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Same here. Maybe he starts scoring a lot of goals so they over rely on that and keep trying to feed him the ball even in bad positions leading to turn overs?

 

A personality conflict with othe key players perhaps.

 

One can only hope but i doubt it. Guardiola seems to be able to keep all those multimillionaires and their egos mostly in check.

I'm wishing he dearly misses some bratwurst stand near the Westfalenstadion and asks to return to Dortmund.

 

Pep really loves sausage

 

In 1957, Jackie Milburn left NUFC to player/manage Linfield FC. No chance on earth that anything like that happens today.

MTF

 

Well done.

Try to focus on incremental improvements. Few seconds a week will do. Think about where it can come off: a slightly quicker start, quicker transition through the middle or a slightly faster sprint finish are usual areas for small gains. Build speed-stamina, too. Look to run 2-3 miles at a light jogging pace. If you are at 9.30 for a mile, try to extend your distance at around 11min pace. Again, increments help. It will build core strength which gives you the tools to improve speed.

Distance increase is a real help in speed building. So is better diet (good food is running fuel) and strength exercises (to a point - too much weight will show you down). Lots of places to make marginal gains.

I'm a trained running coach and I love running, even though I'm too old now to do what I used to be able to do easily. Let me know if you need any help.

MTF

 

To be fair to Carroll, Fat Mike sold him and shipped him onto a helicopter before Andy knew much about what was happening. The point is a fair one, though.

MTF

 

Cheers bud. I'm weighing in tomorrow after a pee pee and I'm really hoping I'm under the 250lb mark.

I reckon I'll need help once the times plateau and the injuries add up and Winter sets in.... That's the real test, once thise "easy pounds" come off and the fish in the barrel start to thin out and Summer is over and I'm sweating like a deviant every weekend

Stress. The silent killer!

 

Aye. There's a lot of hindsight shite written about Shearer and about how he 'turned down the chance to win stuff' when he joined NUFC. He joined after we'd just blown the title in 1995-6. He was considered the last piece of Keegan's title challenging jigsaw. He joined NUFC because we were in a great position at that time to win stuff. Even in the years of decline that followed, he played in two FA Cup finals, two FA and one UEFA Cup semi-final, two CL campaigns and had 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th placed PL finishes.

Until Fat Mike came along, NUFC regularly challenged for PL titles and cups. Very regularly.

MTF

 

Back when £35m was CRAZY MONEY!

 

Well legendary manager SAM ALLARDYCE used to manage Limerick City FC before he went on to admittedly much much bigger things.

 

That's how I see it, too.

MTF

 

I wonder how he keeps the ego of multimillionaires in check.

Probably by making them multimillionaires.

 

That's very good for a bloke your size Well done. You'll be under 30mins in no time.

MTF

 

The winter is much better for running. Days like today are much, much worse. I'm training the missus for the GNR this year and she really struggled over a simple 11k this afternoon. It's really fucking hard to run distance in this heat.

Absolutely focus on getting the weight down. It is a virtuous circle - running really helps get the weight off and getting the weight off really helps with the running.

MTF

 

Cheers. Fitness was never really an issue. Ive never smoked in any proper sense (4 per day for 2 years) and i dont drink.
Its always been weight that caused the problems.

 

Hence Fat Mike practically forcing Andy onto a helo under armed escort.

MTF

 

Fat Sham. It's been a while

The difference of course is that Millburn went to Linfield only two years after he scored in an FA Cup final. He wasn't prime, but he wasn't miles away, either.

MTF

 

He didn't make any of those players rich. They might make less playing for a "smaller" club but the same could be said of many sides.

 

Linfirld iscas bigbas it gets in Ireland, North or South. Its like a malignancy broke off of Ibrox and took root in Northern Ireland.

 

As you may recall, I was once inflicted by all three. Smoked like a chimney, drank like a fish and was about five stone overweight. I had to give up the smokes first, then slowly but surely get the weight down by running. I was a county distance runner at school, but by the time I was 30, I literally couldn't run a mile without having a panic attack. I had to start all over again, just like you are. Short 1k jog, then 1.5k, then a mile, then 2k, then a bit faster...etc. Within eighteen months, I'd lost all five stone and was running 46min 10ks. It wasn't easy. I was running five days a week and still drinking like a fish...

MTF

 

Carroll was taken by Dalglish to a Westlife gig.

Edit: Boyzone.

 

What killed me was i got down to 144 when i was boxing.... And then once i lut a little bit of it on, i got into this rut andthen, suddenly, i was heavier than i was before I'd started.

Everytime since then, and that was 2004, I've laboured under the mindset of "you've already done this, why are you doing it again, you're a joke" and then you collapse.

Its the negativity of doing the same job twice.

I've no idea how you came back from the brink with smokes and booze. I find it helps if you just literally take it ONE day at a time.

But there's always always distractions....

 

Aye, the mental battle is important. It's a difficult one. Going to the gym/running/training etc gets the endorphins going. Watching the numbers come down on the scales is a great mood enhancer. Both can become addictive. Once you are in, it's a hard habit to break. I know people who literally got so addicted to running that they ran their knees away.

Conversely, is a bloody hard habit to get into. It's warm, life is busy, shit food is easier to buy and eat than good food, we're 'getting old' so it's okay, loads of other people look like we do... It's just as easy to sit on your arse and 'fix it tomorrow'.

Getting over that first hurdle is the key. One you're in, you're in.

MTF

 

Alright, random historical player question, who would you say was better: Platini or Baggio?

 

That's it. Nobody in my family knew a haooy medium if it kicked them in their face. Same with my studies. Intense periods of linear straight upward progression.... Then flatlining..... Its a personality disorder and its one thing i regretted never getting addressed..

A salesman years ago told me all about this rejection threshold thing.. basically it was all about heigtening the rejection threshold, the refusal to take no for an answer, and how to develop it.

Literally like calcified fists. Attrition by repetition.

 

Platini. Period.

 

Don't think of it as doing the same job twice. Last time you were training to box. This time you are training to run. You've already started on the differences. You've a daft smart watch and you're checking data and setting targets. Focus on the targets. Keep them manageable and think of short, medium and long term aims. Maybe a park run by the end of the year? Sub 30 for 5k? 8 minute mile? Hitting the targets keeps you motivated to set new ones. It's important, because (and I can't stress this enough) running about on roads, alone, is fucking hard work

The key is to think of it as training to run well, rather than running to just lose weight (again).

I had no choice. If I'd continued as I was, I was dead by 50, at best. My mortality kicked in sharply once my 20s ended.

MTF

 

Yeah, Platini, and by a fair bit (big fan of Baggio, btw).

MTF

 

I know. Its all about goals. Ive never been goal oriented. Its a serious flaw. Survive. Thats my goal. Gotta address it.