{"id":435886,"date":"2025-09-19T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/435886\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:58:10","slug":"darrell-clarke-colchester-united-is-always-a-tough-place-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/435886\/","title":{"rendered":"Darrell Clarke | Colchester United is always a tough place to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COLCHESTER PREVIEW<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have got a lot of respect for Danny Cowley. He\u2019s a fantastic manager. I know he\u2019s disappointed with his team&#8217;sperformance on Saturday; I\u2019m expecting a hell of a reaction from them, but you have to make sure, while we\u2019re being respectful of that, we also understand that they\u2019re 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. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColchester is always a tough place to go and go over the years, and it has been for me as well. So, we\u2019ll go there, andwe\u2019ve prepared well. We got another good session with the lads this morning, and hopefully, we can put on a decent performance. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE WINNING RUN<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said it last week; momentum is important in football. It builds confidence, it builds a happier environment if you\u2019rewinning games. Personally, the way I try to program my players is that it doesn\u2019t matter. The past only matters if it affects the present, but it\u2019s not going to matter on Saturday at three. None of it counts. That\u2019s the beauty of football at any level, to be honest with you. The clock resets. At three o\u2019clock, it doesn\u2019t matter if you have won the last four, does it? Nobody is interested. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about how you perform here and now, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m pretty consistent with the fact that you\u2019ll 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\u2019clock, that\u2019s where we\u2019ve got to show it again. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy biggest thing is consistency of performance because if you get consistent performances, then the results come. Over the years, this is why teams don\u2019t win 15 on the bounce unless you\u2019re a really good team or have spent millions, because you can\u2019t 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.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brfcdirect.co.uk\/collections\/away-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLCHESTER PREVIEW\u00a0 \u201cI have got a lot of respect for Danny Cowley. He\u2019s a fantastic manager. I know&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-435886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115230612259272751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}