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Hart sucks

Hot fuck

For once this does look like vintage Torres; the pace is back.

Holy fuck

Torres looks like one of the best players on the pitch right now

Yeahhhhhh

Taylor is far too jacked. He's been too jacked for a few years now but it's probably part of why he's so slow to turn.

I mean, Cabaye gets pushed off the ball everytime he's challenged so what's the point of jacking up his upper body. Better to focus on him being lean and quicker so he's able to escape instead of having to compete physically. Same with Tiote, who's too slow to get close to other midfielders. Better him being leaner and quicker so he can cover more space and escape from pressure when he has the ball. Being slow today is a death sentence and yet we have players today who are slower than when they first joined us, just incomprehensible.

On the contrary, these days there is a clear reluctance to push players towards building upper body muscles because it results in more weight and less pace. There is more emphasis placed on abdominal, back and leg muscles because these are bigger factors in succeeding. So it's baffling when I see players like Williamson having big biceps, which results in him being slower than before. Our conditioning team don't seem to know what they're doing. Same with Ben arfa whose biceps are bigger, Obertan likewise, Cabaye too and Tiote as well. It's old fashioned and out of date.

Core strength is completely different than packing on the muscles. Some of our players are muscular but lack the attributes associated with high core strength.

Still top Thought I completely fucked up with the Oscar pick but still was too clever, should have gone with my first instinct which was Ozil.

Oscar is my capitan

Well this is just pure assumption though. Common sense seems to suggest that flying round the world, having less time to prepare, and playing extra games would make for a tougher season. It's not an excuse for how badly we did, but I don't understand why people spend so long denying that the effect exists. Our best players didn't play, though. Flying all around the world? You mean a three hour flight instead of a three hour bus ride? Having less time to prepare? Same applies to teams that have domestic cup runs.

There are also other factors such as successful cup runs negating the importance of league positions, like Fulham resting players for their league matches during their run. We on the other hand rested loads of players in Europe but still suffered in the league. Look at the amount of time our best players actually played in Europe and compare it to a team that has a normal domestic cup run and you won't find much difference.

A better analysis would be if you actually looked at total matches played in a season. I'm sure a match in Europe isn't significantly more tiring than a league cup match, so teams which have extended cup runs domestically should also suffer from this, assuming your theory is correct.

You're assuming these points dropped have occurred because of the European campaign. More likely these teams dropped back to their normal levels after having a good campaign the year before, or they had changes in managers and players. I would argue that those other factors far outweigh any potential negative effect of a European campaign. If you had a big enough sample size and did a regression, you wouldn't find anything that is statistically significant, I'm certain.

Top again.

For the first time this year, I feel my team is in danger of bombing the week. If sturridge does fuck all then it's going to be a rough week.

Ben arfa news has fucked my plans this week. Had to take out lescott early and bring in nastasic so I had enough players to start. Would have wanted to wait a week so I could do two transfers and bring in Ramsey but this has ruined it and I don't want to take a points hit at this time. Let's see how things shape up after this week first but for the first time, I'll be playing four defenders which is so stupid.

Not half the player Nerique is.

Fucking card that

WTF was that defending

When Cabaye is playing like this, we're pretty good