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Post by johnboy14 on May 5, 2024 11:56:28 GMT
Well done to Kieran McKenna. He's really done a job at Ipswich. Back to back promotions.
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Post by redcase on May 5, 2024 12:40:27 GMT
Well done to Kieran McKenna. He's really done a job at Ipswich. Back to back promotions. Yes. Excellent job. Would it be fair to say he choked the title away though? He took in 2 points from a possible 12 in his run-in. |
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Post by johnboy14 on May 5, 2024 13:04:35 GMT
Well done to Kieran McKenna. He's really done a job at Ipswich. Back to back promotions. Yes. Excellent job. Would it be fair to say he choked the title away though? He took in 2 points from a possible 12 in his run-in. Don't think the fans care. They were in league 1 last year. 22 years since Ipswich have been a PL team. How time flies. |
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Post by ratbag on May 5, 2024 13:05:39 GMT
Well done to Kieran McKenna. He's really done a job at Ipswich. Back to back promotions. Yes. Excellent job. Would it be fair to say he choked the title away though? He took in 2 points from a possible 12 in his run-in. I think all the top teams had a wobble at some point. Leeds for example… |
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Post by johnboy14 on May 5, 2024 13:10:20 GMT
Yes. Excellent job. Would it be fair to say he choked the title away though? He took in 2 points from a possible 12 in his run-in. I think all the top teams had a wobble at some point. Leeds for example… Come on Norwich |
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Post by Rustin Cohle on May 6, 2024 10:22:58 GMT
Well done to Kieran McKenna. He's really done a job at Ipswich. Back to back promotions. If Ten Hag does go, I'd have McKenna in my top five choices. I remember always reading reports of how impressed everyone was by him here, apart from the usual suspect players (which if anything makes him a bigger yes in my book). |
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Post by DedRevil on May 10, 2024 10:40:11 GMT
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Post by caino on May 10, 2024 11:56:11 GMT
Well done to Kieran McKenna. He's really done a job at Ipswich. Back to back promotions. If Ten Hag does go, I'd have McKenna in my top five choices. I remember always reading reports of how impressed everyone was by him here, apart from the usual suspect players (which if anything makes him a bigger yes in my book). ive read brighton are after him to replace de zerbi if he leaves! |
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Post by seanie on May 10, 2024 13:26:08 GMT
Fucking mount. He’s worse than jones for injuries. Signing him alone should get ETH the sack. oh and we have yet another defender injured on top.
Erik ten Hag: “Mason Mount has suffered a new injury and he won’t be available”. ❗️ “Luke Shaw has also suffered a set-back in his recovery”. Yeah, you can forget about any comeback from Shaw too. Honestly if we were not in the FA Cup final, if it were possible, I would just switch off from this car crash now and ignore the transfer soap opera too until the end of August. |
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Post by Stretty on May 10, 2024 14:28:06 GMT
His signings have been a fucking disaster.
Bar razzmatazz They are either
Shit
Always injured
Or both.
No way he can explain this away to SJR and will be rightfully be given his marching orders after city have knocked up a cricket score in the final.
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Post by viking22 on May 10, 2024 14:29:35 GMT
‘No, we don't train too hard. We need to be fit,’ he told Sky recently. The standards in this league, you need to be fit, otherwise you can't match the standards that are required in a game. We don't train too hard.’ He added: ‘You need very robust players - that is the requirement.
Erik basically admitting that the training sessions are probably part of the reason behind our injury issues.
It is a bizarre approach. Rush players back from injury. Put them into intense training sessions. Put them on the pitch in a chaotic team that gets stretched end to end. Wonder why you get so many repeat injuries and so many new injuries. And then blame the players for not being "robust" enough.
Yet more evidence that Erik is completely and utterly clueless.
There is absolutely no point keeping him on another year. Even if we buy him good players he will just end up injuring them.
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Post by johnboy14 on May 10, 2024 17:30:40 GMT
‘No, we don't train too hard. We need to be fit,’ he told Sky recently. The standards in this league, you need to be fit, otherwise you can't match the standards that are required in a game. We don't train too hard.’ He added: ‘You need very robust players - that is the requirement. Erik basically admitting that the training sessions are probably part of the reason behind our injury issues. It is a bizarre approach. Rush players back from injury. Put them into intense training sessions. Put them on the pitch in a chaotic team that gets stretched end to end. Wonder why you get so many repeat injuries and so many new injuries. And then blame the players for not being "robust" enough. Yet more evidence that Erik is completely and utterly clueless. There is absolutely no point keeping him on another year. Even if we buy him good players he will just end up injuring them. He's partly right though. You can't train to avoid injury, you have to be conditioned to play at this level. I'm pretty sure nobody is doodling around Liverpool or cities training sessions trying to avoid injury. I'm convinced his coaching is bollocks or he struggles to communicate his ideas. He strikes me as a guy who would complicate a bowl of crunchy nut. |
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Post by anti_social on May 10, 2024 17:55:00 GMT
I'm pretty sure ETH is barking mad. From what he's said in a few interviews, that massive yawning gap between defence and attack is all part of his crazy masterplan - one that requires superhuman levels of fitness to execute properly (if that's even possible). It's no wonder we routinely get battered, let in late goals and have a shitload of injuries all the time when the masterplan is to have players who can are attempting not only to transition at speed, with little or no press, and then bomb up 50-60 yards by design just to have a sniff of goal.
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Post by Kojak on May 10, 2024 19:05:06 GMT
‘No, we don't train too hard. We need to be fit,’ he told Sky recently. The standards in this league, you need to be fit, otherwise you can't match the standards that are required in a game. We don't train too hard.’ He added: ‘You need very robust players - that is the requirement. Erik basically admitting that the training sessions are probably part of the reason behind our injury issues. It is a bizarre approach. Rush players back from injury. Put them into intense training sessions. Put them on the pitch in a chaotic team that gets stretched end to end. Wonder why you get so many repeat injuries and so many new injuries. And then blame the players for not being "robust" enough. Yet more evidence that Erik is completely and utterly clueless. There is absolutely no point keeping him on another year. Even if we buy him good players he will just end up injuring them. Don’t think he’s admitting that there. He’s saying they don’t train too hard, the players aren’t robust enough. So the sessions aren’t at fault, presumably he’s ran them the same in Holland without injuries, we’ve just got brittle players who can’t cope with them. There’s no way Liverpool run as hard as they do and play as they have for the last few years under Klopp without exerting themselves in training. Maybe we could look at the substandard resources behind the scenes. Our training ground and facilities are out of date. That may well be contributing to the problem. There’s obviously a reason why other clubs, better run clubs than United, opt to upgrade their facilities. If you could be successful using shit that was purchased when Ronaldo was 17 then every club would do it on the cheap. Management and that, yeah fair play he’s shown us nothing this season from that perspective. But I doubt he’s out there in training whipping the players and running them like dogs. Anyway, isn’t it McLaren’s job to put the sessions on? |
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Post by viking22 on May 10, 2024 21:11:33 GMT
Holland is different from the Premier League. There are no easy games in the Premier League. It is one of the most physical leagues in the world. There is way more fixture congestion. And our inability to keep the ball or control games means that we are unable to take our foot off the gas and have to go toe to toe in every game and fight well into injury time to get a result. And it is no surprise our defence gets the most injuries because it gets zero protection as Erik's tactics leave us wide open and vulnerable in transition.
No doubt there are other contributing factors. And players like Shaw, Varane, Martial and Rashford have been injury prone long before Erik showed up.
But I can bet 100% that if we get a new manager in the summer (which seems increasingly unlikely) our injury problems will quickly abate.
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