Tiredness (merged)

[york away to this!]

Re: How would you solve the tiredness issue?

....perhaps they should go to bed a little earlier, or have a lie in?

 

[Marvin]

Re: How would you solve the tiredness issue?

Have you looked at when the europa League QF's are scheduled?

I think Mancini may seriously be thinking about playing a weakened team against Kiev. If we beat them, we will have no alternative but to play a weakened team in the Q/F 2nd leg.

Something has to give. Fans will want to put the FA Cup semi against Utd first

And then of course there's the away game at Chelsea. I have already given up any hope of getting anything out of that. Europa League is OK if you can devote resources to it, but if you are involved in anything else it's a distraction

More games than the Champions League, and significantly the games are scheduled on a Thursday which makes it very difficult to recover from

 

[johnmc]

Who looks tired?

I've seen this bandied about a few times now. Ive read fans wanting us to get knocked out on Thursday so we have a better shot at the league and FA cup.

So who looks tired?

Hart - No
Richards - No, he is in the best form of his career imo
Kompany - Not played for 2/3 weeks
Lescott - Hardly played really this season. Cover in Boateng
Boateng - As above
Kolarov - Missed a lot of the season and seems to be getting strong if anything
Barry - Rested yesterday, cam on for a bit, on thursday it will be basically his 2nd game in 8 days
NDJ - Not played for a month
Yaya - Argueably tired
Zabaletta - Rested yesterday
Silva - doesnt look tired to me and missed games throughout the season
Balotelli - Not played enough to be tired
Dzeko - whilst not yet fully integrated unlikely to be tired
Tevez - Maybe tiring but rested here and there
SWP, Viera, Jo, - Squad players who havent played enough

Milner and Johnson to come back in the coming weeks to lighten a bit of the load.

Who is it that looks tired?

 

[ST Coleridge]

Re: How would you solve the tiredness issue?

easy. stop talking about it.

Six games in 17 days, Billy. If you think 'talking about it' is the reason for the team's tiredness, then you're becoming a little blinkered.

Back on-topic: There's not much that can be done, except to try and rotate where possible. The international break will offer some respite.

 

[kevstar]

Re: How would you solve the tiredness issue?

Tell them they're not tired, they'll immediately become superhuman, that's just how it works.

Self Fulfilling Prophecy: a core tenet of sports psychology. How it works:
If you think something enough you'll believe it. You believe it you feel it. You feel it you do it.

How is it that your teenage son is too tired to wash up. He gets a text asking him to come round a play the X-box and suddenly there's a spring in his step and he is skipping down the garden path?

"You're tired" "You're tired" "You're tired" "You're tired" "You're tired" "You're tired" "You're tired"
"Aww poor me, I'm tired. OOh, I need a sit down!" That's how people end up pathetic victim-mentality nonces.

Bobby needs to learn some good northern sports psychology: "Get up off your a**es you lazy gits! Get yer boots on and go and give them b****rds a good kickin! Stop moping about and get out there you pampered half-wits!!!!"

A shower of Goven grit hasn't harmed a certain red team from Salford has it?

 

[redmizzle]

Re: Apparently we're really tired

Tell me are you depressed that Reading didn't win?

he has a point, fergie has just been on saying how happy his team are to still be involved in everything in March.

he's right too.

Mancini has said the same too.

 

[Cheadle Blue]

Re: How would you solve the tiredness issue?

Have you looked at when the europa League QF's are scheduled?

I think Mancini may seriously be thinking about playing a weakened team against Kiev. If we beat them, we will have no alternative but to play a weakened team in the Q/F 2nd leg.

Something has to give. Fans will want to put the FA Cup semi against Utd first

And then of course there's the away game at Chelsea. I have already given up any hope of getting anything out of that. Europa League is OK if you can devote resources to it, but if you are involved in anything else it's a distraction

More games than the Champions League, and significantly the games are scheduled on a Thursday which makes it very difficult to recover from

I agree something has to give, the europa league is going to be more drawn out, but surely if we can get through on thursday, is our best chance of a trophy.

 

[Project]

Ferguson is the first to complain about fixture pile up. Google it, you will find results every year for the past decade.

 

[sweep]

Re: How would you solve the tiredness issue?

Tell them they're not tired, they'll immediately become superhuman, that's just how it works.

Self Fulfilling Prophecy: a core tenet of sports psychology. How it works:
If you think something enough you'll believe it. You believe it you feel it. You feel it you do it.

How is it that your teenage son is too tired to wash up. He gets a text asking him to come round a play the X-box and suddenly there's a spring in his step and he is skipping down the garden path?

"You're tired" "You're tired" "You're tired" "You're tired" "You're tired" "You're tired" "You're tired"
"Aww poor me, I'm tired. OOh, I need a sit down!" That's how people end up pathetic victim-mentality nonces.

Bobby needs to learn some good northern sports psychology: "Get up off your a**es you lazy gits! Get yer boots on and go and give them b****rds a good kickin! Stop moping about and get out there you pampered half-wits!!!!"

A shower of Goven grit hasn't harmed a certain red team from Salford has it?

Fair play for at least bothering to answer the question kev, I'm still sceptical though that anybody on here knows much about the actual fitness levels and mentality of our squad, I just think it's an easy thing to throw out there (just as some think tiredness is an easy excuse).

Oh and re the teenager, I suspect that's less to do with perceived tiredness and more coz washin up iz fukin booooooorin an xbox is da shizzle!

 

[johnmc]

Ferguson is the first to complain about fixture pile up. Google it, you will find results every year for the past decade.

But they still play the games and invariably they win

What other teams complain about it?

Barca, Madrid, Chelsea, Liverpool (in the past) Bayern etc etc

You will see a pattern emerge if you look at the teams complaining and their sucess.