Eccles Blue
Well-Known Member
I've just started reading Vincent Kompany's 'Treble Triumph' book and one section jumped out at me which might cast a sort of light on this season, he was talking about being concerned about motivation for last season after our Centurion season:
"It wasn't that we as players didn't want to win any more, it's just that there seems to be something inside every human being that changes after a big success, which is understandable, The tendency is to be more relaxed. That feeling comes from knowing what you've achieved.
When you get to a certain level you can get into a comfort zone that you don't want to be in because the other guys, your rivals and your opponents, could then want it more than you. That's not how or why we become successful in the first place." (pge 11)
Just a thought on how this season has progressed. Maybe they are missing VK even more than we realised (yes I know lots of people have said we are missing him but.....)
KDB's foreword to the book is good reading as well. I think KDB would make a great leader, never as good as VK (or Dunnie) but a good replacement. (As @karen7 will tell you no one replaces the Legend that is VK or the Dunnie Monster in my world!!!) :-)
"It wasn't that we as players didn't want to win any more, it's just that there seems to be something inside every human being that changes after a big success, which is understandable, The tendency is to be more relaxed. That feeling comes from knowing what you've achieved.
When you get to a certain level you can get into a comfort zone that you don't want to be in because the other guys, your rivals and your opponents, could then want it more than you. That's not how or why we become successful in the first place." (pge 11)
Just a thought on how this season has progressed. Maybe they are missing VK even more than we realised (yes I know lots of people have said we are missing him but.....)
KDB's foreword to the book is good reading as well. I think KDB would make a great leader, never as good as VK (or Dunnie) but a good replacement. (As @karen7 will tell you no one replaces the Legend that is VK or the Dunnie Monster in my world!!!) :-)