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Daniel Farke

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At Easter in 78 - we played Friday, Saturday and Monday on worse pitches and a miles smaller squad - on the Monday game at Bury we had no centre halves as Baxter and Cross were injured so we played with midfielders Doyle and Coleman there - nowadays we have two teams to pick from
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true..... bu it was a good day out @ Bury until the last minute! ' Derek Spence spoilt it.
 
sports rehab said:
true..... bu it was a good day out @ Bury until the last minute! ' Derek Spence spoilt it.
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I remember that. I’m testing my memory, it was over 40 years ago, the old Gigg Lane didn’t have any barrier between the away and home ends, so PNE fans just ran along the paddock to have a go at the Bury fans after the goal.
 
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@sports rehab maybe you can help out here. Something I’ve wondered about for a while. Is it unfair to expect players to churn out two games a week or are they not fit enough? Hoping not to sound judgy as I’m sure there are physiological reasons here, but I ask with one eye on two things:

1) Tennis - high octane sport, often games last 4+ hours and players play 3 or 4 in a week. Do football coaches and fitness staff need to look at their training regimes?

2) Runners... on average a football player seems to cover around 10k in the 90 minutes, a mix of low and high impact, depending on their position. As a runner myself (and nearly 50 years old) I can comfortably run 10k in between 45 and 50 minutes depending on the terrain and not have any issues with doing this day after day. The only time I need more than a day recovery between runs is if I have done 16k plus.

Is there more too it than this? Am I missing something, maybe the physical bashing footballers get has an impact?
 
Mooney said:
@sports rehab maybe you can help out here. Something I’ve wondered about for a while. Is it unfair to expect players to churn out two games a week or are they not fit enough? Hoping not to sound judgy as I’m sure there are physiological reasons here, but I ask with one eye on two things:

1) Tennis - high octane sport, often games last 4+ hours and players play 3 or 4 in a week. Do football coaches and fitness staff need to look at their training regimes?

2) Runners... on average a football player seems to cover around 10k in the 90 minutes, a mix of low and high impact, depending on their position. As a runner myself (and nearly 50 years old) I can comfortably run 10k in between 45 and 50 minutes depending on the terrain and not have any issues with doing this day after day. The only time I need more than a day recovery between runs is if I have done 16k plus.

Is there more too it than this? Am I missing something, maybe the physical bashing footballers get has an impact?
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Hi Mooney - yes there is far more to it than that... I will PM you a fuller answer... but things like age; positional play (how many short sprints or twists and turns a player might make) come into it. Also 'mental fatigue comes into it to..... runners can go into semi auto pilot; tennis players are often just repeating the same moves per opponent.. and rarely spring further than 20 metres... etc

lots more science involved than fans realise... hence the gps stuff..
 
JK said:


As I have just pointed out to a Norwich fan who has accused us of not showing any class.

We are on a shocking run of form, just sacked our manager, confidence is low & we desperately need the points to starve of a relegation battle, we need any advantage we can get. Nothing to do with class, the fact Norwich have a team of internationals is not Preston North End's fault.
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Nah, dont bother about that, just tell them that it was that bast@rd AN and that’s why we sacked him 😉😉😉😁😁😁
 
Farke certainly thought the game was won when he took off Pukki (should have had about four) and Cantwell. We never looked like doing anything... but who cares? We where due that luck. Massive goal and massive point gained.
 
JK said:
Farke certainly thought the game was won when he took off Pukki (should have had about four) and Cantwell. We never looked like doing anything... but who cares? We where due that luck. Massive goal and massive point gained.
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Exactly pal, the history books will say 1-1.

Not, but, but we should have won because my player missed about 4 great chances.

Farke off Daniel.
 
ashtonwhite said:
At Easter in 78 - we played Friday, Saturday and Monday on worse pitches and a miles smaller squad - on the Monday game at Bury we had no centre halves as Baxter and Cross were injured so we played with midfielders Doyle and Coleman there - nowadays we have two teams to pick from
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We played Wrexham away on Easter Saturday ..... what a great day out

We took 5,000 fans who were all packed in behind the goal - the ground was full with about 20,000 there in total.

Wrexham were top of the division and we were 3rd.... the game finished 0-0

My main memory of the day was the North End fans throwing a bag of sugar at Dai Davies in the Wrexham goal....... or was it flour ??
 
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