Three games a week

[Stud mark of doom]

This “three games a week” phrase is getting ubiquitous. I think I even heard one of the players suggesting we have been playing three games every week. No wonder we are struggling in the second half. 

I think the club would be well advised to employ a maths/days of the week expert to come in and explain that playing on Saturday, Tuesday and then Saturday is not three games a week - as you don’t have two of the same days in a week. 

As Sir Clive Woodward would tell us, these marginal mental gains could be the difference between success and failure.

(Although, iirc, when we finished second in 83/84 didn’t we finish the season playing on Saturday Tuesday and Thursday, winning all three - and with only one sub.)

Please highlight all false claims of playing theee games in a week here.  

[AlexLaw76]

Ummmm

ok

[Holmes_and_Watson]

I blame the Beatles

 

[sadoldgit]

13 hours ago, Stud mark of doom said:

This “three games a week” phrase is getting ubiquitous. I think I even heard one of the players suggesting we have been playing three games every week. No wonder we are struggling in the second half. 

I think the club would be well advised to employ a maths/days of the week expert to come in and explain that playing on Saturday, Tuesday and then Saturday is not three games a week - as you don’t have two of the same days in a week. 

As Sir Clive Woodward would tell us, these marginal mental gains could be the difference between success and failure.

(Although, iirc, when we finished second in 83/84 didn’t we finish the season playing on Saturday Tuesday and Thursday, winning all three - and with only one sub.)

Please highlight all false claims of playing theee games in a week here.  

Good point. There are only 7 days in a week still and we play 2 games in 7 days. Imagine the extra mental fatigue you must face if someone is telling you that you have played 3 games in 7 days. Poor lambs.

[bugenhagen]

21 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

Good point. There are only 7 days in a week still and we play 2 games in 7 days. Imagine the extra mental fatigue you must face if someone is telling you that you have played 3 games in 7 days. Poor lambs.

It made me think of the interview with Strachan the other week, about the point that he got us in such good shape, where his respons was something like: "The players weren't that fit, but we made them believe they were".

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