Lots of confidence and expectation coming out in the above. For once it's perhaps understandable and, if we were any other club, a state of mind to be encouraged.
However WE ARE ARGYLE. Rightly or wrongly, over confidence and over expectation are our kryptonite, our achilles heel :facepalm:
Not saying in the grand scheme of things we shouldn't look at the forthcoming fixtures with confidence. Just observing that it's always been "typical Argo" to defy expectations with unerring and frustrating frequency.
And frustration could play a big part in this period...
To date the atmosphere at HP has been very good, lots of noise, lots of encouragement, it's largely been a joy to watch Argyle. But compare and contrast that with Pompey's home atmosphere lately...knotted with rampant expectation and the consequent frustration they're home patch has become a poisoned cauldron of jittery nervousness, their results have dropped away accordingly.
There's a warning to be heeded from their experience. Expectancy can breed odd atmospheres, nervy environments that can quickly shift to negative environments.
So far this season over expectancy hasn't troubled our door too much, you just need to read some of this thread however to see this forthcoming period provides a danger of it raising it's ugly head again.
For me, the mindset now should not be looking ahead to Christmas and the new year and counting our points tally already. That's truly a fools errand that ignores the peril of expectancy and Argo's history of defying the conventional wisdom in so called 'easy games'.
No, for me there's a very good slogan that we, both as a team and as it's supporters, need to adopt. A slogan that keeps your feet on the ground, keeps your mind focused on the task and stops you losing your head...
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON
One game at a time we must 'carry on' playing as we've been playing, 'carry on' doing the things what we've been doing ans as fans 'carry on' supporting as loudly and as positively as we've been doing.
Do that and the rest will then take care of itself. The team and the fans have it within themselves to lift each other, to carry each other through.
Don't do that and we could unravel, both the team and the fans also, sadly, have it within themselves to self destruct.
