Matthew Le God

Why would the club do that? Eckert if fined should pay for it himself!

There is no maybe about it. If you make changes, the game will play out differently.

What don't you believe?

No. I didn't watch any training. It was also in pre season and not near any league game. No contradiction. I saw the plans of a training week, not the training itself.

Not when they are an arranged meeting with the director of football on club grounds.

Sports Interactive talks to a huge number of professionals in the industry to reflect real life, I've worked for them for 19 years. I have also been to Staplewood and seen what Saints do and talked to Saints staff.

In the three games they admitted to, Saints weren't great. Perhaps we'd have been even worse without doing it.

All the tactical work is done in those final 3 days before a game. That is standard practice in the sport and why those 72 hours of training are viewed as more important. In the time before those 72 hours it is recovery sessions for the previous games and general training drills.

Knowing how your opponent intends to play in different match situations like set pieces and the personnel they have availsble and altering your tactical and team selection to counter it affects games.

Did you read the final sentence?

If I look at your cards in a game of poker, is that cheating or scouting?

To have a job in the industry he is qualified for, very close to an area he has lived in for a significant part of his life. Plus for a team that still has a decent income, wage budget, transfer budget, squad, facilities and with parachute payments. I doubt he'd do it as a stop gap for Eckert if he got a long term ban. It would need to be if Eckert was sacked. I'd still be surprised if it happened in either of those situations.

They aren't likely to show him looking shit in training in a video on Youtube. He may have had 100 shots on the Germany trip training sessions and they just put the 2 he scored in the video! 😉