2025/26 Merlin Röhl

[Swartzy]

Well you are wrong Zat, my background is Sports Science and the nature of Branthwaites injuries and the time out he has had with those injuries would suggest it is. Both players are injury prone mate and yes in an ideal world we would move both on but I think people need to forget the idea of big money fees for Branthwaite, id be surprised if any club offers silly money anymore.

The club is calling. Well, the fans are.
If that is your background, than please go and shake up the department we currently have.

 

[Simon Buttle]

The club is calling. Well, the fans are.
If that is your background, than please go and shake up the department we currently have.

I did actually apply for a role there a couple of years back but never got very far as they were looking for someone from within top level of the game. I'm now quite bored with my current job (University based) and am doing night school to retrain as a plumber, I can earn 3 times what I get now as I live in the best area for it.

 

[Swartzy]

I did actually apply for a role there a couple of years back but never got very far as they were looking for someone from within top level of the game. I'm now quite bored with my current job (University based) and am doing night school to retrain as a plumber, I can earn 3 times what I get now as I live in the best area for it.

Fair play mate, hope all goes well.

 

[COYBL25]

I did actually apply for a role there a couple of years back but never got very far as they were looking for someone from within top level of the game. I'm now quite bored with my current job (University based) and am doing night school to retrain as a plumber, I can earn 3 times what I get now as I live in the best area for it.

My lads old rugby coach is part of the U23`s strength and conditioning set up for our lads, he`d previously been at Palace, Newcastle, Liverpool and Man Utd.

As you know it`s incredibly difficult to get a job at the top level, a new manager comes in and quite often gives all of the old staff the boot, so the job security is pretty tenuous.

Plus, you constantly have to keep yourself up to date with what`s going on or you become a dinosaur very quickly.

Virtually everyone I know from a sports science background, eventually moved into something else, mainly because they couldn`t get jobs !

 

[Zatara]

Well you are wrong Zat, my background is Sports Science and the nature of Branthwaites injuries and the time out he has had with those injuries would suggest it is. Both players are injury prone mate and yes in an ideal world we would move both on but I think people need to forget the idea of big money fees for Branthwaite, id be surprised if any club offers silly money anymore.

I think with Branthwaite if he comes back and consistently performs from February onwards we'll see enquiries in the summer.

This time I think we'll be fine with him but its definitely at the point where a £70mil bid should be accepted.

With Rohl id like us to just get the money back from somewhere. Paying in summer and selling instantly gives us PSR room too.

 

[Simon Buttle]

My lads old rugby coach is part of the U23`s strength and conditioning set up for our lads, he`d previously been at Palace, Newcastle, Liverpool and Man Utd.

As you know it`s incredibly difficult to get a job at the top level, a new manager comes in and quite often gives all of the old staff the boot, so the job security is pretty tenuous.

Plus, you constantly have to keep yourself up to date with what`s going on or you become a dinosaur very quickly.

Virtually everyone I know from a sports science background, eventually moved into something else, mainly because they couldn`t get jobs !

Its an incredibly difficult thing to get into tbh, it might sound mad but I wouldn't recommend it too anyone in fairness and in hindsight I wish id done Sports Therapy as if you can't into sport you can get an NHS/private practice job fairly easily. I was very lucky when I finished in that I got on well with my tutors and they asked me and one of the others if we wanted too stay on and be researchers/PA's to the main lecturers doing all the boring stuff that they couldn't be arsed doing basically.
I don't regret it but given the cutbacks with Uni's in recent years my role has changed quite a bit and its more like a student support worker for lazy students these days and I'm bored with it now. I picked the plumbing thing as down here is the best area of the country in terms of what they charge and I'm only looking at doing small jobs like leaks, taps, showers, drains, baths, that sort of thing but not full on boiler installations. I already have a bit of a side thing going on doing some gardening/small scale landscaping so if I don't decide too go full on into the plumbing thing I can get a maintenance job somewhere (I like fixing things in general tbh) We will see what happens, but yeah Sports Science is a bit of a dead end I do agree mate.