Half A World Away

[El Jefecito]

Maybe i'm alone in this i don't know, and apologies in advance if something similar has been posted before.

Does anyone think its maybe not such a good idea for us to be travelling half way arounf the world just to play a in a friendly tournament or a few warm up games. Its obviously makes sense financially but thats not really what im getting at. I mean maybe some of you who have been on long haul flights can tell me, but id imagine flying that distance takes it out of you. can't be good for the players to have to fly to the far east... play a few matches and fly back again before the season starts. would you think this is tiring them out for minimal benefit?
an alternative could be to do what the arse have done. Set up a mini tournament nearer home and get some teams to come here. doesn't really have to be at anfield either. we could play it at tranmere or a lower league teams stadium ( like goodison ). Could even link it in with the hjc and make it an annual thing to help bring it a bit of cash for the campaign and maybe raise awareness a bit further.

any opinions?

or am i just pissing in the wind?

TBH mate, I've done countless long haul flights and the secret is to manage your sleeping patterns. If you do that properly then the impact is minimal.

BTW I often used Abro's approach

[Marky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsIzfGZRzUA

[thesilverfoxlfc]

Money talks

[Nicey]

I am in New York right now... did 35 hours coming over here initally getting to North Carolina and got into my sleep cycle straight away .. but going back to Hong Kong I will be ****ed for two weeks ...

Hong Kong is a very big party city .. I imagine the lads will be getting lashed ... Also its nice for the Asian reds to get to see there beloved Liverpool in action live ... we need to promote club abroad and the off season is the only time we can do it live .. but to answer your question . they will me more wreched in Hong Kong but when they fly back to the uk they'll be fine

[puredale]

It's generally worst travelling west for people suffering jetlag on long haul flights.

We have a couple of games in Holland when we get back so there will be time to assess the efffects of the travelling.

We have to go to Asia if we want to compete with Scum financially.

[Mattshark]

It's generally worst travelling west for people suffering jetlag on long haul flights.

We have a couple of games in Holland when we get back so there will be time to assess the efffects of the travelling.

We have to go to Asia if we want to compete with Scum financially.

No it is much worse traveling east, that is been shown scientifically.