BlueStar Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3497826/Rafa-Benitez-tells-underperforming-Newcastle-United-players-no-days-new-manager-bids-up.html Rafa Benitez has got tough with Newcastle's underperforming squad, scrapping days off and introducing double training sessions in a bid to save the club from relegation. Newcastle are second from bottom in the Premier League table and have suffered eight straight away defeats ahead of Sunday's Tyne-Wear derby against Sunderland. Now Sportsmail can reveal that the Spaniard has axed days off in the build-up to matches, a tradition under sacked head coach Steve McClaren which saw the players enjoy time off 72 hours before a game. Think I'd heard of this 'tradition' before but for fuck's sake No wonder they took to the pitch like a bunch of strangers again every week and looking half asleep. You'd think when you're running out of ideas for what's going wrong to the point you take a punt on starting Riviere up front in the game widely tipped as your last chance to avoid the sack, you might have experimented with actually meeting your players for a quick training session before a match just to see if that had anything to do with it. "Hi lads, long time no see. Nice few days off? Anyway, just before we go out on the pitch, everyone remember what we went over in training on Wednesday? Was it Wednesday?" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Surely they don't mean, they get 3 days off in a row? Just 3 days before a game, they get the day off? If I remember correctly. The week when McClaren finally got sacked. They had the Monday off and then the Friday, as well. As it was the game was on the following Monday. It's still ridiculous, like. I know a lot of clubs are going to give players days off during the week. But in our position. We should have had everyone in the building, working around the clock, trying to find a way out of this mess. Instead, we were just doing morning sessions and missing 1-2 days training a week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Rafa is big on fitness, Liverpool were a very fit side that could go the distance in any match against anyone. Players should get 1 day off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Five o Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Earning 70k a week, 3 days off during the week, and playing football for money. Hard fucking life Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Even on the days they train it's not like they are there the full 9 to 5 day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Wouldn't catch soldiers being given days off. It's a disgrace. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughesy Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 I assume the regularity and quantity of training is based mainly keeping the players in the best condition possible for the games, but you'd think you could do a hell of a lot of tactical work/walk throughs of tactical moves and/or set pieces on days where they should be "resting". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBG Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 I assume the regularity and quantity of training is based mainly keeping the players in the best condition possible for the games, but you'd think you could do a hell of a lot of tactical work/walk throughs of tactical moves and/or set pieces on days where they should be "resting". Or you could go buy a Ferrari. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Aye. A lot of Dalglish's dealings were rebuilding a reserve team (Brady, Serrant, Pinas, Gudjonnson (sp?), Coppinger, Robinson, etc). Obviously there were a few poor signings, but as well as the 4 who went on to be important in the Sir Bobby team, there was also Hamann who second half of the 98/99 season was probably the best midfielder I've seen here. Think he gets a raw deal personally. He doesn't get the shit he deserves, he set us back massively by trying to build his own team because he didn't want Keegan to get any credit if we'd won something. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Wouldn't catch soldiers being given days off. It's a disgrace. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odear Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Aye. A lot of Dalglish's dealings were rebuilding a reserve team (Brady, Serrant, Pinas, Gudjonnson (sp?), Coppinger, Robinson, etc). Obviously there were a few poor signings, but as well as the 4 who went on to be important in the Sir Bobby team, there was also Hamann who second half of the 98/99 season was probably the best midfielder I've seen here. Think he gets a raw deal personally. He doesn't get the s*** he deserves, he set us back massively by trying to build his own team because he didn't want Keegan to get any credit if we'd won something. Totally agree, he dismantled a great fucking side so he could give his bindipper buddies one last payday. His only redeeming thing was the 35m he spent on Carroll. We went from being the entertainers to dads fucking army in a matter of months because of this guy. Never forgive, never forget. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Aye. A lot of Dalglish's dealings were rebuilding a reserve team (Brady, Serrant, Pinas, Gudjonnson (sp?), Coppinger, Robinson, etc). Obviously there were a few poor signings, but as well as the 4 who went on to be important in the Sir Bobby team, there was also Hamann who second half of the 98/99 season was probably the best midfielder I've seen here. Think he gets a raw deal personally. He doesn't get the s*** he deserves, he set us back massively by trying to build his own team because he didn't want Keegan to get any credit if we'd won something. Totally agree, he dismantled a great f***ing side so he could give his bindipper buddies one last payday. His only redeeming thing was the 35m he spent on Carroll. We went from being the entertainers to dads f***ing army in a matter of months because of this guy. Never forgive, never forget. I'll never forget the SJP Barcelona game (...though to be fair, it was even sweeter given how low expectations were, based on how we'd been playing) and Nobby Solano (possibly my favourite ever player). I'll never forgive the dad's army jobs for the "boys" plus Des Hamilton, or Guivarc'h. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMTW Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 That Dalglish list of signings reads like a list of "oh, I forgot about him." With one or two notable exceptions (Solano namely). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 If this cowardly, inept, clueless shit stain gets another management job for a professional football team... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Watch him end up at someone like Blackburn to replace Lambert, and we get them first game on Sky on the Friday night. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomson Mouse Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Aye. A lot of Dalglish's dealings were rebuilding a reserve team (Brady, Serrant, Pinas, Gudjonnson (sp?), Coppinger, Robinson, etc). Obviously there were a few poor signings, but as well as the 4 who went on to be important in the Sir Bobby team, there was also Hamann who second half of the 98/99 season was probably the best midfielder I've seen here. Think he gets a raw deal personally. He doesn't get the s*** he deserves, he set us back massively by trying to build his own team because he didn't want Keegan to get any credit if we'd won something. Totally agree, he dismantled a great f***ing side so he could give his bindipper buddies one last payday. His only redeeming thing was the 35m he spent on Carroll. We went from being the entertainers to dads f***ing army in a matter of months because of this guy. Never forgive, never forget. There is the argument that we needed to rein in spending due to moving to a Plc at the time, which tbf I think was partly accurate and something SJH made a lot of money from and escaped with not much criticism. Having said that, bringing in dads army and some shocking lower league players exposed Dalglish's bad judgement which was pretty much compounded by the mess he made at Celtic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 You set us on this path, Steve. Thanks very much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 You set us on this path, Steve. Thanks very much. Well, in fairness. The rot started with Pardew. Carver then managed to somehow make it worse McClaren just continued the shit work of his predecessors. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 You set us on this path, Steve. Thanks very much. Well, in fairness. The rot started with Pardew. Carver then managed to somehow make it worse McClaren just continued the s*** work of his predecessors. Aye, he just wasn't good enough to stop it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Late December, we'd just lost 1-0 to WBA. Mick Lowes: "The need for a striker is obvious, though, isn't it, Steve?" McClueless: "Well, the attitude of the players was first class today......" Hope he rots in hell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmoset Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 He wasn't good enough by a long stretch, but I don't actually feel any hatred towards him. Maybe just a symptom of the overall apathy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Five o Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 SMC is a decent bloke, I do not hate him. But he was by all accounts not fit for the job, and that issue that bald fuck need to take responsibility for. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
magpie1892 Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 SMC is a decent bloke Beg to differ. I met him professionally more than once and found him to be hugely conceited, boorish, and an arrogant, self-satisfied twat. In my book, a small amount of arrogance (say, Roger Federer) is easily tolerable if, and only if, you can produce the goods... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 His time here, for me, will be remembered as one of cognitive dissonance. Game after game we would get battered or lose, and he would come out smiling from ear to ear, telling everyone what a wonderful performance it was, and if only we'd play like this all season, we'd be fine. Well we did fucking play the same way all season, you cunt, and we're going down. Fucking wanker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 He's finished at the top level. He was given an amazing opportunity and couldn't have made a bigger mess of it. We'll come back up one day. He won't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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