Do Brentford really have 48 hours more recovery time than SWFC?

[DuttyTeabags]

All of the other EFL Cup fixtures other than ours are played tonight. No games Weds. We play Thurs.

 

Wtf! Bonkers and surprised it's not been raised by the club. I guess there'll be some much needed income ...

[matthefish2002]

Swings and roundabouts to me.

Be other times when Wednesday have more recovery time then opposition.

Doubt many of the players will play in both anyway.

Also the games are going to happen anyway so dont make excuses for a bad performance before a ball has been kicked.

Edited August 14, 2018 by matthefish2002

[bladeshater]

Jos shouldn't play 1 player he considers for Sunday 

[watty]

All this rubbish about recovery time does my head in , I'm working at 6 Thursday morning , off to the match at 1.30 will get back early hours Friday then back at work at 6 again , no complaints about recovery time , the players are so called trained athletes stop complaining and let him get on with what their paid very well to do FFS .

[brando]

49 minutes ago, watty said:

All this rubbish about recovery time does my head in , I'm working at 6 Thursday morning , off to the match at 1.30 will get back early hours Friday then back at work at 6 again , no complaints about recovery time , the players are so called trained athletes stop complaining and let him get on with what their paid very well to do FFS .

spot on bud,its laughable.

[RUMBELOWS91]

51 minutes ago, watty said:

All this rubbish about recovery time does my head in , I'm working at 6 Thursday morning , off to the match at 1.30 will get back early hours Friday then back at work at 6 again , no complaints about recovery time , the players are so called trained athletes stop complaining and let him get on with what their paid very well to do FFS .

What do you do?

 

[supersiggi]

If we were playing Thursday - Saturday it would be an issue but we should be ok. 

But there is a serious point about players picking up serious injuries when playing with knocks or when not ready. We've seen that in very recent times.

 

Always surprises me how after a 'tough' pre-season players are still not ready.

Watched Newcastle game the other day. Their lads were low in out their arses after about an hour.

 

Be interesting to see what pre-season consists of nowadays. A mate of mine played professionally (lower leagues) in the late 90s. His pre-season was basically run til your physically sick. And then some more. Guess things have moved on since then.

[@owlstalk]

1 hour ago, watty said:

All this rubbish about recovery time does my head in , I'm working at 6 Thursday morning , off to the match at 1.30 will get back early hours Friday then back at work at 6 again , no complaints about recovery time , the players are so called trained athletes stop complaining and let him get on with what their paid very well to do FFS .

 

Anyone who thinks this is true should simply just stop watching football

The focus levels, concentration, sheer speed and velocity of the game, plus physical challenges mean that it's nothing like someone going to work in Sheff. 

Nothing like.

 

[sheriwozgod]

3 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:

 

Anyone who thinks this is true should simply just stop watching football

The focus levels, concentration, sheer speed and velocity of the game, plus physical challenges mean that it's nothing like someone going to work in Sheff. 

Nothing like.

 

 

Maybe not.......................but the class of 91 managed a FULL championship season, got to the 5th round of the FA cup....and WON the league cup (complete with replays and two legged semi final)  all with pretty much the same 15 or 16 players, so 3 games a week IS doable if we are being honest .

[Pulsar]

7 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:

 

physical challenges mean that it's nothing like someone going to work in Sheff. 

Nothing like.

 

 

 

Have you tried shopping in Meadowhall?

 

It does my head in too Neil tbf.

They used to play Christmas day AND Boxing day in years gone by.

Yes, the skill levels and fitness are on a different plane now but it didn't stop old players blowing out of their arses.

 

It's all relative so stop being simplistic.

[Leaping Lannys Perm]

Three days recovery time is normal in the Championship so I don't really see much of an issue, especially this early in the season.

 

It's nothing on the Middlesbrough game a few Christmases back when they had 11 days off and we had two. That game still went ahead.

[Beauchief Owl]

I think some of our stars ought to be available on Thursday, if only on the bench ready to come on after an hour or so if the match is in the balance. Surely this wouldn't be harder than training. We need a good cup run and the revenue it can produce. 

[sweetsheri]

Surprised we aren’t playing Saturday tbh

[torryowl]

1 hour ago, watty said:

All this rubbish about recovery time does my head in , I'm working at 6 Thursday morning , off to the match at 1.30 will get back early hours Friday then back at work at 6 again , no complaints about recovery time , the players are so called trained athletes stop complaining and let him get on with what their paid very well to do FFS .

I tend to agree with you but the medical boffins have proved that 2 games in such a short period increase the risk of muscle/pulls/strains  injuries . …….do you ignore them, play twice in 72 hours and take the risk that bannan or FF don't pull up lame in the second game and be out for 6 weeks ……. 

[Guest addedtime]

Do we get an extra two days rest for Sunderland though?

[Pulsar]

2 minutes ago, torryowl said:

I tend to agree with you but the medical boffins have proved that 2 games in such a short period increase the risk of muscle/pulls/strains  injuries . …….do you ignore them

 

 

Yes, ignore them.

We used to play every day for hours on end during our school holidays and I'm talking full pelt. Rarely got any pulls ir injuries and when we did, our bodies and joints were so used to the rigours of playing all the time that our bodies just laughed in the face of injuries.

 

I've also heard experts say that if every professional player simply played 90 minutes of football EVERY day instead of training, then his body, sinews and fitness would be at the absolute optimum for......

well a 90 minute game on a Saturday.

 

Makes chuffin sense!

 

Booo to training, ya can't beat playing football to prepare for playing football FFS!

[33]

It will be the football world's vendetta against SWFC 

[Spencerowl]

36 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:

 

Anyone who thinks this is true should simply just stop watching football

The focus levels, concentration, sheer speed and velocity of the game, plus physical challenges mean that it's nothing like someone going to work in Sheff. 

Nothing like.

 

[sibon]

35 minutes ago, sheriwozgod said:

 

Maybe not.......................but the class of 91 managed a FULL championship season, got to the 5th round of the FA cup....and WON the league cup (complete with replays and two legged semi final)  all with pretty much the same 15 or 16 players, so 3 games a week IS doable if we are being honest .

Yes, but the class of 91 employed some specialist rehydration techniques that would be frowned upon these days.

[Rogers]

35 minutes ago, sheriwozgod said:

 

Maybe not.......................but the class of 91 managed a FULL championship season, got to the 5th round of the FA cup....and WON the league cup (complete with replays and two legged semi final)  all with pretty much the same 15 or 16 players, so 3 games a week IS doable if we are being honest .

Proper players though.. you wouldn’t have Nilsson, Palmer, Pearson, Anderson, etc whinging amd being injured all the time. 

 

Different breed