Just look at great players like razor ruddock and Nev southall to see what happens when you give up playing sport and don't run down your training bit by bit when you finish playing. All professional sports are demanding in their own right.
2.8m a game, now thats nothing they can do that jogging. My 15 year old plays and 80min game and runs around 3.8m to 4.2m a game, I know exactly how much sprinting he does, jogging etc. All this by a simple chip in his boot, down load the data and I can via a graph how much effort he puts in a game. Now most pros will run a minimum of 4.8m a game Rangel quite often covers the most his stats are about 6.2m a game, now thats impressive.
If we had VT in charge he would probably want to know why Vorm and Tremmel weren't running for at least 4 miles a game
Razor Ruddock ! When I think of great players I think of Platini, Laudrup, Zico etc. but never Ruddock. He was part of the Souness team that ruined Liverpool. He was a thug.
Got to agree , a great footballer maybe in liverpool but there's no comparison to the above mentioned .A limited player who basically was there because of his size and presence .How many caps did he win ? ,I can't think of any . I have to agree regarding boxing ,I did a bit when I was in the Forces and although fit, that took it up to another level
One side of my family is heavily into boxing. There are fighters, referees and judges in the clan all at amateur level. They got me interested at a young age and, when I moved to London, I trained at the then newish National Recreation Centre now the national Sports Centre at Crystal Palace. I have to say that the training was the toughest I have ever endured. Football training was a breeze in comparison. The circuit training was brutal, no other word for it but my club insisted that you were totally fit before they let you fight. The funny thing was that the state of the art facilities attracted pro fighters like a magnet. Trouble was it was a strictly amateur facility so they were turfed out pretty quick. Mind you, when particularly gifted young pros came in, our trainers frequently turned a blind eye for the night so we could work with them, watch them close up and even do a little light sparring. Watching them work on the speed bag and the suspended wire ball was an education in itself. It taught me one thing. The gulf between an experienced amateur and even a young pro was immense. I also learned something else - the camaraderie between boxers was incredibly close, far closer than I ever found in a football changing room. I made some fabulous friends with a great bunch of people and you never got any bother when you went out as a group.
Whatever sport you want to excel in, you have to have the stomach for it, and if any of you want to test yourselves, go and have half an hour of some serious 5 a side! you'll soon find if you have have the stomach to last!..............
I have utmost respect for anyone who disciplines and applies himself to box, as you say Ivor I knew lads who were totally dedicated who gave 100% in training and during the fight ,regardless of the outcome they were the tidiest and most unassuming people you could wish to meet .No stagger or arrogance about their demeanour because they knew they had nothing to prove .it's like most sports in that once you've got them early then it's rare for them to go off the rails and that is probably truer in boxing than most other sports
"So you always have to have respect for the number of points teams have. If you were to say relegation is none of my concern then you are very arrogant. None of the bottom 11 teams can say that." - Laudrup Thought I'd put this quote up from Laudrup to help our young swan_and_only to understand a little bit more? Link: http://www1.skysports.com/football/...ck-as-swansea-prepare-to-host-manchester-city
I still believe that we are good enough to stay in the league!!! But I'm glad that this is the attitude of our manager! Because its his job to be concerned! I will only get my knickers in a twist tho if we don't improve over the second half of the season (which I genuinely believe we will)
Lets bloody hope so eh, We cant go on as we are thats for sure or we will get sucked into the relegation lottery and i dont want us to have to rely on other sides to keep us up.
Well the way I see it is what's the point worrying about the what ifs because its totally out of our control! I fully trust Laudrup to keep us up!!!
I was looking at the Form table earlier and according to that there are 7 teams in a worse position than us. I do agree though that we should be doing better but our form is understandable when you consider that we have played more games that any other team in the PL up to this date and the injury concerns we have.
There are many ways of looking at these 'extra games' we have played, it could be argued that given these, we should be well oiled and rocking? in our groove so to speak, then again, there are those of the 'Fatigue camp', but which ever view you hold, Laudrup emphasised plenty of rotation this year early season to combat issues with 'Fatigue', and it's that rotation that I think we are struggling with, not knowing which players you'll be pairing with, which game this week you'll be in, Europe or PL? It certainly has been a stiff learning curve for our team, that much cannot be denied.................
