Brutal Regime For Blues

[The Bishop]

what's jonny vegas doing with them?

 

[Username]

I do a sit-up every morning
EVERY MORNING

1 situp a day, 365 days a year, that equals .... jesus christ dude you must have abs like ****ing stone.

 

[toffeejack]

distin looks really splecial in that helmet

 

[bluebottle]

Seamus Coleman looks like a satanist.

 

[sanctioned]

Who is not there?

 

[Cena]

Who is not there?

All the Euro lids, Johnny, Jelavic

 

[The T-Dex]

Vellios is too handsome.

 

[Dom1878]

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Truly rigorous.

So he celebrates ping-pong but can barely smile when he scores for Everton? Makes sense!

 

[Dom1878]

Vellios is too handsome.

He needs to play some more games, someone that handsome doesn't deserve to be on the bench

 

[Jacko93]

To be fair, I'm not sure I accept this whole 'training too hard' idea. If you speak to a boxer for example, they will tell you that the regularly push themselves to the absolute limit, then push through it to condition their mind that when their body tells them its tired, they still have plenty left. I would take the same mentality into most atheltic training, as i think it also affect the sports phsycology. IMO both of these factors leads to us scoring fairly regular in the latter stages of games, we don't know when we're beat, likewise, they will keep running till the end and know their body can still give more.

 

[steken1]

To be fair, I'm not sure I accept this whole 'training too hard' idea. If you speak to a boxer for example, they will tell you that the regularly push themselves to the absolute limit, then push through it to condition their mind that when their body tells them its tired, they still have plenty left. I would take the same mentality into most atheltic training, as i think it also affect the sports phsycology. IMO both of these factors leads to us scoring fairly regular in the latter stages of games, we don't know when we're beat, likewise, they will keep running till the end and know their body can still give more.

Plenty of boxers have been beaten by inferior fighters when they have "left it all in the gym" in thier words.

Elite perfromance is about peaking at exactly the right time, something Man Utd have perfected.

 

[Pabbers]

What a fooking life these footballers have. Paid thousands and thousands to run around a 5* Holiday village to get fit as a fiddle, all that so you can play what you have loved since being able to walk.

Thats a dream, not a job !

 

[Neiler]

Its interesting that people feel doing a hard preseason leads to a poor start - tbh i put this down to other varibles.

I often think we finish better then most teams at the end of the season surely this musthave something to do with the conditioning work we do.

 

[Pabbers]

I think we finish so well, because we start so badly.

If we started well, we would not finish well. We just average out !

 

[steken1]

Its interesting that people feel doing a hard preseason leads to a poor start - tbh i put this down to other varibles.

I often think we finish better then most teams at the end of the season surely this musthave something to do with the conditioning work we do.

My own informed opinion is that the amount and type of conditioning done in pre-season is a factor in both poor starts and strong finishes. Other factors IMO are poor opposition and de-motivating outside influences and Moyes own demeanour due to these.

You cannot see the benefits of training at the intensity we do until it's tapered down and people are given proper recovery. This doesn't happen until the season starts is what I've read in the various squad comments made about our pre-season training schedule. This means that for at least 4-6 weeks into the season we arent in ideal physical condition, maybe more as I don't know for certain exactly what it is we do.

At this point we have lost a few, confidence is low and they cycle has started again.

We also get close to the top of the stats league in goals scored late on in games and we are renowned for having excellent scientific support so the fact this cycle has repeated so many times is baffling unless Moyes does see a value in trying to create 'mental toughness' or team building. I'm not saying that's what it is but that's foolhardy in the extreme IMO.