International 'Tiredness'

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Bored Sunday musings

 

I'm always weary of people going about footballing tiredness, but when there's a journey of thousands of miles involved too I'm inclined to think it's a possibility

 

Minor point, especially with a clean sheet & a good win against a rival

 

With a few people (Youngy & a few in the post-match thread) saying Big Wes was a bit below his normal, phenomenal best yesterday could his return from from International duty have had something to do with it - Not returning until Thursday, presumably given Friday off and not training with the team isn't ideal match preparation 

 

With Morgan (if selected) playing games against the likes of Honduras & US in October (followed by our home tie to Huddersfield).... and Chris Wood jetting over to the other side of the world to play home & away qualifying legs in November (possibly Honduras Panama or Mexico) followed by our away game at Ipswich

 

Is there cause for mild concern?

 

I'll answer... No there is isn't, pointless thread (but I'm bored)

[Trav Le Bleu]

I don't buy the whole tiredness thing where managers bang on about "may lads played mid-week" blah blah, when you get sports like tennis where players play a very physically intense sport, often for longer than a football match, with as many as 7 games in the course of 2 weeks.

 

HOWEVER - they will then give themselves a break before jetting off to their next tournament. I suspect that the affects of long distance travel has more of an effect than the above. You're body needs to adjust to the new hours of daylight, especially after travelling west to east.

 

North-south flights that do not cross time zones do not cause jet lag. Adjustment to the new time zone is easier for east-to-west travel than west-to-east. A westward adjustment takes, in days, approximately half the number of time zones crossed. For eastward travel, adjusting to the new time zone takes, in days, approximately two-thirds the number of time zones crossed.^[3]

 

 

So ideally you'd want your player to be coming back from the east (or better yet, travelling north to south or vice versa). So a trip to the east of America crosses 5 time zones minimum, meaning 2-3 days to readjust on return.

[sylofox]

Tired playing saturday wednesday and saturday.

 

Wonder how they manage the tour de france for 3 weeks with 2 days off.

[lgfualol]

If that is a Morgan bad game then I don't know what to think. He was solid IMO, I'd hate to play against him if I was an attacker. 

[StanSP]

If that is a Morgan bad game then I don't know what to think. He was solid IMO, I'd hate to play against him if I was an attacker. 

 

He wasn't that great yesterday. Lost possession a couple of times and actually got brushed off and grounded against one of their players. Never thought I'd see the day! 

 

I would hate to play against him, too, but on yesterday's showing and this season so far, I'd hate to play against Liam Moore even more!

[svensson]

Tired playing saturday wednesday and saturday.

Wonder how they manage the tour de france for 3 weeks with 2 days off.

A massive amount of drugs.

[_Fatboyslow_]

A massive amount of drugs.

We knew that was coming and re Morgan, when he had issues over his driving didn't it come out that he had been up for 24 hours? Makes the case a little week and what was so poor about his performance ?