Hot Under The Collar

[royalbarclayfan]

Our team soon fly off to the sun
Like swallows, when winter has come,
Its rays on their backs
Will help them relax
In readiness for their home run

But sometimes plans that are best laid
Backfire almost before they´re made,
And holiday breaks
Against such high stakes
Might just make them wish they had stayed

No time to put heads in the sand
Hard work every minute they stand,
Or else quite for free
A trip to the sea
They could have done in our own land

I remember Stringer would teach
A run or two on Yarmouth beach,
Good enough those days
To refresh our plays
When new peaks they wanted to reach

But if Abu Dhabí´s the place
To rejuvenate this year´s race,
Then let it be so
That they´re raring to go
When once again Colney they grace. OTBC - INIT

 

[KIO]

This is what I really can't get my head around, 'warm weather training' ? WTF is all that about ? It's nothing but an undeserved holiday in the Sun. The players will all have a jolly kicking a ball around in the warm sunshine only to come back to play Leicester in the freezing cold, good preparation that

 

[wellyblue]

A nice play on Robert Burns in the second verse.

 

[royalbarclayfan]

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This is what I really can't get my head around, 'warm weather training' ? WTF is all that about ? It's nothing but an undeserved holiday in the Sun. The players will all have a jolly kicking a ball around in the warm sunshine only to come back to play Leicester in the freezing cold, good preparation that

Yep, ´fraid I´ve never quite understood the benefits of an all-expenses-paid holiday, in mid -season, either KIO - but then again , there´s probably a lot we don´t understand, which to some, makes perfect sense.

 

[canary-dave]

An awful lot of athletes, tennis players and so on, opt for warm weather training because it takes less time for the muscles to warm up, overdoing it in cold weather leads to muscle injuries! The very last thing we need right now is unnecessary injuries to our first team squad!

 

[KIO]

An awful lot of athletes, tennis players and so on, opt for warm weather training because it takes less time for the muscles to warm up, overdoing it in cold weather leads to muscle injuries! The very last thing we need right now is unnecessary injuries to our first team squad!

Dave, you always have an answer for everything

 

[canary-dave]

Dave, you always have an answer for everything

Not everything, but this one is the truth!

 

[NORKIE]

It could be an incentive to remain in the PL. Lose that status and it becomes a week in Weston-super-Mare LOL.

 

[canary-dave]

It could be an incentive to remain in the PL. Lose that status and it becomes a week in Weston-super-Mare LOL.

Or if you really want to punish them, make it a fortnight!

 

[NORKIE]

Real punishment would be to put Ruddy up front and a defender in goal.

 

[Home on the range canary]

because warm weather training has demonstrable benefits on fitness levels especially if people are training for an event in the cold weather- studies tend to show a 5-10% improvement in various indices of cardiovascular performance and endurance/speed etc

 

[NORKIE]

Hi skald bor, but will they learn to defend ?

 

[JKCanary]

This is what I really can't get my head around, 'warm weather training' ? WTF is all that about ? It's nothing but an undeserved holiday in the Sun. The players will all have a jolly kicking a ball around in the warm sunshine only to come back to play Leicester in the freezing cold, good preparation that

I think you deserve your own one of these > for that comment, KIO!

 

[KIO]

I think you deserve your own one of these > for that comment, KIO!

have one back

 

[royalbarclayfan]

An awful lot of athletes, tennis players and so on, opt for warm weather training because it takes less time for the muscles to warm up, overdoing it in cold weather leads to muscle injuries! The very last thing we need right now is unnecessary injuries to our first team squad!

Thanks Dave, and Home on the Range, I´m quite prepared to go along with it if it´s been scientifically proven to work, just never seen much evidence of it in the flesh. In fact, they could go and camp up on the North Pole for a couple of nights, as far as I´m concerned, if it meant that they would come back and beat Leicester.