Just wondering

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Isn't a lot of that due to poor morale, a lack of confidence within the squad as a whole and a general nervousness Teams who are generally on a bad run of defeats seem like there bickering, not a unit etc.

If you look at Hulls best 2 performances of late (Leeds at home and HKR away) they both came in games where they looked like taking a real pasting and seemed to loose the inhibitions and more or less said F*** it and suddenly looked as tho they were expansive and flowing.

They seem to me to be sacred witless of making a mistake and as such make loads, this then means they need to defend more and the confidence is so low that it takes the other team to 'take there foot off the gas' to allow FC to get some confidence flowing.

I personally don't think your that bad a team and should definitely have made the 8 this year with the squad you have (even with the injuries), the underlying thing I think that gives the team the nervousness and fundamentl lack of confidence is the negative vobe that seems to surroun the team. There never seems to be a news report that doesn;t somehow mention the atrocious injuries, players not getting in the country, lack of pivots, new players coming in to replace current ones, and a lot of this is prematch. All this does it tell the players taking the pitch they're not good enough before they've lifted a finger.

If you flip this and look at Wakey, who had some serious set backs yet seemed to perform better the worse it got. Hull need to get a backs to the wall mentality driven into them (this must come from the coach) and use adversity to drive them on, not to use it as an excuse in waiting.