| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo 12:43 - Jul 9 with 3049 views | Antti_Heinola |
Barbet says it's 'toughest pre-season yet.'
https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/club-news/barbet-loving-life-in-austria/
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'the lads are looking really sharp'
'i kept myself in good nick after the end of the season anyway'
'the new lads are settling in well.
'obviously it'll take some time for the team to gel'
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:02 - Jul 9 with 2205 views | rsonist |
Think Furs Jr got all of those yesterday. Actually I can't remember a word he said, obviously, but that was the banal gist. |  | | |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:08 - Jul 9 with 2173 views | rsonist |
Main thing is only seven hours til I get to see Andy Watkins again. | | | |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:11 - Jul 9 with 2164 views | Northernr |
No no no, Ian Holloway did the toughest pre-seasons evs, we were told specifically, we saw them running up that hill. |  | | |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:11 - Jul 9 with 2155 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:11 - Jul 9 by Northernr |
No no no, Ian Holloway did the toughest pre-seasons evs, we were told specifically, we saw them running up that hill. |
In a way Kate Bush would have been proud of. |  | | |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:14 - Jul 9 with 2145 views | TacticalR |
Is this the one where the new manager discovers that the players are all unfit and vows to end the decadence and bring in a new order? |  |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:21 - Jul 9 with 2118 views | kensalriser |
No, after we haven't won the first couple of games fans will declare that the players are disgracefully unfit and question why the club/players can't meet the basic requirements of professional football like whoever's top of the division with two wins. |  |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:24 - Jul 9 with 2099 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:21 - Jul 9 by kensalriser |
No, after we haven't won the first couple of games fans will declare that the players are disgracefully unfit and question why the club/players can't meet the basic requirements of professional football like whoever's top of the division with two wins. |
Or they will win the first few games but then fail to keep their 100% record intact through November whereupon the fans will declare that the pre-season was too tough. |  |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:27 - Jul 9 with 2088 views | Northernr |
I wonder if a manager has ever come into a club and found the players' fitness to his liking?
It's such a bullsht football cliche. Managers love it because there's no palpable way to prove they were unfit before he came, nor that they're fitter now he's been here a few weeks, but it buys him a few weeks grace. | | | |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:36 - Jul 9 with 2033 views | daveB |
Always seems mad to me how much fitness work they do in pre season, it's the one time of year when they have no pressure on games playing games winning points etc so can really work on team shape and a way of playing, set pieces etc but spend most of the 4 weeks running up hills.
The way players are now they really should be given a fitness programme for the 2 months they have off and then come straight back to football work |  | | |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:39 - Jul 9 with 2020 views | smegma |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:14 - Jul 9 by TacticalR |
Is this the one where the new manager discovers that the players are all unfit and vows to end the decadence and bring in a new order? |
That's the one. Since Gerry Francis first time around circa 1991, the team has trained harder every year. So by that , each player would run a marathon in 45 minutes. [Post edited 9 Jul 2019 13:43]
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:41 - Jul 9 with 2005 views | Phil_i_P_Daddy |
Dieng Dieng, surely...? |  |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:44 - Jul 9 with 1988 views | Northernr |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:36 - Jul 9 by daveB |
Always seems mad to me how much fitness work they do in pre season, it's the one time of year when they have no pressure on games playing games winning points etc so can really work on team shape and a way of playing, set pieces etc but spend most of the 4 weeks running up hills.
The way players are now they really should be given a fitness programme for the 2 months they have off and then come straight back to football work |
TBF, judging by their Instagrams, a lot of them go away to/with personal trainers. Dan Edwards who's worked at QPR has been working with Dan James all summer, Grant Hall has been in a training camp, as has Eze and a few others, Ilias Chair seemed to do a hell of a lot of distance running in between sitting on a beach and sitting in the front seat of a car listening to horrendous music.
Exceptions
- Joe Lumley and Ryan Manning went on a lads lads lads holiday to one of those swimming pools that's absolutely rammed full of good looking people jumping up and down to music even worse than that in Ilias Chair's car. But then Lumley's a keeper, and Ryan Manning is the fittest lad in the world, so it doesn't matter.
- Jack Wilshere likes to work his way through 40 fags a day in LA hot tubs to get him ready for the rigours of half a dozen ill-judged sliding tackles followed by three months in the treatment room. | | | |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:55 - Jul 9 with 1927 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:36 - Jul 9 by daveB |
Always seems mad to me how much fitness work they do in pre season, it's the one time of year when they have no pressure on games playing games winning points etc so can really work on team shape and a way of playing, set pieces etc but spend most of the 4 weeks running up hills.
The way players are now they really should be given a fitness programme for the 2 months they have off and then come straight back to football work |
Agreed.
There's a basic mantra in training - you get fit to train, not train to get fit.
They should be arriving in great shape. | |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 14:06 - Jul 9 with 1878 views | robith |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 14:29 - Jul 9 with 1795 views | BAWHoops |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:44 - Jul 9 by Northernr |
TBF, judging by their Instagrams, a lot of them go away to/with personal trainers. Dan Edwards who's worked at QPR has been working with Dan James all summer, Grant Hall has been in a training camp, as has Eze and a few others, Ilias Chair seemed to do a hell of a lot of distance running in between sitting on a beach and sitting in the front seat of a car listening to horrendous music.
Exceptions
- Joe Lumley and Ryan Manning went on a lads lads lads holiday to one of those swimming pools that's absolutely rammed full of good looking people jumping up and down to music even worse than that in Ilias Chair's car. But then Lumley's a keeper, and Ryan Manning is the fittest lad in the world, so it doesn't matter.
- Jack Wilshere likes to work his way through 40 fags a day in LA hot tubs to get him ready for the rigours of half a dozen ill-judged sliding tackles followed by three months in the treatment room. |
Lumley and Manning’s summer jollies looked ridiculous. Could see the booze wafting from their pores in the first few photos club put up.
By no means am I saying players shouldn’t have time off, but those two especially aren’t guaranteed their spot in the team next year and their choice to go he’ll for leather with the lads as opposed to a low key summer seems odd.
But then that’s just social media and not the whole story. If we are going by what we see online then Adel Taarabt is the fittest man on the planet.
And yes.... Chair’s music was hideous |  |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 14:31 - Jul 9 with 1789 views | PinnerPaul |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:27 - Jul 9 by Northernr |
I wonder if a manager has ever come into a club and found the players' fitness to his liking?
It's such a bullsht football cliche. Managers love it because there's no palpable way to prove they were unfit before he came, nor that they're fitter now he's been here a few weeks, but it buys him a few weeks grace. |
Well I think there ARE ways of measuring fitness now.
They wear those vests, do all sorts of tests and have all sorts of readings done.
As you say though, no manager is ever going to say they haven't improved the players fitness levels! | | | |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 14:51 - Jul 9 with 1730 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:36 - Jul 9 by daveB |
Always seems mad to me how much fitness work they do in pre season, it's the one time of year when they have no pressure on games playing games winning points etc so can really work on team shape and a way of playing, set pieces etc but spend most of the 4 weeks running up hills.
The way players are now they really should be given a fitness programme for the 2 months they have off and then come straight back to football work |
Exactly. How unfit can you even get in a month considering they all look after themselves anyway (Adel excepted)? | |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 14:51 - Jul 9 with 1729 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:41 - Jul 9 by Phil_i_P_Daddy |
Dieng Dieng, surely...? |
BRAVO. | |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 15:00 - Jul 9 with 1696 views | rsonist |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 14:29 - Jul 9 by BAWHoops |
Lumley and Manning’s summer jollies looked ridiculous. Could see the booze wafting from their pores in the first few photos club put up.
By no means am I saying players shouldn’t have time off, but those two especially aren’t guaranteed their spot in the team next year and their choice to go he’ll for leather with the lads as opposed to a low key summer seems odd.
But then that’s just social media and not the whole story. If we are going by what we see online then Adel Taarabt is the fittest man on the planet.
And yes.... Chair’s music was hideous |
Should be a contractual obligation that every player gets blackout wnkered at least once on hols. How can we ever trust a man that doesn't? | | | |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 15:07 - Jul 9 with 1651 views | CLAREMAN1995 |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:11 - Jul 9 by CroydonCaptJack |
In a way Kate Bush would have been proud of. |
That name brings back a lot of nice memories from my younger days.I imagined I was Peter Gabriel many times with Kate holding on tight  .Where is she now I wonder .
As for QPR exciting times ahead I feel | | | |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 16:15 - Jul 9 with 1508 views | Esox_Lucius |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:11 - Jul 9 by CroydonCaptJack |
In a way Kate Bush would have been proud of. |
They should have made a pre season deal with God. |  |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 16:15 - Jul 9 with 1507 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 15:00 - Jul 9 by rsonist |
Should be a contractual obligation that every player gets blackout wnkered at least once on hols. How can we ever trust a man that doesn't? |
Well, true. Fair point. | |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 16:24 - Jul 9 with 1483 views | kensalriser |
Unless you're Yeovil, what's the point of practising running up hills? | |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 16:57 - Jul 9 with 1381 views | TacticalR |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 16:24 - Jul 9 by kensalriser |
Unless you're Yeovil, what's the point of practising running up hills? |
Players need to show they would run through brick walls for the manager. | |
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| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 17:14 - Jul 9 with 1339 views | Northernr |
| Ding Ding! Another one on the pre-season bingo on 13:44 - Jul 9 by Northernr |
TBF, judging by their Instagrams, a lot of them go away to/with personal trainers. Dan Edwards who's worked at QPR has been working with Dan James all summer, Grant Hall has been in a training camp, as has Eze and a few others, Ilias Chair seemed to do a hell of a lot of distance running in between sitting on a beach and sitting in the front seat of a car listening to horrendous music.
Exceptions
- Joe Lumley and Ryan Manning went on a lads lads lads holiday to one of those swimming pools that's absolutely rammed full of good looking people jumping up and down to music even worse than that in Ilias Chair's car. But then Lumley's a keeper, and Ryan Manning is the fittest lad in the world, so it doesn't matter.
- Jack Wilshere likes to work his way through 40 fags a day in LA hot tubs to get him ready for the rigours of half a dozen ill-judged sliding tackles followed by three months in the treatment room. |
Sorry, a further exemption
- Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford spent a summer shouting 'beans beans beans' at a fancy dress party in their hotel room to which only they were invited. LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE. | | | |
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