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2nd Half Meltdown

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  • 27-07-2010 7:36pm
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    glenjamin
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    I'm managing Boro in my second season, doing pretty well, 3rd in the Prem. Thing is though I'm always destroying teams in the 1st half then getting destroyed myself in the 2nd. The amount of 3-0 and 2-0 leads I've blown after being 3 or 2 up in the first half is unreal.

    The only things that I think I may be doing wrong is my half time team talk (1 or 2-0 up and I use 'pleased', 3-0 up - 'thrilled', or drawing or winning but playing sh!t - 'for the fans'). Or it could be my 2nd half tactics. I usually wouldn't change anything till the 75th minute at the very least.

    Anyone ever been through this themselves?


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    brian__foley
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    glenjamin wrote: »
    I'm managing Boro in my second season, doing pretty well, 3rd in the Prem. Thing is though I'm always destroying teams in the 1st half then getting destroyed myself in the 2nd. The amount of 3-0 and 2-0 leads I've blown after being 3 or 2 up in the first half is unreal.

    The only things that I think I may be doing wrong is my half time team talk (1 or 2-0 up and I use 'pleased', 3-0 up - 'thrilled', or drawing or winning but playing sh!t - 'for the fans'). Or it could be my 2nd half tactics. I usually wouldn't change anything till the 75th minute at the very least.

    Anyone ever been through this themselves?

    In FM 2008 and 2009 (as far as I've gone) I never found it helpful to tell my team during a match that I was happy with them. Effort just drops. Very noticeable in pre-season friendlies where you'd play Abingdon Town for fun. The match could go 6-0 and if at half-time I'd be "pleased" it would stay 6-0. If I didn't want performance to drop or was encouraging, the deluge would continue. Invariably against such rubbish in pre-season a positive team-talk (for me) meant less effort in second half.


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    glenjamin
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    So what you're saying is that I should tell them... :confused:


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    brian__foley
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    glenjamin wrote: »
    So what you're saying is that I should tell them... :confused:

    Tell them whatever it takes which given the options open to you is not likely to encourage complacency. Since the options change game to game and, indeed, since the individual player options are sometimes different to the team options all I can say is that if you tell someone the equivalent of "job well done" half way through a job its possible they take the foot off the pedal.


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    wahmeister666
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    I tell them a half time that "I expect a win" or "nothing less than a win" or not to be complacent...as complacency tends to happen to me if I don't do that...usually between the 65th to 90th minute I'd have lost a lead of 2 or 3,but since going with this strict attitude,I'm doing well.


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    Max Power1
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    wahmeister666 wrote: »
    I tell them a half time that "I expect a win" or "nothing less than a win" or not to be complacent...as complacency tends to happen to me if I don't do that...usually between the 65th to 90th minute I'd have lost a lead of 2 or 3,but since going with this strict attitude,I'm doing well.
    +1
    I never use "pleased" or that unless its at least 3 or 4 goals to the good and im taking off star players to rest already.


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