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... nice write-up by the way
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. travelling to guiyang/guizhou is a complete pain in the arse. as a tourist it is extremely tiring ... as a young, inexperienced, professional athlete it must have a detrimental effect on your preparation as well as physical and mental well-being. forget all the bullshit rhetoric about being professional althetes ... these kids are finely tuned athletes travelling without their strength and conditioning coach. the long flights, delayed flights, continual and lengthy security checks, airports delays, bus travel, un-customary food, no down-time and quick turn around coupled with poor air quality, temperature changes and all the other shit (sometimes quite literally) ... can throw this fine tuning out of balance
. for these reasons i can forgive the likes of morten and griffiths making the occasional slip-up against some very experienced internationals playing at home ... the self-absorbed, self-righteous 'supporters' rubbishing their performances from the luxury of their lounge rooms back home - well, not so much
. is that the sort of feedback you wanted roy
Apparently China have honoured Julia Gillard today, for convincing the Mariners to allow 2 late goals and gift Guizhou Renhe the points. Expect a major funding announcement from labour to the Mariners CoE next week
writing this with just twenty minutes to go. COYY!.
. travelling to guiyang/guizhou is a complete pain in the arse. as a tourist it is extremely tiring ... as a young, inexperienced, professional athlete it must have a detrimental effect on your preparation as well as physical and mental well-being. forget all the bullshit rhetoric about being professional althetes ... these kids are finely tuned athletes travelling without their strength and conditioning coach. the long flights, delayed flights, continual and lengthy security checks, airports delays, bus travel, un-customary food, no down-time and quick turn around coupled with poor air quality, temperature changes and all the other shit (sometimes quite literally) ... can throw this fine tuning out of balance
Absolutely right - can you imagine if we had sent a full strength side what effect it would have had?
. for these reasons i can forgive the likes of morten and griffiths making the occasional slip-up against some very experienced internationals playing at home ... the self-absorbed, self-righteous 'supporters' rubbishing their performances from the luxury of their lounge rooms back home - well, not so much
Which is precisely why I wanted the view of someone who was there. It is so different to watching on telly or for me on a laptop - I didn't even think Pellegrino was as bad as the others who slated him
. is that the sort of feedback you wanted roy
No worries, the beers are on me
. i don't know what to say ... we arrived back on the coast very late last night. now having read all the comments above i feel really sorry for the kids (and with the exception of hutch & pellers ... maybe olly ... they are ALL kids)
. with regard to the performance i didn't feel as bad most of you lot ... perhaps any of you lot. at the end of the game i felt a bit like in brisbane two years ago ... but nowhere near as bad. reading the posts above i feel a whole different type of disappointment
. admittedly we were badly positioned for actually 'watching' the game. i much prefer watching from the half-way where you can see everything unfold - being positioned at the end, we were miles away from the play and the perspective is so different
. arnie clearly made a decision to focus on the semi (personnel-wise) ... perhaps hoping that a GF win will bring the coast supporters together? he would have been over-joyed with a draw considering the circumstances - a win an unexpected bonus. he almost had either but unfortunately finished with neither
. i agree that his tactics were a little odd particularly towards the end ... but we had seen this in the previous game when he dropped back to defend a lead - i believe this is a little reminiscent of his socceroos days. WE DO NOT DO THIS WELL - we should continue to play our natural game and maintain our rhythm ... perhaps curbing absolute attack is OK ... but a 4-5-1 defensive structure where the 4 and 5 sit a couple of metres apart is just f**ked up and has us using a lot more energy than it should in the dying moments of a game when everyone was already spent
. travelling to guiyang/guizhou is a complete pain in the arse. as a tourist it is extremely tiring ... as a young, inexperienced, professional athlete it must have a detrimental effect on your preparation as well as physical and mental well-being. forget all the bullshit rhetoric about being professional althetes ... these kids are finely tuned athletes travelling without their strength and conditioning coach. the long flights, delayed flights, continual and lengthy security checks, airports delays, bus travel, un-customary food, no down-time and quick turn around coupled with poor air quality, temperature changes and all the other shit (sometimes quite literally) ... can throw this fine tuning out of balance
. for these reasons i can forgive the likes of morten and griffiths making the occasional slip-up against some very experienced internationals playing at home ... the self-absorbed, self-righteous 'supporters' rubbishing their performances from the luxury of their lounge rooms back home - well, not so much
. is that the sort of feedback you wanted roy
