(01-17-2023, 02:35 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote: So, pretty much everyone outside of Duval County gives us no chance this week.  That includes national media.

Cracking! The more they write us off the happier I'll be, anything Doug can use to get in the minds of the players.. Get it all in the board, every little helps...

Brings to mind a story about a football manager over here, Alex Ferguson, who In the late 1980's was managing Aberdeen (regional Scottish side) and took them to a European cup final where they were playing Real Madrid (most successful side in europe) ... Aberdeen were enormous underdogs so before the final Ferguson asked another great manager Jock Stein if he had any ideas... Stein thought for a moment and said, 'when you get over there present the Real Madrid manager with a present, make him think you're just happy to be there' ... Ferguson did as he was told, played up to the press like Lawrence Olivier in Hamlet and when they arrived in Gothenburg for the final presented the Real manager with a superb bottle of Scotch whisky and had the Aberdeen players present the Madrid players with flowers! 

Now, the sharper members of the board will have seen where this was going quite so time ago ... But suffice to say when the game kicked off Madrid were caught cold, and Aberdeen won 2-1 ... I suppose the moral of the story being
Doug's a sharp cookie, and being underdog suits us fine so anything and everything we can use to put them off their stride I'll take ... On a 53 man roster you'll always find a few who's head you can get in!

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