*Official* English Football Season 2009-2010

[GIMH]

They should get over it IMO

 

[Matteh]

Need to shave a couple of teams off IMHO, but the clubs will never ok it because turkeys don't vote for Xmas.

Makes sense, the Bundesliga has 18 teams.

They shaved 4 teams off over a couple of years around 95' ish though didn't they? (The year Bolton/Boro went up but there was no playoffs iirc). 20's a perfect number for the Premier League for mine. 38 games > 46 games.
If they wanted a Winter break, they'd have factored it in around then. As it is, it's just softcock players moaning that they have to work for their Hundred Thousand $$$ per week.

 

[sledger]

Makes sense, the Bundesliga has 18 teams.

They shaved 4 teams off over a couple of years around 95' ish though didn't they? (The year Bolton/Boro went up but there was no playoffs iirc). 20's a perfect number for the Premier League for mine. 38 games > 46 games.
If they wanted a Winter break, they'd have factored it in around then. As it is, it's just softcock players moaning that they have to work for their Hundred Thousand $$$ per week.

Yeah indeed, if you are paid as much as they are to be a professional athlete, a handful of extra matches is neither here nor there imo, and they ought to be able to deal with it.

 

[Uppercut]

Personally think the whole tiredness thing is horrendously overplayed. If someone asked me to play a match on a Wednesday and another one on a Saturday the idea of tiredness carrying over three days wouldn't even cross my mind. And I'm anything but a professional athlete.

If you play every single Premiership game, which no one actually does, that's a total of 57 hours of football over a period of nine months. Of which the ball is probably only in play about 30 hours. Grow a ****ing set.

 

[sledger]

Personally think the whole tiredness thing is horrendously overplayed. If someone asked me to play a match on a Wednesday and another one on a Saturday the idea of tiredness carrying over three days wouldn't even cross my mind. And I'm anything but a professional athlete.

If you play every single Premiership game, which no one actually does, that's a total of 57 hours of football over a period of nine months. Of which the ball is probably only in play about 30 hours. Grow a ****ing set.

Yeah, I was actually thinking that cricketers actually spend a lot more time actually on the field or playing etc... and are paid a lot less.

I was reading a schedule for some club's traning schedule the other day, consisted of something like, 1 hour in the gym on weights, 2 mile run, 2 hours of drills etc... And it made it out to be some mammoth task, which was truly testing. Piss off is it, yes that would be a lot for a normal person, but for a pro athlete this is nothing surely!

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

I was reading a schedule for some club's traning schedule the other day, consisted of something like, 1 hour in the gym on weights, 2 mile run, 2 hours of drills etc... And it made it out to be some mammoth task, which was truly testing. Piss off is it, yes that would be a lot for a normal person, but for a pro athlete this is nothing surely!

Every day, though? It'd take its toll.

I think people underestimate the fatigue that non-stop pushing your fitness can have.

 

[Uppercut]

That's as may be, but it utterly defeats the notion that footballers are forced to play too many games if they spend their time off the pitch on regimes like that.

 

[sledger]

Every day, though? It'd take its toll.

I think people underestimate the fatigue that non-stop pushing your fitness can have.

I think it was only pre-season tbf, which would explain the intense nature of it somewhat. But all the same, imo it's not an unreasonable demand of someone who is paid millions of pounds to be an athlete. I went to watch a Chelsea training session once, and it struck me, that hardly any of the player's were even breaking a sweat that day, hell knows where all of these complains come from.

 

[Uppercut]

Haha, can't stand the money thing being brought into it. Your wage has no effect whatsoever on how well your body stands up to strenuous physical exercise.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

I think it was only pre-season tbf, which would explain the intense nature of it somewhat. But all the same, imo it's not an unreasonable demand of someone who is paid millions of pounds to be an athlete. I went to watch a Chelsea training session once, and it struck me, that hardly any of the player's were even breaking a sweat that day, hell knows where all of these complains come from.

Ah, that old chestnut. "They get paid heaps, therefore their bodies shouldn't fatigue!"

Intelligent call, no doubt.

 

[sledger]

Well, whatever, I'm sure if I was on £120k a week it would soften the blow from all the ever so hard work I had to do.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

 

[grecian]

One of the great non-issues in football, The Winter Break. Everybody knows if it was imposed here our Global Brands would piss off to Dubai to play four matches in that time. The Prem isn't going to have less teams either, because no-one but the big clubs will vote for it.

Will, of course, be an handy excuse when we crash out of South Africa, along with too many foreigners. Forgetting that we will just not be good enough along with everyone else, but one, of the countries who failed, in what is the worlds most global competition.

 

[sledger]

One of the great non-issues in football, The Winter Break. Everybody knows if it was imposed here our Global Brands would piss off to Dubai to play four matches in that time. The Prem isn't going to have less teams either, because no-one but the big clubs will vote for it.

Will, of course, be an handy excuse when we crash out of South Africa, along with too many foreigners. Forgetting that we will just not be good enough along with everyone else, but one, of the countries who failed, in what is the worlds most global competition.

Yeah, is so obviously what is going to happen. Along with a load of rubbish about how we have a manager "who doesn't understand the English game" or some other bilge like that.

 

[Craig]

Yeah, I was actually thinking that cricketers actually spend a lot more time actually on the field or playing etc... and are paid a lot less.

I was reading a schedule for some club's traning schedule the other day, consisted of something like, 1 hour in the gym on weights, 2 mile run, 2 hours of drills etc... And it made it out to be some mammoth task, which was truly testing. Piss off is it, yes that would be a lot for a normal person, but for a pro athlete this is nothing surely!

Inter's training schedule - inter.it

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Forgetting that we will just not be good enough along with everyone else, but one, of the countries who failed, in what is the worlds most global competition.

This.

 

[sledger]

 

[Matteh]

Such a dive

 

[duffer]

Nice to see Citeh seem to know how to manage Ade's ego. Wouldn't want him getting a big head or nothing.

 

[sledger]

Such a dive

Yeah, would expect to see another ban issued tbh.