I think the fitness thing is a complete red herring. It isn't a lack of fitness hampering certain players, it's a lack of ability and/or confidence, combined with a lack of proper organisation from the manager. Alan Hutton, even at 30+ is up and down the right hand side of the pitch all game. It's not lack of fitness that makes him a liability, it's the inability to do his job as a defender properly. With Hourihane, he just doesn't have the natural aggressive game to be a sitting midfielder.I can't think of any player where you could honestly say that Bruce's pre-season regime is the cause of their inability to do their job properly, it's just that we have two many players who aren't very good. A situation that we really should have done more to rectify in the recent transfer window.
I don't blame the club for not doing more in the January window, it was always going to be difficult.
Not the "pre season" excuse again, please!?We've got top professionals, with many years in the game, training our fit athletes. The overweight Steve Bruce would not have been in charge of their training regime any more than he would have been responsible for their dietary needs - thank god.What I'm seeing on the pitch is not a team playing fantastic, flowing football for 75 minutes before, unfortunately, running out of steam and letting the opposition back into games. In Fact, from the word go in most matches, it looks more like a team that is confused and unsure of exactly what they should be doing with all of their energy.
Quote from: Clampy on February 10, 2019, 07:41:47 PMI don't blame the club for not doing more in the January window, it was always going to be difficult.I think we did OK - Certainly better than most. If Fer had signed, most of us would be pretty satisfied with the window. We addressed the GK & central defence. We have a couple of options to make loans permanent and a new RB for next season.
Quote from: Brassneck on February 10, 2019, 07:45:44 PMQuote from: Clampy on February 10, 2019, 07:41:47 PMI don't blame the club for not doing more in the January window, it was always going to be difficult.I think we did OK - Certainly better than most. If Fer had signed, most of us would be pretty satisfied with the window. We addressed the GK & central defence. We have a couple of options to make loans permanent and a new RB for next season.Utter, utter bollocks. We needed a right back, a left back and decent midfielder immediately. We got none of those.
Quote from: Villa75 on February 10, 2019, 07:55:25 PMNot the "pre season" excuse again, please!?We've got top professionals, with many years in the game, training our fit athletes. The overweight Steve Bruce would not have been in charge of their training regime any more than he would have been responsible for their dietary needs - thank god.What I'm seeing on the pitch is not a team playing fantastic, flowing football for 75 minutes before, unfortunately, running out of steam and letting the opposition back into games. In Fact, from the word go in most matches, it looks more like a team that is confused and unsure of exactly what they should be doing with all of their energy.Of course Bruce would have been in charge of the training regime. Are you seriously suggesting that these fitness coaches make it up as they go along or focus on what they want to without consulting Bruce?You've posted some absolute crap on here over the past few weeks - Presumably to provoke reactions but the above nonsense is your most ridiculous yet.