weedman

Is it on TV?

I mean most fitness and conditioning is done during pre season and ours was a total mess, since we've had multiple injures with players not up to speed and lots of travelling between countries, our fitness being poor this season isn't really a shock I don't think

I was also there, what a great night that was!

The fact that it's an article in the Daily Mail is enough to prove its nonsense

Thing is, if it's a foul, I think it has to be a red, but am I the only one who can't see a foul there at all? There's laughably little contact and screams of their guy getting in between the defender and the ball and falling over, hoping there might have been a touch. Honestly if that's enough "contact" for a foul and red card why doesn't every single corner end up with a penalty? There's more contact on all 15 players inside the box at a corner than there was on the west ham player in that instance

Someone should tell the club, because they are paying a company a ton of money to make the players wear those monitors in every game, what a rip off! Hell, 5 years ago when I played football addidas made a boot that had a tracker in it that recorded your top speed, distance covered, number of sprints, and a ton of other metrics, and that was £100 from sports direct, if you think Premier League football teams worth hundreds of millions are still going by the "how fit do you feel" approach to deciding player fitness you are living in the past

Just to confirm having read through the topic, the main issue with Smith now is that he makes too many subs, too early, and "if a player can play for 60 minutes they can play for 90", so should never be subbed unless we are losing. Its been an interesting read, I always assumed that fatigue got worse the longer you played, that football is an endurance sport because most of the "only 10k" you run is in high intensity or sprints and not making enough "proactive" subs was the main thing Smith has been criticised for the last few years

I was imagining a private plane myself, although possibly a slight exaggeration but if I was earning 50/60/70k a week I'm not gonna be skimping on a flight to go see my dad in hospital. I don't think he was sweating over whether to pay the £75 for extra legroom seats

Whilst I agree with this, I'd imagine 18 hours on a plane for a Premier league footballer is a somewhat different experience to 18 hours on a plane for you and I. They'll have exercise equipment, Michelin star chefs, waiters, deluxe beds etc. Obviously last time having to quarantine and everything that happened would have been v stressful, but in general I don't think the flight time is that bad for them - I'm not sure of the time difference but if its big I'd say that'll be the bigger issue

I mean pretty much the only teams that offer that are the top 2 or 3 and Norwich

What is this talk about him "not being given a chance", he hasn't played 90 minutes in about a year and has spent every minute of his time here either injured or unfit, now he's meant to be straight into the team and first name on the team sheet? What's happening?!

What gives him the right? He's literally been injured pretty much since he joined. Last time he played for us he managed about 10 minutes before getting injured again, now he's throwing a wobbly because he was available for the first time in months and not picked straight away. Bore off

I can find eye witnesses that "saw" Trump votes being destroyed to rig the election. Edit. It may be true of course, and if it is then it does need sorting out (although I think there are frequently arguments after a defeat) but there's a huge chance its completely made up as most things online are. People seem to give more credence to Facebook/twitter comments rather than actual evidence these days which is why there are so many bots and trolls around

We signed Sanson in January and he's not been able to put in 90 minutes for us yet. He has not got a "right to be pissed watching our midfield", he needs to be able to play 30 minutes without getting injured before demanding to be in the team.

I hate the "no smoke without fire" expression. It gives people carte blanche to believe any tripe they read, I'd wager a lot of people that believe the vaccine is going to kill off the population in 2 years probably read it, thought "that's bs" then read it a few more times and figured "well, no smoke without fire, I'll pass on the vaccine, personal choice innit". It's 2021, the internet exists. There is a lot of smoke without fire

And play well every week regardless of injuries or any other mitigating circumstances

I think the key difference for me is Grealish is a superstar, popular outside football, a global brand, and you just can't maintain that at Villa as we are now (in a few years hopefully!), Emi doesn't seem that way. He seems a genuine guy just happy to be playing football and winning trophies (albeit for Argentina). He's had a taste of being at an "elite" (according to the media) club and knows that playing regularly is more important Fingers crossed he's here for the rest of his career because I love the guy

It's worth remembering that the best thing for a players development is to play with players slightly ahead of where they are, that allows them to push themselves to get to that level. If he's struggling to get into the Ipswich first team then he's probably at the right spot, if he can work hard and nail down a spot by January then we could look to get him to a higher level after Jan, if not then he stays and hopefully can nail down a spot by the end of the season. That'll be good progress for a young player. Not everyone is Rooney and not everyone currently playing in the PL was playing mens football consistently at 18, let the lad develop

Ahh I knew this hyperbole would be out as soon as he made the mistake. It was a mistake, every defender makes them, including Mings. Not 10 minutes later he bailed out Konsa after Konsa got caught on the ball and dispossessed. Maybe everyone thinks Konsa is a better defender because when he makes a mistake he's got Mings to cover for him, Mings doesn't have anyone so mistakes are more costly

He's really growing into the team now, last season he looked like a young guy learning his trade, he's looking like a proper PL player now. He's not dominating games yet, but the rate he's progressing you wouldn't bet against him next season

I mean, it's been mentioned in virtually every conversation from fans and pundits when talking about Jack for about 3 years, but other than that I wholeheartedly agree!

You have to wonder if they'd have taken the same stance if it was, say, Kane and Son however. Easy to risk pissing off players that never play for you anyway

Surely if you're including draws it's just points per game rather than win %?! The whole point of a win % is its the % of games that you've won. Draws are not wins, therefore do not count as a win %, otherwise what next, why don't we add 0.2% to the win % every time there's more than 2 goals for the entertainment value? 0.5% for more than 4 goals? Trying to mess around with the number to include draws just shows what a terrible metric win % is in the first place. PPG is better (which is basically what is happening when you start accounting for draws) and even that still doesn't account for context so is completely irrelevant most of the time.

But the whole point of Croatia was so they could still train, I'd imagine we'll send a coach or someone out to train them for a few days until they can rejoin. Even if Buendia can only start from the bench Martinez will definately be fine to play

That's irrelevant, those forms are legal documents, it's 100% their responsibility to make sure they're filled in correctly If they're stuck in quarantine because they lied (or allowed someone else to lie on their behalf) on their forms then they deserve just as much flak as anyone else for it. Edit just to add, it's not like these are hugely complicated forms, they are the same forms that literally everyone has to fill in. They take 5 minutes maximum, there's absolutely no excuse for not doing them yourself, pampered millionaire footballer or not This, surely when this deal was being worked out that they would play 2 games then come home somebody would have noticed that the 2nd one was in Brazil?!