Genetics play a part. Some people's muscles are more or less prone to injury. Sometimes it's lifestyle related also. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo for example were rarely injured in their careers and if you ever look into it he had an absolutely religious diet, recovery and training regime away from his football clubs, whereas some players finish training and may then go slope off, eat c***, play video games or watch TV etc. You are actually at the most prone to muscle injuries where you are sedentary then active. So you just don't know what factors mean that a certain player is plagued by injuries while another doing mostly the same thing isn't.
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Ange in or out?
- Thread starter Yiddo
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Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
They are the calls I don’t get
He hasn’t used very well what little depth he has IMO
Baleforce
Les Bennett
That’s two other badly managed teams though.
Can we play City every week?
Probably in that other league of powerhouse teams, Australia.
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Andy Thompson
We have 18 outfield players who are actually men (i.e. over 21). Fewer than any of our peers (other teams playing European football this season).
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Andy Thompson
So he is basically the person that chooses the board as opposed to the board choosing him. If the board have performed poorly over the past several years that is because he hasn't got the right people/ensured the investments at the right times.
I agree completely with your point that our squad had been mismanaged meaning that we ended up very low on club trained players. However, the ultimate reason for that was the poor structure and investment that had gone into the youth and recruitment departments. Unfortunately because our exec chairman is self-appointed we're stuck with him, especially as the main THFC shareholder only seems to care about his net worth.
Maybe as Lewis' family take over from him they will care more about winning trophies than turning their £3 billion net work into £6 billion of net worth. I fear that until that happens we are hamstrung (a bit like our squad at present!
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Andy Thompson
you 'imagine'.... None of us actually have any idea so let's not make assumptions based on no knowledge.
Personally I would imagine the opposite of what you imagine. I would've thought that the fitness work is done pre and early season and at the point of the season when games come thick and fast the squad would not be doing much, if any, high intensity stuff.
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Andy Thompson
You realise that you can register anywhere between 0 and 4 club trained players for a compliant UEFA squad right?
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Andy Thompson
You're right, surely he can't be.
Far more likely is that Postecoglou has watched Lankshear and knows he is nowhere near yet good enough to play reasonably at PL level. Which having watched him numerous times myself I agree with. The player would probably benefit from a loan to a div 1 team at present, though he wouldn't be a guaranteed starter at all div 1 teams.
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Andy Thompson
Interestingly, I haven't really seen Gray making such runs and lunges when playing centre back for us. He instead looks calm and assured and seems to have time. More than half of being a great centre back is positional sense. I'm going to say this quietly and expect to get somewhat flamed but I think Gray might be a better centre back than Van Der Ven who seems to relish getting into a foot race instead of avoiding that unless completely necessary.
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Andy Thompson
Updating how? It merely reflects how 122 people who have bothered to vote feel about Ange staying or going.
If Lankshere is in the squad and our only option as CF backup due to injury of Richarlson then he should absoloutely be getting minutes to ease the load on Solanke whether he's 'ready' or not (I'd imagine he is ready for cameos personally based on what i saw in Istanbul) If Solanke picks up an injury then we're in a much worse spot than if he gets taken off for 10-20 minutes a game here and there.
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Andy Thompson
Not when you've already got 29.5% of the fanbase (based on the poll in this thread) wanting you out. You need all the points you can get.
His job is to manage the squad and players not bow to fan pressure.
glasgowspur
Andy Thompson
It can be updated by changing your vote I think.
This is a broader question, @thfcsteff talked about it in another thread
- Players today have lots of data, the club, medical department and manager should know how close they are to redlines, how is their recovery time recommended vs. actually getting (and if they don't that's yet another problem)
To me, there is no fudging way Udogie, Porro, Son, Deki, Solanke are not showing up in some kind of redline/at risk data and/or constantly having insufficient recovery time (that's data that you can get on yourself as a regular person working out)
Bullet
Colin Calderwood
Deki said he trained harder and wiser in the summer, to be even better this year.
Son regularly uses the pool and ice baths after training and was alone in the pool in the video the club did with him a few months ago.
So perhaps certain players are doing certain things better, which other players can learn from.
None of us know for sure.
I do notice in those short training videos released by the club, some players look to be doing exercises really properly i.e. full range of motion, and others are dangling a leg and cutting corners a bit.
I suspect that is one of the things Ange notices when he is standing back and observing who does what.
Son regularly uses the pool and ice baths after training and was alone in the pool in the video the club did with him a few months ago.
So perhaps certain players are doing certain things better, which other players can learn from.
None of us know for sure.
I do notice in those short training videos released by the club, some players look to be doing exercises really properly i.e. full range of motion, and others are dangling a leg and cutting corners a bit.
I suspect that is one of the things Ange notices when he is standing back and observing who does what.
Mrs Vert
Didier Zokora
No chance of him bowing down to fans pressure. He is pretty intent on keeping to his way, regardless!!