Maybe its like the 5 stages, he started us off believing we were real underdogs, really not worth much and slowly built up the team confidence, then he nurtured a they are better than us but we can overcome that with our self belief and our spirit and our determination and our steelines. The next 2-3 stages just involve making us world beaters :P
Seriously though perhaps initially it was to dampen expectations, and thats why he was saying it. Now they have evolved he is less concentrating on the negative(them and us) and more on the positives(us).
Either way, the lads have to stop thinking they are inferior to these average teams and start breeding a winning mentality. We have international quality players to a good, decent standard and our results are showing that. Lets start acting like that. It's not a negative YOP, its actually a positive im trying to draw on. I'm not settling for the auld Irish lets be just happy with our lot.
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