The "do they mean us?" thread

[Jacnah]

That Arsenal supporter "sploosh" is particularly fascinating.

 

Shows the signs of a typically deluded Gunners fan who can't even understand the logic of Leicester probably playing in Europe next season irrespective of us becoming PL champions or not.

Takes Arsenal's two wins against us as a marker for how good Arsenal really are. I'm speechless. Sir, your team just got dumped out of the FA Cup by Watford FC. Watford!

it also shows a deluded gunners fan who can't see or can't accept that they were on the verge of being beaten at home by a better team until the sending off. Even when we were down to 10 men it took them until the 96th minute and a reckless error from one  of our players

Edited 14 March 2016 by Jacnah

[Captain...]

That Arsenal supporter "sploosh" is particularly fascinating.

 

Shows the signs of a typically deluded Gunners fan who can't even understand the logic of Leicester probably playing in Europe next season irrespective of us becoming PL champions or not.

Takes Arsenal's two wins against us as a marker for how good Arsenal really are. I'm speechless. Sir, your team just got dumped out of the FA Cup by Watford FC. Watford!

 

We were naïve and unlucky in the first game against Arsenal, and they were clinical and probably playing at their best. Second game we had the advantage and the red card cost us, and our game management was poor after the red.

 

Arsenal's best result in the CL this season was when the abandoned their pretty European football and parked the bus against Munich, says  all you need to know about how effective Arsenals attempt to be a junior Barcelona have been.

[DJ Barry Hammond]

Arsenal, Arsenal, Arsenal... They're being mentioned on here more than us of late it seems!

One thing I will say however whilst on the subject - if Arsenal fans took their head out of their arse, they would see that we are doing something their team should be doing more off - quick, incisive football!

With the players they have at their disposal, if they had been coached to do this from minute 1-45, then when they find themselves 3-0 up, then go to possession based play, they'd be lethal.

In fact I dare say they were doing a bit more of us at the start of the season, but they have since largely reverted to "sideways, sideways, forward, sideways, back, sideways, sideways, sideways, fall over.

Edited 14 March 2016 by DJ Barry Hammond

[Countryfox]

Arsenal, Arsenal, Arsenal... They're being mentioned on here more than us of late it seems!

Arsenal.

[LanguedocFox]

The relevant bit for those who don't want to give cretins like the "journalist" the clicks.

 

He does have a point, but the little dig at the end is unnecessary, our key stats are not that much different, it is not like we are running twice as much as any other team, Vardy wasn't slow last season, Morgan had the highest number of blocks last season and Kante was top tackler and interceptor last season.

 

It is also worth mentioning that there is nobody in the club that puts it down to team spirit, our fitness and resistance to injury is down to state of the art facilities and investment in sports science. We are seeing the rewards of being at the forefront of sports science.

 

Of course I am not naïve enough to suggest that there isn't any doping in football, but if there was anything going on on a club wide level then I'm pretty sure there would have been enough disgruntled and pissed off ex-players and staff members that would be all too happy to stick the boot in and get paid for a juicy expose.

 

We've been benefiting from our sports science and fitness set-up throughout the past three or four seasons: there was a half-hour TV documentary about it a couple of years ago, but I've not been able to find a link.

 

Anyway, I'm fairly sure that Matt James is the only player we've had with an ACL injury during the past four or five years (when was the previous one?) and aside from Schmeichel, Moore, Drinkwater and Schlupp, none of our other first team squad have had injuries lasting more than a couple of weeks since we were in the Championship. That's not accidental, and it's certainly not down to performance-enhancing drugs. As you say, it's down to the best sports science/fitness facilities and staff in the country.

[Corky]

The relevant bit for those who don't want to give cretins like the "journalist" the clicks.

 

He does have a point, but the little dig at the end is unnecessary, our key stats are not that much different, it is not like we are running twice as much as any other team, Vardy wasn't slow last season, Morgan had the highest number of blocks last season and Kante was top tackler and interceptor last season.

 

It is also worth mentioning that there is nobody in the club that puts it down to team spirit, our fitness and resistance to injury is down to state of the art facilities and investment in sports science. We are seeing the rewards of being at the forefront of sports science.

 

Of course I am not naïve enough to suggest that there isn't any doping in football, but if there was anything going on on a club wide level then I'm pretty sure there would have been enough disgruntled and pissed off ex-players and staff members that would be all too happy to stick the boot in and get paid for a juicy expose.

 

How does that bloke know they have the same injuries? There are different levels of tears, pulls, breaks, sprains. We may well recover in a quicker time because the injury isn't as serious as another one.

 

As has been said, if we were supposedly doing what is alleged why didn't it happen earlier last season? The reason we are doing well is down to confidence, tactics, ability, motivation, some luck too. I hope we never turn into fans who have to resort to this to play down achievements elsewhere.

[LanguedocFox]

The comments are more interesting. People don't understand the details we are a club are going through to make that extra 1%. Clearly some City fans on there trying to educate, but the majority just dont get it.

 

Will we perform in Europe? Who knows. But we are pretty much nearly there to securing having a chance, which is better than a number of the 'big clubs' who play 'European' style football.

 

 

This.

 

I remember reading an interview with Pearson after we won the Championship (in some style) and he was asked how he'd done it. He said that after the Watford defeat the previous season, he and his key staff - Shakespeare, Walsh, the sports-science team etc - went and spent a weekend at his father-in-law's pub in Shropshire to decide what, if anything, they were going to do.

 

He didn't mention who came up with the thought, but someone raised the idea of doing exactly what Dave Brailsford did with the Sky and UK cycling teams, which was to look look continually at every aspect of every team member's performance, and to aim for marginal improvements. Nothing big, but maybe half a second on a sprint, a tenth of a second in a start and so on. Pearson said that's what they did with the City players: continually aim to make them a little bit better in everything they did - running, shooting, heading, reacting. Seems to have worked!

[ScouseFox]

would be decent if we were on drugs, the less moral and proper way we win the league and the more people we piss off doing so, the better imo

[TheMightySystem]

We've been benefiting from our sports science and fitness set-up throughout the past three or four seasons: there was a half-hour TV documentary about it a couple of years ago, but I've not been able to find a link.

 

Anyway, I'm fairly sure that Matt James is the only player we've had with an ACL injury during the past four or five years (when was the previous one?) and aside from Schmeichel, Moore, Drinkwater and Schlupp, none of our other first team squad have had injuries lasting more than a couple of weeks since we were in the Championship. That's not accidental, and it's certainly not down to performance-enhancing drugs. As you say, it's down to the best sports science/fitness facilities and staff in the country.

Pretty sure Bakayogo got 2 in consecutive seasons, poor sod was never going to get a game with us and when he did he got a serious injury both times.

[Guest ttfn]

would be decent if we were on drugs, the less moral and proper way we win the league and the more people we piss off doing so, the better imo

Imagine Kante on drugs.

[mancunianfox]

That sploosh fella is a Man Utd fan as well, not an Arsenal supporter fwiw.

 

 

This might be a mad view but I think tactically at least we are actually pretty well setup to play in Europe. Success in Europe, especially in the Champions League, is all about grinding out results away from home, ideally getting an away goal and keeping the score down. Is there a team in the PL better at doing at than us? We don't need to worry about teams having 60% possession in European games like Arsenal, United, Chelsea do because we have already learnt how to counter this effectively by being efficient and not turning the ball back over as soon as we win it.

[SpinneyHillRanger]

I think we ciuld give a team like real Madrid all sorts of problem. Atletico would be a battle.

Wouldn't mind if we could sign their tough uruguayn centre half.

[AKCJ]

Imagine Kante on drugs.

 

He'd be like the squirrel in Over The Hedge.

[ScouseFox]

Imagine Kante on drugs.

when he first played at bury an played left mid I said on here he was like schlupp if he dropped an E so god knows what would happen if he took more drugs

[Jimmy]

they really need to do some research and realise our injury record has been outstanding for many years

[filbertstreet]

when he first played at bury an played left mid I said on here he was like schlupp if he dropped an E so god knows what would happen if he took more drugs

jff schlupp?

[LC/FC]

Don't we have a working relationship with Loughborough University, who are one of THE leading sports Universities in the World and a major player in our Olympic teams?

[ajthefox]

This.

 

I remember reading an interview with Pearson after we won the Championship (in some style) and he was asked how he'd done it. He said that after the Watford defeat the previous season, he and his key staff - Shakespeare, Walsh, the sports-science team etc - went and spent a weekend at his father-in-law's pub in Shropshire to decide what, if anything, they were going to do.

 

He didn't mention who came up with the thought, but someone raised the idea of doing exactly what Dave Brailsford did with the Sky and UK cycling teams, which was to look look continually at every aspect of every team member's performance, and to aim for marginal improvements. Nothing big, but maybe half a second on a sprint, a tenth of a second in a start and so on. Pearson said that's what they did with the City players: continually aim to make them a little bit better in everything they did - running, shooting, heading, reacting. Seems to have worked!

 

I get what you're saying, but isn't that essentially what any professional sportsman should be doing anyway?

[Captain...]

I get what you're saying, but isn't that essentially what any professional sportsman should be doing anyway?

There is no one correct approach, the Brailsford/Woodward philosophy was to invest a lot of time effort and money in small gains in every department.

Other approaches are targeting weaknesses or looking to improve on strengths. There is only a finite amount of time and money you can throw into training.

Take Ulloa for example do you work in his strengths so he is even better in the air, his weaknesses dribbling and speed, or improve a bit in every area.

One of the aspects of sports science is not drilling players on a single skill, this prevents injury and ties into a philosophy of looking to improve all aspects of a players game.

[sphericalfox]

This.

 

I remember reading an interview with Pearson after we won the Championship (in some style) and he was asked how he'd done it. He said that after the Watford defeat the previous season, he and his key staff - Shakespeare, Walsh, the sports-science team etc - went and spent a weekend at his father-in-law's pub in Shropshire to decide what, if anything, they were going to do.

 

He didn't mention who came up with the thought, but someone raised the idea of doing exactly what Dave Brailsford did with the Sky and UK cycling teams, which was to look look continually at every aspect of every team member's performance, and to aim for marginal improvements. Nothing big, but maybe half a second on a sprint, a tenth of a second in a start and so on. Pearson said that's what they did with the City players: continually aim to make them a little bit better in everything they did - running, shooting, heading, reacting. Seems to have worked!

 

I poorly mentioned this in my last bloggins.

 

https://sphericalfox.wordpress.com/2016/02/27/the-fit-factor/

[carled]

Oh it's delicious :-)

 

From the "fightingcock" forum:

 

"It's quite amazing that the best team, as confirmed by most of the teams managers we've faced, isn't top of the table. **** off Leicester. Crystal Palace next for them"

[Vacamion]

Oh it's delicious :-)

From the "fightingcock" forum:

"It's quite amazing that the best team, as confirmed by most of the teams managers we've faced, isn't top of the table. **** off Leicester. Crystal Palace next for them"

To be fair, if the roles were reversed and Spurs had just shitehoused their way to 3 points to extend to lead to 5, I would also be seething.

[foxes_rule1978]

Oh it's delicious :-)

From the "fightingcock" forum:

"It's quite amazing that the best team, as confirmed by most of the teams managers we've faced, isn't top of the table. **** off Leicester. Crystal Palace next for them"

I love it actually love these 1 nil wins even more because of how the spuds react... we won that is all that matters especially at this stage of the season ...

[Corky]

I wouldn't expect praise, we aren't exactly giving it out ourselves to the teams around us. It's natural.

 

I'd rather they were criticising our play than making crap up about us being underhand with no evidence and just complete bitterness.

[foxes21]

http://www.thefightingcock.co.uk/forum/threads/other-matches-fred-2015-16.15164/page-355

These Spurs fans are so salty