COLCHESTER PREVIEW
“I have got a lot of respect for Danny Cowley. He’s a fantastic manager. I know he’s disappointed with his team’sperformance on Saturday; I’m expecting a hell of a reaction from them, but you have to make sure, while we’re being respectful of that, we also understand that they’re a little bit wounded. So, we have to make sure that we are in the right frame of mind and have the right mentality to approach this game to try and continue our form.
“Colchester is always a tough place to go and go over the years, and it has been for me as well. So, we’ll go there, andwe’ve prepared well. We got another good session with the lads this morning, and hopefully, we can put on a decent performance.
THE WINNING RUN
“I said it last week; momentum is important in football. It builds confidence, it builds a happier environment if you’rewinning games. Personally, the way I try to program my players is that it doesn’t matter. The past only matters if it affects the present, but it’s not going to matter on Saturday at three. None of it counts. That’s the beauty of football at any level, to be honest with you. The clock resets. At three o’clock, it doesn’t matter if you have won the last four, does it? Nobody is interested.
“It’s about how you perform here and now, and that’s why I’m pretty consistent with the fact that you’ll never crack football. You have just got to try and keep yourself level-headed and just working towards that next game, and at three o’clock, that’s where we’ve got to show it again.
“My biggest thing is consistency of performance because if you get consistent performances, then the results come. Over the years, this is why teams don’t win 15 on the bounce unless you’re a really good team or have spent millions, because you can’t think the game owes you anything. You have got to be right at it every time, and different challenges come through the course of that game. It will be exactly the same on Saturday against Colchester.”