Thought we looked loads fitter yesterday

Even in the last minutes of the game they were running the channels and looked like they could keep going……


I hope yesterday was a sign of things to come

 

Difficult to tell , thought Earl looked to have put some timber on , didn’t see much signs of high press particularly

 

Said straight after the game yesterday last season we would have lost that conceding and then the man down. Think both mentally and fitness last season meant we conceded so many goals in the 2nd half or from winning positions.

 

Much fitter than the opposition for sure

 

You can just see the whole set up is more professional. The warm up is a proper routine. The conditioning guy has no messing about, everyone wired in. Under Clarke it was a **** show, subs wandering around playing head tennis and pissing about with the sprinklers.

 

Hard to tell we are fitter imo. Because surely you are at your fittest for first match after a pre-season, I think we won’t know whether we are until later in season, hopefully we are though

 

"surely you are at your fittest for first match"

Not really....match fitness comes after a few games.

 

I agree with what you say mate, so why would someone say we are fitter after first match?

 

Because we looked fitter than the peak of last season. And even if that's not yet evident, what is, is that we played with much more energy.

 

So did I.

David Mcgoldrick is far better looking than Sam Cosgrove.