Yank Man wrote:morell wrote:Hey everyone, welcome to my list of...
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morell's Football Myths!
1. You play the way you train.
2. Pre-seasons are really important in amateur football.
3. Stretching achieves anything, ever.
4. Every club pays players.
5. Getting to a game early allows for a superior preperation.
6. Business slacks make you a more professional and disciplined club.
This has clearly been done to death morell, BUT,
1. You DO play the way you train, over the season and not week by week.
2. Pre-seasons are critical in amatuer footy. To build the bond and unite the group. Not trash em.
3. Stretching is EVERYTHING at amatuer league level, it dramatically improves recovery before a night on the piss.
4. Most clubs pay a handful of players, that's why they progress.
5. Professional clubs encourage A grade players to get to the oval early to support the B's. Thus improving preparation.
6. Club attire is a 50/50. For me, most of the class of 2011/12 at MP were plumbers, electricians, concreters, mechanics, brikkies, laborers etc, etc. More than half of them worked for themselves so getting dolled up to go to the footy and play Saturday was like going to a wedding or funeral for them. So all I asked was to wear a club top and dress like you liked yourself. They all dressed to the nines for club functions I might say, and that was their choice as a group. Tells you something about a premiership team I guess.
1. Yeah exactly, you’re pretty much agreeing with me I think. I would say that the intention of when people bring a group in and trot out the “cmon lads, it’s a big game on Saturday, you play the way you train” line has got its foundation in improving that particular session. I think what we’re getting at is more based around establishing an overarching culture and ethos, which pervades everything a club does, rather than specifically lifting your work rate for circle work.
2. I would say pre seasons are moderately important for divisions lower than 5. I think you need to have a reasonably solid fitness base to be able to compete, but reckon the pendulum has swung too far and we’re putting too much emphasis on aerobic fitness and not enough emphasis on talent, skill, intelligence, courage and veracity for the contest. We have some very, very fit footballers who cannot execute the simplest of skills within the game. Some people are also naturally fit and don’t need as much work as others, there are also plenty of people like me that just do not have a strong capacity for running, not matter how much we waddle around. Plus, by I reckon round 10, everyone is as fit as everyone else, or, at least, the average fitness across the teams are pretty equal.
3. Codswallop Yanky! Time to update your thinking. Please have a look at this, as it really does summarise it really well. Essentially it's a study of a bunch of stretching studies. It has created a measurement which takes the mean of power, responsiveness, strength etc before and after stretching and the plotted the % change. Although the negative impacts are negligible, it’s pretty clear stretching really does next to nothing:
This is quantifiable, empirical, proven, scientific evidence that stretching before a game does diddly.
I would say the much more beneficial thing to do in terms of health and performance for sport in regards to “nights on the piss” is to .. not have “nights on the piss”.
4. Whilst true, and very sad in my opinion, I still think it’s myth that every club does.
5. How does watching the B’s improve preparation for the A Grade game? It might be something that’s good for the club and nice to do for you team mates, but it doesn’t really help you prepare. Hey I enjoy it anyway, so I was always there early, but I used to hate it when I would get dragged in from enjoying my early afternoon watching my mates play in the B’s to hear people prattle on about nothing much in particular for 30 minutes. I reckon ensuring everyone is ready before the coaches address, say 10 minutes before the game is plenty of time. Of course getting to the game early doesn’t stop Friday nights out, eating the wrong food for breakfast, taking no doze or any other of the things which would actually have a significant impact on one's preparation.
It’s a funny thing though, everyone is different, which is why I subscribe to the Joe Leck school of thinking – “do whatever works for you”.
6. So you agree with me than
. Club top for the A Grade is something I would strongly encourage, but not insist. If someone doesn't want to wear it so be it, we’re not in the army, but it might count against that person when it comes time to determine who the leaders are, who the coach thinks is a team player, selection on Thursday nights etc.Wearing black slacks and dress shoes however is a complete load of wank.
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Haha, anyway, always fun Yanky!
SOS for Dr Gevorkian........
