How important is strong mentality in football?

[goodisonopheliac]

Maybe we should take all our players on one of those SAS courses and bin off all the players who couldn't hack it.
The only player I would be confident about is Seamus

And Pickford, except he might go mad and try to knife one of his team mates.

 

[Khalekan]

A strong mentality is important in all walks of life, not just football.

 

[Seathestars]

Just look at Citeh, fantastic footballers and a fantastic collective mentality

 

[TraffordBlue]

Maybe we should take all our players on one of those SAS courses and bin off all the players who couldn't hack it.
The only player I would be confident about is Seamus

Seamus has been part of a bottling team mentality for a decade. He's been great for us over the years but time and time again we've heard him come out and say how the players let themselves down and they need to put it right. Same with Jagielka and others.

Digne and Gana for me.

 

[TraffordBlue]

A strong mentality is important in all walks of life, not just football.

Very true.

Sadly lacking in this Everton side, and is the reason why we are 8th.

To not come back from behind at any point in the season to go on and win a game is pathetic, and just shows how mentally weak we are. That needs to be put right in the summer with some additions where the player mentality is different to what we currently have.

 

[Eggs]

It's the most important thing

...it’s a fair point. There’s lots of very talented footballers who don’t come through because they lack attitude, and there’s lots of ordinary footballers who come through because they have attitude.

I always refer to it as ‘playing like the game matters’. It’s something Brands should ask in respect of any player we consider acquiring.

 

[goodisonopheliac]

It's not just us. It's every team who aren't Spurs, Liverpool or Man City. If mentality is all it takes, then an awful lot of footballers are going to have to be sent to army camps and be told to fight each other or whatever it is these SAS training sessions do, because there's a major deficit between them and everyone else.

Jags and Coleman have to say that stuff to the press. They can't exactly say, "We're rubbish."

 

[Yarrgh]

Seamus has been part of a bottling team mentality for a decade. He's been great for us over the years but time and time again we've heard him come out and say how the players let themselves down and they need to put it right. Same with Jagielka and others.

Digne and Gana for me.

If he'd been part of a winning team, then Coleman would not have been found wanting. A career in a team of serial failure has done for him now I'm afraid.

 

[goodisonopheliac]

Also, what's all this talk about fancy dans? If it's a dig at foreigners, how do you explain Liverpool, City and Spurs? All managed by foreigners, all captained by foreigners except Liverpool, all have foreign goalies, most of their best players are foreign.