Quote: NickyKiss "There was certainly no master plan and no purposeful defeats but the lads quite clearly struggled to lift themselves for the games that didn't mean a great deal due to our great start to the season.
I think that's the thing though, I felt we weren't playing well because we just lacked that little bit of motivation as opposed to us just being off form. We certainly weren't throwing games but the energy wasn't there in the big moments.
I always felt that could come back and it has.'"
Well I am very much in the loss of form camp as I am sure you can tell and as I said credit to Wane for turning that around. A reason I am is I don't think both Smith and Greens performances, (for example which were sub standard and certainly contributed to losses), after they came back from injury were poor because they lacked motivation.
It may well be that Wane said after a loss its not the end of the world as we have points in the bag but equally I don't think his comments to the press after a loss expressing his frustrations were a con trick or spin. It's just not in his nature IMO.