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Pidge

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  1. Who do you think AndyB2 is? Surely he is a renaming of someone who has been on before. Someone who talks/posts so much would not just have 157 posts. Any ideas?
  2. Were there Away fans in the home crowd like people were worried about?
  3. The problem is that the players are needing and getting more bollockings. There comes a point where players don’t want to be here anymore and are trapped because they are showing to poorly on the pitch for other teams to be interested. We can’t get rid because they are contracted. Managers usually come in to the club being personally supportive, encouraging and publicly supportive too. With successive poor performances, criticism in the dressing room becomes necessary, however much the manager knows he is taking a risk that performances may actually get worse because you may piss off modern players. Then when players don’t respond, the manager starts going public. It’s a sign that the manager is loosing the dressing room. Very worrying that we are getting to this point at such a critical point in the season.
  4. Depends if I had identified that the reason the food dished up was poor was simple because the chef was scared of what I may say about his food. Giving him some love may get some worldy football, sorry food (I forgot what we were talking about! )
  5. How can a clean sheet 0:0 performance be “horrific”. Wow some of our fans still expect NL players to be as good as those worth 50 million.
  6. So you have decided poor performances occur because the players are scared at home. I think you will find it is more complicated then that! BTW BP, if you do believe what you say, you could start by giving them some love rather then criticism.
  7. So you would be happier if he quickly gets rid of the ball hoofball style? We have to many of those don’t we. He is young and learning his trade, but he has ability. I would rather he tries things and sometimes looses the ball then he just passes back or boots it.
  8. I think he is trying to put out a team that will compete for the ball. Apart from Green, they are the players most likely to show some fight and pride. Hopefully Green will make something happen going forward.
  9. They had time to control and play back then. Now if a player does a step over and looses the ball they get roasted.
  10. I think you will find that the introduction of GPS was not to discipline players for being lazy. The main reason it is used is to track the work load muscles have done and try to predict a player at risk of injury, so their training can be altered. I can assure you the average player is much fitter in a cardiovascular sense now then back in the 80s and 90s. That includes the teams we are playing who are much further down the league. That’s why we are not simply fitter then other teams and actually need to be more switched on (react to second balls first) and physically aggressive to get to the ball ahead in a 50:50.
  11. I’m beginning to understand McFluff a little better. I thought we were discussing why the players looked leggy (your word). you seemed BP, to be suggesting extra training without time to recover would help. I hope you are not suggesting playing 3 times a week will give them even more energy. Often in Big Joe’s day, if we were playing twice a week he wouldn’t have the players train in between except to work on shape and game plan. I’m guessing that was so the players wouldn’t look leggy.
  12. I’m not usually expected to explain someone else’s observation, you seem to understand what is meant by “leggy” as you agree our players look to be. What can say is that bringing them in on the Sunday after a league match and only a short time before the next league game is not the advise a sports Rehab Therapist would give to result in them being converted from leggy to lively!
  13. That is such bollocks mate. Were you in the changing room after? The performance was poor because they were often half a yard behind the opponent. The statistics on their GPSs won’t be different from other matches where they played well !
  14. Maybe you didn’t take note of whether there was a Tuesday game on those occasions. If there was, take it from me that physical training the day after a competitive match without sufficient recovery time (ie match Tues) was counter productive.
  15. I agree with most of this Big Dog The truth is that this group of players were unable to compete yesterday with a team which was strong and quick and took advantage of a weak referee who allowed pushing, pulling and holding all over the pitch. Players of “better” quality still have to earn the right to play. They have to be mentally strong enough to be first to the loose ball, to win more then 50% of the 50:50 balls they complete. To find a way to win headers despite physical attentions from a defender. Once you are winning possession, you can pass and play football. Yesterday there were not enough with the mental strength to be physical enough and aggressive enough to best their opponent. Most either lost the ball under that pressure or just hoofed it aimlessly before they did loose it. Motivation wise you have to wonder why the big crowd of fans, and the expectation of the owners family was not enough to make them want and need to compete.
  16. That comment suggests you are not very knowledgeable about the nuts and bolts of football management. Why when you are playing again Tuesday night, would you train the players on the training pitch, they need to recover. if you want to punish them, bring them in to watch the match.
  17. You have no idea how Reid responded to MM when sanctioned at the beginning. Whatever happened at the beginning clearly cannot be undone/unsaid.
  18. For me the budget worry was one of the reasonable “worries”. Do any of us know the depth of the owners pockets? Every other Oldham owner in recent years have either run out of money or just decided to stop wasting money on our/their football club. I still find myself hoping we get promoted for many reasons, but one is that league 2 money will help the owners.
  19. “Youth is the way” until its not. Apparently Hammond and Sachdev aren’t ready. Only those that BP1960 says are ready are ready.
  20. I predict you are heading for a blocking! I try to resist replying to his every post, but they are irritating, sometimes I can’t resist!
  21. Strange question for someone who knows so much about recruitment. What do you even mean by fitness test? Are you talking about assessing the risk of injury, because the fact that players get injured after being signed seems to be your point? Or are you talking about assessment of VO2 max? Or are you talking about joint range and muscle strength assessments? “Fitness tests” is such a simple term. Players signed at our level have to be a bit of a gamble. The better quality players are often being let go by teams higher up the pyramid because of their injury record or age.
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