Sky said our lads had been in since 9 A.M.

We’ve narrowly - in my opinion - lost to the sides first and second in the league, back to back. I don’t think we were anything special on both occasions and I’d be hard pressed to suggest we deserved more.

I don’t think our training schedule affected the result last night.

 

Whilst I don't agree with the op, nothing about your reply disputed the op's point and made it 'more nonsense'. For the record, I agree that it is nonsense but your reply didn't address that. They said that they thought it was too early in a morning for them to be woken up and that it meant they had been woken up 12 hours before the match kicked off. I don't think either of those things are a problem but the fact the session was 90mins long and that they went home and returned for the match has nothing to do with what time they were woken up on a morning which was the op's point, not that the session itself was particulary long or challenging.

 

What about the pie, chips and mushy peas that Dave said they had 15 minutes before KO? , Bloody Ridiculous Barnsley, they don’t want to go up

 

There’s been some absolute ***** posted on here since kick off last night and he’s probably as sick of reading it as I am.

I genuinely cannot believe how fickle and entitled our fans have become after a few weeks in the top half of the division.

 

I suppose they had plenty of time for a siesta though.

 

absolute drivel. what you on about, who in their right minds gets up at 8 am when they on nights ?

 

I'd agree with that. I was only thinking last night about how our fans cheered us on every game in the Premier season no matter what the results. I think we'd get slated this time if we went up and lost a few in a row.

 

I don't get the overreaction to a defeat against 2nd in the table. For the greatest part of the game we were on top but the Swansea defence are really good and kept us at bay. Apart from that long throw, Swansea never really posed a threat. Lowe was clearly offside for the second and Walton didn't really have a save to make unless you count that free kick that floated towards the back post. Sometimes you just get the rub of the green. Swansea got it last night. The throw in was their only attempt on goal in that first half and an offside 2nd. On another day, the linesman flags offside and we get the penalty for hand ball. Small margins but no need for the hysteria.

 

what hysteria, just think young lads should not be getting up ay 8 am on a freezing cold icy morning to come in for a session that did no use at all

 

I'm obviously feeling pedantic today. MPM was talking about other posts, not just yours so it's not 'absolute drivel'. You seem to be basing your reply only on your point of how early they got up and not the numerous other posts they were also referring to. In defence of your point, even though I don't agree with it, they probably all got up quite a bit before 8am to get ready and arrive for 9am, especially the ones who live in Leeds and Sheffied. A 7:45pm kick off is hardly 'nights' though is it? At my dad's work nights start at 10pm and last until 6am; the match would have been at the back end of 'afters'.

 

”Sky said our lads had been in since 9am” was the claim (the thread title) I was responding to. That insinuates the players were at the club from 9am until the end of the match. I didn’t address anything but that.

 

ok then if you get up at 8 am on afters ask your dad, you are out on your feet by 9 pm,do not care if people say its drivel. from an health and safety aspect its ludicrous, also if you want to go down the lockdown route, was it needed journeys, that last bit proper sad thing to say, but might aswell get some more drivel out there

 

We lost through two goals caused by :
trying to wrestle instead of keeping an eye on the first man at a set piece, and individual non communication coupled with an offside. Oh, and not scoring past a very good defence and keeper. First half we tried playing their way, in the air all the time. We can’t play that way, we haven’t the height. Second half we played more through midfield and caused problems but couldn’t score. Chalk it off, we move on.

 

They should work from home. Some might argue some of the players did, not me though I hasten to add

 

yes totally agree, its just a talking point I raised, the younger a person is the more their body clock is needing longer in bed, all these sports scientists we got must think getting up on an icy Saturday morning at silly o clock for a 7.45 kick off can not help

 

If the players do not mind, who am I to say, was just a talking point

 

They could have been in bed by 10am the night before and got 10 hours sleep. What time were you wanting them to wake up and what time do you think they should have gone to bed the night before? Anything over 10 hours is far too much and staying up past midnight just to get up later is daft. 8am is a lie in to me.

 

In fairness, the majority of stuff I’ve read has been on the money. It’s only a very small minority who go OTT. And I don’t think the OP was being like that. But it is indeed nonsense to suggest the training schedule played a negative part in the defeat. Because they trained at 9 when beating Rotherham, Birmingham etc.

 

your not a professional footballer though