our history tells us it will be a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time before we return if so
Remember him taking a couple of poor free kicks near the end that's all. Not saying he had a good game, just no worse than the rest.
Jack, firpo, paddy… Are our official team scapegoats jambo. Your memory must be slipping. When the whole team looks sh*t it’s usually a collective issue cause by opposition spoiling tactics. It seemed to go unnoticed that the opposition usually felt they struggled to play well against us, because we pressed the fck out of them and won the ball back a lot. Sorry when I said ‘pressed the fck out of them’ what I meant was ‘ran around like headless chickens’ obviously.
And if we'd been able to maintain that pressure on the ball for the full 90 mins we'd probably be top of the League now
So basically we need to get a coach who will get the players super fit and able to run around for 90 minutes. Amazing concept. I wonder where we’d find one of them
We're definitely not as fit as before and yet still getting plenty of injuries. So where's the upside ?
not checked the breakdown of impact v muscle injuries tbh jambo… however it was bielsa’s performance coach who admitted their strategy was that the extra fitness ‘plus side’ outweighed the acknowledged increased risk of injury. Some might say bielsa put results before individual player welfare. Great for the fans, maybe not so great if you are the player who gets injured. I actually don’t have a strong opinion on it one way or the other to be honest. There’s not much research into long term injury records of players that have trained more heavily than others. Anyway Bielsa/Price pushed the boundaries, we got promoted off it. The ‘over/trained’ bit that was more relevant last year was the short term physical and mental impact of “overtraining’... of which there is tons of evidence. It’s one thing doing murderball and extra training sessions when you’re riding the crest of a wave. Quite another when you’re getting butchered every Saturday. And When you have a small squad riddled with injuries the remaining players can’t get the recovery breaks they need. In my view that was the real issue last February… coupled with a manager known to create a funereal atmosphere after any defeat.. it doesn’t take much to imagine what Thorpe arch was like this time last year.
Jacks issue at the moment is that he's not naturally a playmaker. He's been thrown central and given the space to try and unlock the opposition. It's really not his game. He actually does alot of good things. He's clever and picks up those little pockets of space that drags defenders out of position. He leads the press well. Great first touch. Good strength. Usually a decent crosser. His issue is that he just doesn't see the critical pass. That's why he should be dropped as he's just not making the difference. We lack the creativity and have since Pablo left.
