5th Round - confirmed Sunday 4pm kick off

[Corky]

Chess, darts and Basketball are slightly easier to recover from than football.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Chess, darts and Basketball are slightly easier to recover from than football.

But is football easier to recover than than football? Because teams have gone away to Russia on a Wednesday and then played on the Saturday, or gone to Greece on a Thursday and then played on the Sunday, or played in the Prem on a Saturday and then travelled to Romania on the Tuesday and nobody says a word about it.

But when it's Sunday-Wednesday it's a big deal?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

But is football easier to recover than than football?

That is the question.

 

[mcfcinprague]

But is football easier to recover than than football? Because teams have gone away to Russia on a Wednesday and then played on the Saturday, or gone to Greece on a Thursday and then played on the Sunday, or played in the Prem on a Saturday and then travelled to Romania on the Tuesday and nobody says a word about it.

But when it's Sunday-Wednesday it's a big deal?

Looks like it's us two against the world on this one

In 69/70 we played 61 games including 42 in Div 1 and 9 in the ECWC and 7 in the LC. And with an all English squad apart from 2 Scots, Willie Donachie and Arthur Mann

I don't recall anybody complaining about it back then

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Plus you can't say football is harder to recover from than rugby league, I've played both and you can't lift your head from the pillow the next morning after some games of rugby because of the whiplash injuries in neck, yet these lads:
http://m.nrl.com/watmough-ready-for-two-gruelling-games/tabid/10874/newsid/58518/default.aspx

Anyone who's played either code of rugby will know how tough it is to recover from playing

 

[ono]

Chess, darts and Basketball are slightly easier to recover from than football.

Not so much Basketball. It's very hard on the body, especially if you're a big guy or a post player where you're constantly taking hits from other guys who are 6.10 and 260lbs.

On top of that there is the travel and the training and the amount of times you have to play on consecutive nights.

It's much tougher than the life of a footballer who might ocassionally have to play 3 times in 1 week for a month, especially with the amount of squad rotation that goes on. That happens much less in Basketball.

Our situation is bad now, but we've got to crack on.

 

[cookster]

I agree mate

Back in the day e.g. the 70's teams played in all these competitions with a squad of 12 or 13 players week in week out and not one complaint from anyone

If you tell the players enough times their tied they start to believe it. Pellegrini is great at that!!

 

[Blue Mooner]

Looks like it's us two against the world on this one

In 69/70 we played 61 games including 42 in Div 1 and 9 in the ECWC and 7 in the LC. And with an all English squad apart from 2 Scots, Willie Donachie and Arthur Mann

I don't recall anybody complaining about it back then

I think your missing the main point, it's not a question of whether you can physically recover, you possibly can, it's the fatigue of your muscles and recovery time vs the team you will be playing against - that distance, and also the time difference, also has a detrimental effect on players recovery time and the ability to do the right things to recover. They (dynamo kiev) will be fresh, we won't.

I have to laugh because it's probably fans like you that will be the first to complain if we gave a sub standard performance taking no account of the physical exertions the players have had to endure. Back in the day all teams were playing the same time and largely the same number of games so at least it was a level playing field, plus, I would argue strongly that games were no where near as intensive as they are today.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

NBA teams can play four games in a week numerous times a season and they don't rotate/rest players because the stars want to gain as many stats as possible.

They can play in New York on a Monday and Wednesday night, fly to Dallas to play on the Thursday night and then to Los Angeles to play on the Sunday.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

If you tell the players enough times their tired they start to believe it. Pellegrini is great at that!!

Spot on!