Paisley / Moran / Fagan / Bennett / Saunders / Evans / Kenny ......Interpret the Liverpool way anyway you like mate or call it something different entirely ....all I'm saying is there'll be just as many - if not more - approaching the run-in cautiously / quietly confident and taking one game at a time - as there will be banging the drum and shouting it from the Internet treetops...and it has fuck all to do with cowards logic.......all that matters is that we're all dreaming of the same end to this season...there's more than one way to remove the fur off a feline
I agree, but I think there's three types of people in the conversation, and you're referring to one, I'm referring to another, and Juan Loco was referring to the third set:
The people you are referring to (including yourself) - quietly confident, not too public on our chances, but not dismissing them either; supporting the team whether we win it or not, but naturally cautious about public pronouncements
The people I'm referring to (including me) - publicly confident of a challenge, happy to talk about one, won't be too disappointed if it doesn't come to fruition, but not reserved about talking up how good our team is on its day
The people Juan Loco is referring to (the "cowards logic" people) - people who don't want to talk about any chance of success, who will try to convince all and sundry that the woefully under-performing and under-managed United will win the Champions League thus depriving Liverpool of a CL place, or that Spurs will go on a magical run and kick us out of fourth spot, or that we will lose to all of our "bogey" teams and be scrambling for 4th or 5th on the last day of the season, etc. In other words, the people who don't dare to dream, no matter how they express it - and so consequently try to dampen everyone else's enthusiasm for the season by publicly displaying possible "What if" scenarios that show only negative outcomes for Liverpool.
I don't think the first two sets of people are at loggerheads, and I don't think they are who Juan was referring to. I think he's referring to the third set, who see no hope whatsoever, and want everyone to feel exactly the same. They are the same people in life who spoil the atmosphere at public gatherings - Debbie Downers, in other words. Playing the percentages game in life because it's the easiest way to go about things, and they want to make sure everyone else thinks like they do too.