| Three game week - the modern excuse 06:50 - Mar 1 with 2069 views | dead_ott |
When did "three game weeks" become a standard excuse in Championship football? For as long as I've been watching football games have been played in midweek. There are 46 league games and not 46 weekends in a season, so games need to be played midweek. If you are aspiring to be the top of your profession, you will be playing cup games and in Europe, also necessitating "three game weeks". Why is this roled out as an excuse for playing utter crap, frequently by Rangers managers over the past few seasons? Who started it, why is it accepted?!
And anyway, it's a two game week: midweek and weekend. You can't have two Saturdays in the game week! |  | | |  |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 07:40 - Mar 1 with 1471 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Before the club's starts trying to worry us about the rigours of 3GWs, it wasn't as if we were the masters of 2GWs!
I get it that the game is more athletic, but if you're going to make 3GWs the central excuse/explanation for struggling, then it's even more reason to buy physically fit athletes in the first instance and have a 'fit' for purpose medico-rehab and fitness teams thereafter.
QPR are not 'fit' for purpose under the current thinking. We started unfit and have looked more and more fatigued as the season's gone on, with fewer and fewer players as well!! |  |
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| Three game week - the modern excuse on 07:46 - Mar 1 with 1444 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
Remember Stephan was supposedly hired because he was a specialist in managing three-game weeks.  | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 07:55 - Mar 1 with 1433 views | loftus77 |
Blackburn home game miserable 1-3 loss recently. No 3 game week in sight. Infact we had an extra day off with the previous 0-0 at Charlton being on the Friday 8 days prior.
It's all rubbish imho. Just an excuse thrown out by many clubs. These are young professional athletes. | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 07:58 - Mar 1 with 1422 views | colinallcars |
3GW looks set to be another abbreviation in common usage on LFW, especially for those ITK.
The team look NFG to me. |  | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 08:15 - Mar 1 with 1378 views | NorthantsHoop |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 07:55 - Mar 1 by loftus77 |
Blackburn home game miserable 1-3 loss recently. No 3 game week in sight. Infact we had an extra day off with the previous 0-0 at Charlton being on the Friday 8 days prior.
It's all rubbish imho. Just an excuse thrown out by many clubs. These are young professional athletes. |
Exactly |  | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 08:31 - Mar 1 with 1339 views | SK_hoops |
Not long ago we had Barbet who once played every second of a season. | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 08:35 - Mar 1 with 1325 views | ozexile |
Some teams manage it fine. Most in fact. They also manage to make an effort in cup games. Must be sorcery. | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 09:12 - Mar 1 with 1265 views | francisbowles |
Three game weeks ARE a reality and to argue otherwise is just quibbling over semantics.
There is an advantage to the clubs with the money.
They have larger squads and bigger, stronger, more athletic and fitter players.
They can therefore rotate more, rest tired players and have less need to rush back injured ones.
Some clubs without riches manage to overcome some of this and outperform their budget. We cannot seem to do this and with the number of three game weeks, it is holding us back enormously.
We were correct to identify this and try and overcome it. However, we have failed to recruit enough bigger, stronger, athletic, fitter players and in our squad management.
It must be top of the list when we prepare for next season. | | | |
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| Three game week - the modern excuse on 09:14 - Mar 1 with 1260 views | bosh67 |
I'd argue that some other clubs manage 3 game weeks better at this stage of the season because they have the resources and depth of squad to do so. |  |
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| Three game week - the modern excuse on 09:38 - Mar 1 with 1185 views | Malintabuk |
Totally agree with the sentiments 3GW are part and parcel of this league
We can argue the semantics about 46 games ina season is far too much now. The game is faster, players are bigger, stronger and fitter, and so 46 games back in the day is totally different to 46 games now
But clubs are not going to agree to cutting down the size of the league, and lose revenue days.. so the slog will continue, and there the standard will be what is is now"slop"
Of course the clubs with better finance will be the winners... and now we are coming to the sharp end of the season, the bigger clubs are coming into their own. There are exceptions, Millwall, and even Hull, but they are exceptions
We have been really poor in our recruitment, and I guess we are a product of our finances. We can't afford the big athletic players, so we have gone for smaller, "ballers" .... which doesn't seem to work
The only thing I will say, is I think this year we have been on the end of many more 3GW where we are away for 2 of them ...and that can't be right, surely it should even itself out...
But bottom line our fitness levels are shocking, out non-performance department is a joke | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 11:05 - Mar 1 with 1113 views | 222gers |
Bloody abbreviations. One of these days I'll be DOA at LR ( Drunk On Arrival ) |  | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 11:05 - Mar 1 with 1113 views | nix |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 09:12 - Mar 1 by francisbowles |
Three game weeks ARE a reality and to argue otherwise is just quibbling over semantics.
There is an advantage to the clubs with the money.
They have larger squads and bigger, stronger, more athletic and fitter players.
They can therefore rotate more, rest tired players and have less need to rush back injured ones.
Some clubs without riches manage to overcome some of this and outperform their budget. We cannot seem to do this and with the number of three game weeks, it is holding us back enormously.
We were correct to identify this and try and overcome it. However, we have failed to recruit enough bigger, stronger, athletic, fitter players and in our squad management.
It must be top of the list when we prepare for next season. |
Absolutely.
Also people should read the blog on here about the particular situation we have more than many other clubs of the two away games in a row in a three game week and how that affects ALL teams, not just ours in terms of points totals gained during similar weeks.
We already have a big injury situation so we are disproportionately affected by a three game week as we have players coming back from injury or managing minutes because they’ve played too much.
And saying X player has managed to do all the season without injury or being subbed is pointless. There are so many factors involved: his general physiology; the position he plays in the team; the formation being played; the style of play (e.g. lots of pressing or lots of sprints); the colleagues around him - is he covering for less experienced colleagues, for instance; how many times he is tackled on average in a match; the player’s level of experience - a more experienced player will have developed strategies to minimise physical exertion by better positioning, use of the ball etc. ; the quality of the team, are you a possession team so don’t have to win the ball back so often or run back to defend?
Bloody Pep’s high and intensive press has a lot to answer for… |  | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 11:35 - Mar 1 with 1069 views | Third_Division_South |
Club squad resources are a key factor in this. We started with three nineteen year olds, they had the likes of Hamer and Bamford sitting on their bench. | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 11:55 - Mar 1 with 1048 views | qpr_1968 |
shirley we've got 5 subs per game if players feel knackered....
and a squad to rotate players....
but......injuries. | |
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| Three game week - the modern excuse on 12:01 - Mar 1 with 1036 views | Watford_Ranger |
Sheff U played Sunday-Wednesday-Saturday. A derby last week albeit against this iteration of Sheffield Wednesday but found a way to make it difficult for themselves and played half of it with ten men. Coventry obviously a very tough game and they probably deserved something. Then looked like they had about fourteen players against us. | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 12:35 - Mar 1 with 967 views | NewYorkRanger |
I reckon this is all nonsense, but you can let it become an issue if everyone tells you it's an issue. Sub consciously, we may well find ourselves a few percentage points below par in a 3 game week, but it's not 'cos of any physical limitations - it's all in the head. |  |
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| Three game week - the modern excuse on 12:41 - Mar 1 with 950 views | BushRanger82 |
3 game weeks, another, can't do, to add to QPR's list of can't do's, alongside London derbies, cup games, bottom 3 teams. |  | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 14:22 - Mar 1 with 847 views | OldPedro |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 12:01 - Mar 1 by Watford_Ranger |
Sheff U played Sunday-Wednesday-Saturday. A derby last week albeit against this iteration of Sheffield Wednesday but found a way to make it difficult for themselves and played half of it with ten men. Coventry obviously a very tough game and they probably deserved something. Then looked like they had about fourteen players against us. |
The relative strength of their squad (compared to ours) helped SU as did the fact that 2 of their 3 games were at home. |  |
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| Three game week - the modern excuse on 15:02 - Mar 1 with 815 views | terryb |
Return to a 22 club division & that's 4 less midweek matches to fit in!
46 league matches is too many & in this country we make clubs playing at level 6 (National League North & South) do this.
Not that this affects Rangers more than any other club in The Championship! | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 15:38 - Mar 1 with 766 views | Myke |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 11:35 - Mar 1 by Third_Division_South |
Club squad resources are a key factor in this. We started with three nineteen year olds, they had the likes of Hamer and Bamford sitting on their bench. |
Bstards - nicking our keeper from the bench. | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 16:11 - Mar 1 with 713 views | QPROslo |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 14:22 - Mar 1 by OldPedro |
The relative strength of their squad (compared to ours) helped SU as did the fact that 2 of their 3 games were at home. |
Tyler or Sinton said SU made 6 changes for our game with the likes of Hamer and the diver striker able to come on as Subs. With a squad like that 3 game weeks aren't going to be much of a problem especially when they play SW and injury decimated QPR. | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 16:22 - Mar 1 with 682 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 14:22 - Mar 1 by OldPedro |
The relative strength of their squad (compared to ours) helped SU as did the fact that 2 of their 3 games were at home. |
I’m aware of their very strong depth but four of their players played 90 minutes both Wednesday and yesterday and none had an issue plus O’Hare doing the vast majority of both. It’s nearly unthinkable we could have a midfielder run a game like Peck did three days after chasing Coventry around. | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 17:07 - Mar 1 with 567 views | Damo1962 |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 12:41 - Mar 1 by BushRanger82 |
3 game weeks, another, can't do, to add to QPR's list of can't do's, alongside London derbies, cup games, bottom 3 teams. |
We have low standards across the club. It is ingrained, and manifests in the slop we have witnessed the last decade. Fix that...and we may start seeing improvements on the pitch. Sadly, I don't think it will be any different next season. | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 17:11 - Mar 1 with 578 views | StrawberryHillR |
Sheff Utd played the same side for the first two games last week, apart from Soumare coming in for the suspended Phillips.
They then made 6 changes for our game. Apparently the keeper was injured, but the other 5 were from choice. Bringing Cannon and Campbell in for Bamford and Hamer, you can't compare the squad depth, it's not remotely close. | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 21:49 - Mar 1 with 458 views | ManinBlack |
There are times with our levels of fitness, that we look like an amateur team of part timers up against fitter full time professional clubs. Maybe our training standards are below scratch who knows but clubs with the bigger budgets will get the best players and the have nots scrabble around trying to create a competitive squad. |  | | |
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