Disagree with the 1st post.
It’s a cliche but it’s usually “the next game that is the most important”.
Regards our season I have a feeling that the most significant wins we’ve had this season are Villa at home and the last 2 against Derby and Blackburn. ‘Belief” and “confidence” have a huge affect regards improving performance.
We’ve had a good season to date but the pattern seems to be that we’re very consistent at beating the bottom half teams But we’re also consistent at losing to the play off contenders because we’re not quite good enough.
The Derby game was a do or die match, some of our fans had almost written off our play-off chances. When they equalised with the free kick the alarm bells could have rang for the players and fans. Negativity could have kicked in and we could have meekly given up.....however we cranked it up and looked powerful and convincing against a team expected to finish in the play-offs.
Really believe that beating Derby gave the whole club (players, fans and Wilder) a huge psychological lift.
Then at home to Blackburn we’re down to 10 men and up against it, with Blackburn starting to control possession. We showed fight and determination, then when BR went down to 10 men we cranked up the pressure again and ended up with a comfortable and convincing win.
Again the Blackburn win will give the players a big psychological lift that when a game is drifting away facing adversity, just stick in there because a match is over 90 minutes and fortunes can change.
