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The reason I ask the question is we have, a Cup Final Shirt, a Cup Final Song, Cup Final suits for the players. Constant talk of "ending that song" & Radders picking his team unusually early.

ATEOD it is just 80 minutes of rugby, nothing more, nothing less. I'm not privy to Wire's build up, but it seems a lot has gone in to making it an occasion. I have faith in Radford, I've paid the £49 to buy the shirt I may only wear once, but something about not treating it as "Just another game" worries me.


Though I hope I'm wrong.
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I doubt it. We'll probably lose but I still think we'll put in a decent performance
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I remember Leeds going into a cup match i think with pink hair for a cancer charity, it was enough of a distraction for them to be absolutely god-awful. They were laughing and joking and totally unfocussed and lost the gae in the first 15-20minutes.
We don't need 'gimmicks', we don't need a 'have to put past wrongs right and win at wembley' ethos or any other mantra. We just need execute the game plan, don't panic, play to our strengths, keep them under the cosh and aim to hit your 5 or 10 minute targets.

I'd rather it be an underwhelming build up than one with all the bunting but ATEOTD if we win then it's all irrelevant, if we get kiboshed in the first 20min, play catch up rugby and lose then questions could be asked about mental preparation. We could of course come from behind, win, smash the wembley hoo-doo, get totally out of hand delerious in celebration and still question our mental preparation.

Minute one focus and no silly penalties and I think we'll be alright :D
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Paranoia.

Cup final shirts are often stitched with the match details.

The players have had nothing to do with the 'remix' of the song.

All clubs issue clothes to their sqaud.

Radders has fielded the inevitable questions about our Wembley history.

Most coaches select their team a ferw days before a game.
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ComeOnYouUll wrote:
Paranoia.

Cup final shirts are often stitched with the match details.

The players have had nothing to do with the 'remix' of the song.

All clubs issue clothes to their sqaud.

Radders has fielded the inevitable questions about our Wembley history.

Most coaches select their team a ferw days before a game.


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ComeOnYouUll wrote:
Paranoia.

Cup final shirts are often stitched with the match details.

The players have had nothing to do with the 'remix' of the song.

All clubs issue clothes to their sqaud.

Radders has fielded the inevitable questions about our Wembley history.

Most coaches select their team a ferw days before a game.


This. Nail on the head.
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All of those things are either not unusual or nothing to do with the playing squad. Hope they're on social media ban for next few days, we're a much better squad than in 2013 and have shown much better attitude through the season across the squad. I don't get some fans acting like beating Wire is simply a formality but that won't mean much to the playing squad, they know they have to be at their best.
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People always say this kind of thing but all that is being done in the end is that the fans are being revved up by all these little bits of build up and anticipation. Can only help to create an even more intense atmosphere in the stadium, really give it a party atmosphere which will hopefully rev up the players even more as well.
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We'll win or we'll get beat.
It'll be nowt to do with being mentaliy unprepared or lacking focus.
Give it our best shot like every team probably has contesting a Wembley final with our fair share of lady luck and it'll hopefully be enough to get us over the line.
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The whole point of picking the team early was to take the uncertainty out of it all and to enable those not picked to have their role in the week identified and to have all that settled early. good move for me! It looks like the waving off is been kept low key and the week in training to Thursday is identical to their now settled weekly preparations. Looking back on some other Wembley's this has all been pretty low key for me.
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