International break holiday ? (3 Viewers)

SBT said:

Never understood this mentality - it’s training, not detention. The problems in the team are not decided by adding or skipping a handful of training sessions (whereas not taking the opportunity to rest players at the same time as our opponents will almost certainly pose problems).

The idea that we’re no good at corners or scoring goals because we neglected to practice them at Ryton is a ridiculously simplistic way of looking at the game.

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Terry Gibson's perm said:

If they are practicing them why are they continually bad when you practice something you are supposed to improve, they had time off during the last breaks and came back poorly maybe try something new.

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SBT said:

The problems with the team are systemic and tactical. They could haul them in from holiday and practice corners and finishing from dusk til dawn, but it doesn’t mean you can replicate it during a game, and it’s not going to turn Eccles into Beckham in the space of a week either.

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shmmeee said:

Yeah there’s a line here. More time together should help bonding and cohesion. More practice obviously helps set pieces. Every set piece taker in history has a story of them staying back practicing.

But equally, I’d expect Robins to be planning a training routine that is finely honed to players mental and physical needs to get the maximum out of them over a season already. So not sure changing things as a punishment for being poor makes sense. Equally should we train less if we’re winning? There’s an optimal training amount and I’d expect a professional football club to work to it.

Also I’m sure someone said Eccles has in fact been staying back practicing set pieces.

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Terry Gibson's perm said:

If he is crossing it and Ben Wilson is in goal he will look like a world beater.

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