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Fitness Levels

Heck Tuah said:
We don't need to do that though if we are sensible and when and how we press the other team.

We can be a low possession/counter attacking team and not be completely shot after 60 mins. Just get back into a shape that's difficult to break down instead of trying to win the ball back higher up the pitch. Much easier to sustain.
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At that point are we not just... Not a pressing team? Being passive and unable to keep possession sounds like a recipe for getting battered.
 
First time on today this season and the biggest thing that stood out was just how far off professional fitness levels some of them look. First half was okay-ish. There were some decent passages of play and a few players looked useful — Leroy in particular showed some ecsxellent touches and vision.
Second half though was shocking. We disappeared physically. Heavy legs, players looking knackered, no intensity and no ability to keep the same tempo going. - and mental tiredness too..
I’ve trained and competed in endurance sport to a very decent level, so I’m pretty confident I can recognise when somebody is genuinely physically cooked rather than simply not trying. To me, this didn’t look like a lack of effort. It looked like a lack of conditioning.
Some of them quite clearly need what amounts to a proper pre-season. Not a few sharper sessions — a proper block of conditioning work to get them capable of sustaining professional intensity for 90 minutes.
And personally, I’d have them in tomorrow. Recovery work, assessment, then straight into a proper conditioning programme. You can’t just wait for match fitness to magically appear when the physical drop-off is that obvious.
Erabi looked poor , although ironically he looked like one of the fitter players.
There are clearly some decent footballers in the squad, but the drop-off after half-time was massive. If that’s where the fitness levels currently are, there’s a lot of work needed.
Sadly, I think it’s too late.
 
StayathomeFan said:
First time on today this season and the biggest thing that stood out was just how far off professional fitness levels some of them look. First half was okay-ish. There were some decent passages of play and a few players looked useful — Leroy in particular showed some ecsxellent touches and vision.
Second half though was shocking. We disappeared physically. Heavy legs, players looking knackered, no intensity and no ability to keep the same tempo going. - and mental tiredness too..
I’ve trained and competed in endurance sport to a very decent level, so I’m pretty confident I can recognise when somebody is genuinely physically cooked rather than simply not trying. To me, this didn’t look like a lack of effort. It looked like a lack of conditioning.
Some of them quite clearly need what amounts to a proper pre-season. Not a few sharper sessions — a proper block of conditioning work to get them capable of sustaining professional intensity for 90 minutes.
And personally, I’d have them in tomorrow. Recovery work, assessment, then straight into a proper conditioning programme. You can’t just wait for match fitness to magically appear when the physical drop-off is that obvious.
Erabi looked poor , although ironically he looked like one of the fitter players.
There are clearly some decent footballers in the squad, but the drop-off after half-time was massive. If that’s where the fitness levels currently are, there’s a lot of work needed.
Sadly, I think it’s too late.
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Another post that is AI slop.
 
Longshanks said:
Check gptzero it's normally on the money. That cretin uses a chatbot consistently to form their posts
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The other 4 sites I gave it had it as human. Maybe they use it for some posts but it’s not consistent. AI doesn’t leave a space before a comma
 
The biggest thing so far to me, this Season has been overall fitness levels and how far behind we seem to be compared to other Clubs.
I am going to keep banging on about it on here and facebook until someone at the Club or in the media comes out and accepts or addresses it.

Even a bog standard joe public fan sat in the stand can see the fitness and stamina levels drop around the hour mark - whereas everybody else we play maintains the same level and intensity.
Who is either not doing there job properly or WHY do we seem to be less fit than everyone else we have played after the hour mark?

I would like, for now a simple acknowledgement from maybe GA that, yes it's something we need to work on!
It's too late to get fitter than most teams but we have to at least get up to everyone else's levels or we will be relegated because the Players weren't fit enough as much as anything else.
How lamentable would that be??!!
 
jakehake said:
The other 4 sites I gave it had it as human. Maybe they use it for some posts but it’s not consistent. AI doesn’t leave a space before a comma
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not saying i did use AI on any posts, not saying i didnt either. maybe i did maybe i didnt... better ask an AI bot to check
How ironic. people moaning about AI then trusting another bit of AI to decide if somthing was written by AI in the first place. you couldnt make it up.
and where exactly is the line anyway? spell checker? predictive text? dictation? A secretary writing a letter from your notes or your dictation, someone proof reading it? if the thoughts and opinions are yours and youre using something to put them into w
better and more readable words then whats actually the problem. Its completly different to getting AI to think for you then blindly posting whatever it comes out with. all seems a bit daft really.
 
jakehake said:
The other 4 sites I gave it had it as human. Maybe they use it for some posts but it’s not consistent. AI doesn’t leave a space before a comma
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I did wonder if AI could be used to form the majority of a post and human touches added afterwards to make it look non AI?
 
deepdaledreamer said:
The biggest thing so far to me, this Season has been overall fitness levels and how far behind we seem to be compared to other Clubs.
I am going to keep banging on about it on here and facebook until someone at the Club or in the media comes out and accepts or addresses it.

Even a bog standard joe public fan sat in the stand can see the fitness and stamina levels drop around the hour mark - whereas everybody else we play maintains the same level and intensity.
Who is either not doing there job properly or WHY do we seem to be less fit than everyone else we have played after the hour mark?

I would like, for now a simple acknowledgement from maybe GA that, yes it's something we need to work on!
It's too late to get fitter than most teams but we have to at least get up to everyone else's levels or we will be relegated because the Players weren't fit enough as much as anything else.
How lamentable would that be??!!
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They also have to care enough to get fit. Jebbison took matters into his own hands last season but was stopped when he got injured.
 
How many goals are we letting in during the last quarter of games? It’s both physical and mental fitness with this lot. Or lack of. Plus the lack of a decent subs bench. If these unfit players like Potts are out on long term injuries the ‘rinse and repeat’ will not work ‘ ie get rid and replace
 
twickerspne said:
How many goals are we letting in during the last quarter of games? It’s both physical and mental fitness with this lot. Or lack of. Plus the lack of a decent subs bench. If these unfit players like Potts are out on long term injuries the ‘rinse and repeat’ will not work ‘ ie get rid and replace
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All I could do yesterday was visit the match stats page every 5 or 10 minutes... and the picture Iot in my head was exactly that... the tide seemed to be turning from about the hour mark... all leading up to the inevitable late goal.
 
Bobbage said:
How that lad only turned 30 today I do not know.

Got to be on a dodgy passport...
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He has a good cross on him and does get up and down in the first 30mins but any bursts of high intensity he's blowing like fuck and cannot recover and after 30mins you might as well sub him off. No questioning the effort.

Fitness is just another attribute imo, where we end up shopping, that's our choice btw, we end up with these sorts of players who good in some areas absolutely rancid in others.
 
I think most of the players fitness is ok…but if your the one chasing the ball all the time while the other teams passes round and through you then your gonna be knackered in no time..altho some players like pol were knackered after 10 mins lol.
 
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