Match Day Thread WBA v Hull City

[Cortez91]

Remember twisting my knee whilst playing cricket. Our opener was a physio and told me not to drink alcohol that night as it thins the blood and can lead to worse bruising and tissue damage etc.

Maybe this is why we have so many injuries!

Alcohol consumption impairs muscle recovery! You've solved it

 

[Gone For A Walk]

Remember twisting my knee whilst playing cricket. Our opener was a physio and told me not to drink alcohol that night as it thins the blood and can lead to worse bruising and tissue damage etc.

And isn't the most fundamental advice to follow RICE?
It really was a pretty dumb choice to have made and isn't a good look at all.

 

[Christophalophados]

People need to get a grip. We only lost a football match FFS, I see no problem with a player being out for a beer or 3 afterwards. If it was the night before, and it contributes to a **** performance then fair enough, but it's not, yet people are talking about the optics of it. He doesn't need to stay at home, like he's grieving the death of a loved one.

 

[allowentry]

I agree, going out for a drink after a game is no big deal but the fact he’s in a protective boot is weird. This suggests he’s out for the season.

Can't believe we have given him another 3 years, he tries hard, plays through the pain barrier but hes simply not good enough, always seems to be out on the piss, nothing wrong with that really as he's human, but going out on it in a protective boot the night after a game isn't really a good idea.

 

[TIGERSCAVE]

Provided he's not on the lash the night before a game, big deal.

Seems , definitely, maybe, perhaps, they've done that too from past reports..

 

[Phin T Bookbinder2]

Maybe all this drinking before and after matches explains why we are having a **** season.

 

[SydneyTiger14]

We'd be on for an invincible season if we had teetotallers.

 

[DJBlackandamberarmy(No4)]

People need to get a grip. We only lost a football match FFS, I see no problem with a player being out for a beer or 3 afterwards. If it was the night before, and it contributes to a **** performance then fair enough, but it's not, yet people are talking about the optics of it. He doesn't need to stay at home, like he's grieving the death of a loved one.

Optics was mentioned in relation to his injury and dancing around in a boot, not alcohol , try and read the whole thing for a change before one of your righteous outbursts

 

[Kalman II]

People need to get a grip. We only lost a football match FFS, I see no problem with a player being out for a beer or 3 afterwards. If it was the night before, and it contributes to a **** performance then fair enough, but it's not, yet people are talking about the optics of it. He doesn't need to stay at home, like he's grieving the death of a loved one.

It’s an ankle injury and he’s in a protective boot. I don’t think a beer or three and attempting to dance is part of rest, ice, compression and elevation the same day of injury.

Maybe I’m wrong. Any physios who want to weigh in?

 

[Nikica Jellyfish]

Can’t knock a man for being human but as an elite level professional athlete earning absolute wedge probs isn’t sensible boozing heavy anyway never mind been in protective boot and doing it.

Amateur fighters have far greater discipline and earn **** all.

 

[Kalman II]

Again, I don’t want to knock Coyle in particular because he’s the one who has unfortunately been ‘caught’ whilst in a protective boot after an injury. He’s not the only one and he’s not even the worst culprit. Some of them were really taking the piss last season during a relegation scrap.

 

[TIGERSCAVE]

Again, I don’t want to knock Coyle in particular because he’s the one who has unfortunately been ‘caught’ whilst in a protective boot after an injury. He’s not the only one and he’s not even the worst culprit. Some of them were really on the piss last season during a relegation scrap.

 

[jhe10]

So there's some fuzzy video of a bloke with a beard, who when I froze the video didn't look like Coyle and didn't look like he was wearing anything on his feet besides trainers? Well, I'm outraged. Not sure about what though.

 

[Kalman II]

So there's some fuzzy video of a bloke with a beard, who when I froze the video didn't look like Coyle and didn't look like he was wearing anything on his feet besides trainers? Well, I'm outraged. Not sure about what though.

Lol. People said the same thing when he was scrapping in Empress.

‘Doesn’t look like him at all. It’s just ****-stirring’.

 

[TwoWrights]

Can’t knock a man for being human but as an elite level professional athlete earning absolute wedge probs isn’t sensible boozing heavy anyway never mind been in protective boot and doing it.

Amateur fighters have far greater discipline and earn **** all.

'Boozing heavy', him tap dancing and doing the can-can will be next.

 

[Cortez91]

So there's some fuzzy video of a bloke with a beard, who when I froze the video didn't look like Coyle and didn't look like he was wearing anything on his feet besides trainers? Well, I'm outraged. Not sure about what though.

Whichever side of the debate you're on, I think you're going to find all agree this is a poor take.

 

[mazzer]

Id like the manager and staff to go back to what got us in the top 6 in the first place. 4231, outscore the opposition. We have plenty attacking options and a few injuries at fullback position. Im sure if Coyle or Drameh have to sit a game or 2 out, we can put a centre back at full back for a game or so. Im pretty sure Hughes could do a job and McNair has played there too.

Going to a defensive 5 at the back against the 2nd from bottom is just negative. We have fantastic away form this season and they are where they are, not sure what we had to be worried about. If anything match their 442 formation and play like for like.

A few ppl are saying Sergei is starting to get things wrong recently and I would agree. There's only a handful of games left now, just go for it, 4231, get balls in the box for McBurnie to attack and with Gelhardt, Crooks and a few others we'll always be a threat to anyone.

I hope Sergi is'nt becoming a tinkerman.

 

[WSTiger]

People need to get a grip. We only lost a football match FFS, I see no problem with a player being out for a beer or 3 afterwards. If it was the night before, and it contributes to a **** performance then fair enough, but it's not, yet people are talking about the optics of it. He doesn't need to stay at home, like he's grieving the death of a loved one.

Well hope you dont mind but i beg to differ. The evidence is clear alcohol at any time affects athletic performance. Professional footballers are paid large salaries and it literally "pays" for them to be at peak perfomance at all times. I know of course that many players in the past played well consuming large amouts of alcohol. However you just have to look at Ronaldo to see what an alcohol free life along with attention to diet and fitness have do for his ability to play at a top level well into his 40's. And dont worry like many of this board i have drunk my fair share (though wish that share had been less)

 

[Kalman II]

Well hope you dont mind but i beg to differ. The evidence is clear alcohol at any time affects athletic performance. Professional footballers are paid large salaries and it literally "pays" for them to be at peak perfomance at all times. I know of course that many players in the past played well consuming large amouts of alcohol. However you just have to look at Ronaldo to see what an alcohol free life along with attention to diet and fitness have do for his ability to play at a top level well into his 40's. And dont worry like many of this board i have drunk my fair share (though wish that share had been less)

My issue with it is not so much that they’re drinking at all (they’re adults). It’s that he’s gone on a night out wearing a protective boot the same day he sustained another whack to his already-injured ankle. There’s evidence that alcohol impairs muscle and ligament repair after injury and affects the immune system. Not only that, why has he gone out at all last night? Can’t he just have a night in and rest his ankle whilst watching Netflix or summat?

I’m not criticising his work ethic or blaming him for the game but he’s made a poor lifestyle choice that could impact his recovery and supporters have every right to call it out.

 

[ashbees_captains_armband]

Maybe that's him for the season and hes having a night off? Either way, it's up to the players to be ship shape, if they aren't all the data the carry around will soon highlight that they aren't on it a they'll be dropped.

This isn't the 90s