be an issue. Winning the league comfortably is a good enough aim instead. If we win every game then that is just a bonus that you look back on, not forward to.

 

It sounds easy enough if you have the best team but how come in 130 years of football, it's only been done once in the world? And that was a very short season of only 18 games.

 

Celtic have already failed in the last two seasons despite having no competition.

 

Ian was spot on when he said you should go out looking to win every game. That is the philosophy Id have as a manager, none of this playing for a draw nonsense.

 

If you drop points then you should then re-group and be going for the maximum possible AFTER that. Its obvious a team isn't going to go through a season winning every game but it should still be the target. Really not sure where you get the idea it would make you desperate and start making mistakes, that's bad planning and management for me....