| Three game week - the modern excuse 06:50 - Mar 1 with 2041 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 10:14 - Mar 2 with 514 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 21:49 - Mar 1 by 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. |
I remember a few years ago on here, a long-running debate about how amateurish our warm-up routines looked compared to our opponents.
Whereas the oppo would come out and go through organised drills etc., our lot ambled out, did some keepy uppys, bit of running and maybe, if the oppo were a tricky lot, a bit of trying to hit the crossbar.
At HT, their subs bench were all out doing more drills and being put through their paces whereas our lot, not so much!
That has got nothing to do with resources, historical or otherwise, and everything to do with professionalism. Whatever our plight, and I am sure we are paying a lot of moolar to the many individuals with the word 'performance' in their job spec, getting professional athletes: fit, conditioned, and warmed up is something we do seem to struggle with and frankly, I can't think of a valid excuse the club could come up with to justify it. |  |
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| Three game week - the modern excuse on 10:44 - Mar 2 with 457 views | wombat |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 10:14 - Mar 2 by PlanetHonneywood |
I remember a few years ago on here, a long-running debate about how amateurish our warm-up routines looked compared to our opponents.
Whereas the oppo would come out and go through organised drills etc., our lot ambled out, did some keepy uppys, bit of running and maybe, if the oppo were a tricky lot, a bit of trying to hit the crossbar.
At HT, their subs bench were all out doing more drills and being put through their paces whereas our lot, not so much!
That has got nothing to do with resources, historical or otherwise, and everything to do with professionalism. Whatever our plight, and I am sure we are paying a lot of moolar to the many individuals with the word 'performance' in their job spec, getting professional athletes: fit, conditioned, and warmed up is something we do seem to struggle with and frankly, I can't think of a valid excuse the club could come up with to justify it. |
we dont even send the players out at half time in recent games so not sure where thats all about either |  |
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| Three game week - the modern excuse on 11:16 - Mar 2 with 417 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 10:44 - Mar 2 by wombat |
we dont even send the players out at half time in recent games so not sure where thats all about either |
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| Three game week - the modern excuse on 11:20 - Mar 2 with 410 views | Padulas_Shampoo |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 10:44 - Mar 2 by wombat |
we dont even send the players out at half time in recent games so not sure where thats all about either |
Nor for the first 10 mins of the second half. |  | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 12:34 - Mar 2 with 349 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 10:44 - Mar 2 by wombat |
we dont even send the players out at half time in recent games so not sure where thats all about either |
I normally return to my spot as we’re trundling out in twos and threes with the opposition ready and waiting. Returned a bit earlier on Saturday to see all of their subs warming up including goalkeepers and none of ours and then we took to the pitch well after they did. I can’t believe JS/staff aren’t picking up a link between this and our awful form early in second halves. | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 13:18 - Mar 2 with 290 views | TheChef |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 12:34 - Mar 2 by Watford_Ranger |
I normally return to my spot as we’re trundling out in twos and threes with the opposition ready and waiting. Returned a bit earlier on Saturday to see all of their subs warming up including goalkeepers and none of ours and then we took to the pitch well after they did. I can’t believe JS/staff aren’t picking up a link between this and our awful form early in second halves. |
Probably worried about subs getting injured in the half time warm up  |  |
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| Three game week - the modern excuse on 14:09 - Mar 2 with 235 views | francisbowles |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 10:14 - Mar 2 by PlanetHonneywood |
I remember a few years ago on here, a long-running debate about how amateurish our warm-up routines looked compared to our opponents.
Whereas the oppo would come out and go through organised drills etc., our lot ambled out, did some keepy uppys, bit of running and maybe, if the oppo were a tricky lot, a bit of trying to hit the crossbar.
At HT, their subs bench were all out doing more drills and being put through their paces whereas our lot, not so much!
That has got nothing to do with resources, historical or otherwise, and everything to do with professionalism. Whatever our plight, and I am sure we are paying a lot of moolar to the many individuals with the word 'performance' in their job spec, getting professional athletes: fit, conditioned, and warmed up is something we do seem to struggle with and frankly, I can't think of a valid excuse the club could come up with to justify it. |
You're correct on the first it but partly wrong on the second. It's both. We have a disadvantage but we do little to overcome it. | | | |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 14:26 - Mar 2 with 204 views | Logman |
Another thing which is a bit ridiculous is posting the three outlying players right on the halfway line when we're defending corners. I do agree with leaving one or two up but Walsh struggles to kick the ball accurately to the halfway line when he has a full six seconds yet alone when he's in a rush to do it before the opposition players get back.
If we are going to leave three players out (which I agree with) it should be two on the halfway line, both reasonably centrally but splitting the middle and one about halfway for a headed clearance.
Does anyone actually think we are going to find any of the three on the halfway line from one of our own corners in all time that we adopt this tactic ? | | | |
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| Three game week - the modern excuse on 14:34 - Mar 2 with 171 views | francisbowles |
| Three game week - the modern excuse on 14:26 - Mar 2 by Logman |
Another thing which is a bit ridiculous is posting the three outlying players right on the halfway line when we're defending corners. I do agree with leaving one or two up but Walsh struggles to kick the ball accurately to the halfway line when he has a full six seconds yet alone when he's in a rush to do it before the opposition players get back.
If we are going to leave three players out (which I agree with) it should be two on the halfway line, both reasonably centrally but splitting the middle and one about halfway for a headed clearance.
Does anyone actually think we are going to find any of the three on the halfway line from one of our own corners in all time that we adopt this tactic ? |
It does clear a bit more space for Walsh and the defence to deal with the corner. | | | |
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