Odd Grenland has had a poor season in the Obos-ligaen. The club is suffering a mental collapse and it is necessary to find a solution to get back on track. The team has lost games they should have won, including a recent match against Skeid, who are last in the table and have only won one game in the last 18. Odd was roundly beaten by Skeid. What has happened to Odd? High shoulders, poor passing, losing the ball easily in open situations and poor finishing. Even where it was clearly on the cards. A key explanation is to be found in the mental state of the players and the team. I mean it is right to say that both individual players and the entire team have experienced a mental collapse. And I wonder. Does the team even have a mental trainer? It does not look like it. Therefore this article. I have said it before, but I repeat it. Sports psychologist Willy Railo had great success with top athletes a few years ago and his knowledge is still relevant: Thinking around sports. It has an impact on performance. Thinking negatively means giving yourself negative self-instructions. For example, telling yourself 'I must, I should, I have to!'. Cross out such negative self-instructions. Give yourself positive self-instructions instead, such as 'I want, I can, I have the desire and I enjoy it!' Say it so many times that you yourself begin to believe in the self-instruction. Performance threshold. A picture of what this is about: Set that I have the capacity to jump 2.00 meters high, but I never reach higher than 1.80. Then our sports expert says that we should lower our ambition level and tell ourselves that 1.70 is good enough. Then the opportunities to reach 2.00 meters will increase over time. The explanation is simple. If we lower our ambition level, we will get a more relaxed attitude towards what we are doing, so that we can more easily reach our highest ambition level, which is 2.00 meters. Said in a simple way: We must dare to be ourselves, if we are to reach our highest ambition level. The joy of sports. Football should be fun. There is no obligation to play football. It is ultimately a game. We can hardly say that this has been the case for the last few games that ODD has played. But this can change. A place to start is precisely the mental attitude. This must change in the club. It applies to all levels, among players, coaches, leaders and the public. If we can achieve this, much will be done. It is a start. This is my hope for ODD!