Corner back is a perfect spot. You get an odd belt but nothing too nasty as long as you stick tight. Aim to play in the right corner as there are very few left footed lads about and you can push your man out onto his weak foot. You get a good bit of recovery time too. Over here, small pond that it is. If you are an elderly gent, you can simply go down on one knee at a break in play and the ref will usually politely take account of your age and hold up.play for a nonspecific reason til you get your breath back. Marking u21’s is just a penance to be avoided. There is no upside.
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Facts Shmacts, of course it is
FFS, any corner back worth his salt should be the one dishing out the belts.
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Well if you’re marking a lad the same age you might. If its some young fella I wouldn’t have it in me unless he starts. I play for the ball as much as possible. I sometimes miss, but I show equanimity when I get rattled so I expect them to do the same. The main thing is you don’t have to run about as much.
Bar Saturday where the young lad I was marking in the first half decided to try and run the legs off me for twenty minutes. I loped around after him up and down and side to side. He got bored or tired just after half time and I was marking two different lads in the second half who had been slowed a bit by the heat.
Yes the worst in either sport. If you’re marking a shit lad you’ll get fuck all ball, and if you’re marking a good lad you’ll probably get roasted
Mickee, refer to my post here about the one and only time I played the half back position which signalled the end of my club career. A cunt of a position indeed if you’re just thrust into it.
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Corner back is a horrible position if you are getting slow. @mickee321 sounds like a relatively fit lad for that level and has a bit of an edge to him so it could be his perfect position.
At junior b, distribution of the ball from midfield is a random affair.
brilliant training tonight
was very wet and got dark early
- random kick around till 8 20 as lads moseyed on up
- 3 laps
- some form of hand passing and footpass drills
- a bit of shooting
- game of backs and forwards, then we switched and the forwards went as backs
(no one was talking it seriously by this stage, lads more interested in the score from the west ham game - 50 pressups and situps- no one completed more than 5 of each, random banter about wanting a woman underneath ya, etc…
- some sprints
- a penalty competition
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Enjoyed it myself.
Even attempting press ups and sit ups and sprints seems a bit intensive for junior B training
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Don’t race
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it was a punishment for messing during the backs and forwards game
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3 laps is the junior b staple.
25:07 for the 5k tonight after drinking whiskey, Guinness, and vodka all weekend and taking yolks and cocaine and clubbing till 2pm on Sunday, shove your diet and nutrition up your hole
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That’s sensational. I had six pints last night, a chicken curry and then I polished off a basket of chips and cocktail sausages and all this in about a 2hr period. I was disgusted with myself today so went for a 5km run myself but I was only tipping along. It was pissing rain as well. I did a poor 26.40 but just glad I did it.
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Great running, fellas.
yeah, I have slipped back into my old dietary ways, plenty of takeaways again, sure you can ate as much as you want as long as you are burning it off, fucking ejjits there not ateing bread and shit like that, thats not living, thats not even africa. I’ve had enough of that nonsense, I have half an 18 inch pizza left over now and a few cornettos in the fridge, thats proper grub
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What are you at with your yokes. A man of your standing should be dabbing a nice bit of MD.
Dead right @Tassotti. Here is a copy and paste of Michael Phelps diet when he was training:
Breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Two cups of coffee. One five-egg omelet. One bowl of grits. Three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar. Three chocolate-chip pancakes.
Lunch: One pound of enriched pasta. Two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayo on white bread. Energy drinks packing 1,000 calories.
Dinner: One pound of pasta. An entire pizza. More energy drinks.