Stop Crying Your Heart Out Rodri Banner

edinburgh123 said:
I have never heard such shit as it motivated them. To do what? In their huddle were they saying “right come on lads - that banner is a disgrace. We will show them. Let’s get ourselves into a losing position with five minutes to go and then make them gift us two goals”. They won because we gave them two goals. If we hadn’t done that we win the game and then the banner is no motivation. Because of the result they could say that at the end
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Yes, RM finally agreed the banner was the decisive reason why they would go up a level in the last 10 minutes...
 
alib said:
I thought that it was a bad idea as soon as I heard about it - it was very petty and probably gave Madrid their team talk and extra motivation?
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It's a champions league knockout game, they didn't need motivation.
And if they did it didn't really work, we were the better side 1st half.
 
alib said:
I thought that it was a bad idea as soon as I heard about it - it was very petty and probably gave Madrid their team talk and extra motivation?
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Call me old fashioned but if Real Madrid needed motivating by a banner to beat us at our place in a knockout match in the Champions League then there's something wrong with them.
 
Bluesince1979 said:
Yeah i get it, i just felt it came across a bit gloaty and it didnt have to
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It's like 'Tearing cockneys apart...again....' Win the game - then gloat - albeit the banner did not cause Madrid to anticipate being in the right place for two Xmas and birthday gifts rolled into one in the dying minutes and seconds. Mbappe did his best to miskick his goal that floated in like a balloon.
 
Shit!!

I better cancel the "Our Shiek is better than your Sheik" and "There's only one top striker and he wears blue" banners I ordered for Saturday's match!
 
As I understood it, the banner was making a point entirely independent of the game, and indeed of whether Real Madrid are a better side than us or not. It related to an award that had been given fair and square, without fear nor favour, in the recent past. It had to be displayed at the game because that was the biggest platform for a riposte that was richly called for, from at least someone at the club, and which of course hadn't been given by anyone at the club, so had to be taken in hand by a section of the supporters — namely, that Real behaved like utter mardarses over a trophy that they had decided in advance was due one of their players. People on here talk about Arsenal level of entitlement. Real's level of entitlement is out of the stratosphere by comparison. Some journalists in Brazil even played the race card. Fuck them!
I had no strong feelings in favour of the banner, nor against it. Just thank Christ the supporters can still express themselves in this anesthetised, hygienised environment that is modern football!
 
skillman said:
Call me old fashioned but if Real Madrid needed motivating by a banner to beat us at our place in a knockout match in the Champions League then there's something wrong with them.
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There is something wrong with Madrid - elite, young, athletic megabucks players coached by an elite coach. Four hard games a season in La Liga - the rest roll over - no hard game fatigue. La Liga helps the Spanish clubs in Europe. Despite all that they only finished eleventh in the CL - no mitigating factors unlike us playing in an ultra demanding league where the lesser clubs/sides have a go. To me, they look like a side that can be got at - a side that's trying to shoehorn Mbappe and VJR into the same eleven - two players doing similar stuff. To me you need a bricklayer and a good builders labourer - if you have a bricklayer carrying the bricks he's wasting his skill. For as long as those two play in the same side - each has to give up something.
 
Bluesince1979 said:
You dont think it was mentioned ? You dont think they said “let ram that banner up their arses!” ?
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Personally, no. If it's just (or mainly) a banner that gets them motivated to win a football match then they would never win games.
 
The Narcissist is still biting.

Also known as pathological narcissism, narcissistic personality disorder involves a pattern of self-centered, arrogant thinking and behavior, a lack of empathy and consideration for other people, and an excessive need for admiration.

 
edinburgh123 said:
I have never heard such shit as it motivated them. To do what? In their huddle were they saying “right come on lads - that banner is a disgrace. We will show them. Let’s get ourselves into a losing position with five minutes to go and then make them gift us two goals”. They won because we gave them two goals. If we hadn’t done that we win the game and then the banner is no motivation. Because of the result they could say that at the end
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This^^^
 
edinburgh123 said:
I have never heard such shit as it motivated them. To do what? In their huddle were they saying “right come on lads - that banner is a disgrace. We will show them. Let’s get ourselves into a losing position with five minutes to go and then make them gift us two goals”. They won because we gave them two goals. If we hadn’t done that we win the game and then the banner is no motivation. Because of the result they could say that at the end
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Annoyed by a drawing :)
 
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