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But he wasn't though was he. Wenger was.Originally posted by Daniel 7 View Post
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...are you suggesting Wenger exposed his testicles to a young man to lure him into his gang...where have I heard those lyrics...now then..Originally posted by Tee View PostBut he wasn't though was he. Wenger was.
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Originally posted by MrNice View Post And the morale/mentality of the team seems to be great at the moment too
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Rafa was after Chamakh for Liverpool in his last season.Comment
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I imagine similar techniques are used for our younger players which should somewhat ease the concerns of those who are expecting Sterling to be crippled before his 20th birthday.Originally posted by Yozza View PostInteresting read... tops up the glass a bit!
WHY LIVERPOOL ARE NOW IN GOOD SHAPE
Tuesday December 11,2012
By Paul Joyce
ONE OF the first points made to Brendan Rodgers when he took charge at Liverpool was that victories such as Sunday’s notable triumph against West Ham would not be possible.
Not because Sam Allardyce’s side was expected to tear it up in the Premier League. Rather that one of the main performers, Glen Johnson, who opened the scoring with a blistering drive in the 3-2 win, would not be available for selection.
Rodgers was told it was highly unlikely Johnson could play three matches in a week, as he has just done.
Steven Gerrard and Daniel Agger would also struggle to make repeat appearances.
Game by game the myth is being dismantled.
The art of management is governed by player availability and as Liverpool display the green shoots of recovery following a difficult start to the campaign, another piece in the jigsaw is being put in place.
Agger is enjoying his best run of Premier League appearances. The only match he has not started this season was due to suspension.
Gerrard is the only player to feature for every minute of every league game and Johnson, in the form of his life, is now playing midweek matches, as was the case against Udinese in the Europa League last Thursday.
The improvement is not down to luck. Liverpool’s medical team, which includes Glen Driscoll as head of performance, have improved how they protect and condition players.
Instead of pulling players out of games, the idea is to manage their recovery better which is achieved, in one instance, by modifying training sessions using small spaces rather than full-scale pitches.
“You can easily prevent injury by wrapping your players in cotton wool and not letting them play games, but that isn’t the point,” said Driscoll, who first worked with Rodgers at Reading before joining him at Chelsea, Swansea and now Anfield.
“For Steven, Dan and Glen it was a simple process of looking back at every soft tissue injury, hamstring and calf strains are examples] that they had over the past two seasons and going through the process of analysing their training and recovery between matches and before each injury.
“Steven, for example, covers 120metres a minute in a game and in training previously he was hitting 90m a minute.
He is currently performing to 30 per cent of his average speed and only 10 per cent of his highintensity distance in the training sessions before matches, compared to when he got those previous injuries, which aids his recovery and reduces fatigue in preparation.
“In pre-season, we did say with confidence to Steven that we could keep him fit and recover him better, so that he could have another three or four years playing at a high level if he wanted.”
It may seem that Liverpool are divulging some of their secrets.
Another area looked at has been the removal of gym work on certain days because it does not aid recovery.
Yet the reality is that without Rodgers’ own understanding of the process, and willingness to embrace it, the facts and figures would be largely redundant.
“Controlling the extrinsic causes of injuries means controlling the training on the football pitch and understanding that it is all down to space, numbers of players and duration,” said Driscoll, who is aided by physio Chris Morgan and Ryland Morgans, another recruit from Swansea who is head of fi tness and conditioning.
“In football drills these decisions allow you to either protect or condition footballers. When to place these sessions in context to your next or previous match is the key.
“Many sport scientists don’t understand this, let alone managers. Some do but don’t have the influence to affect the management and their training.
“The beauty here is we have a manager who not only gets it but manipulates it as part of his own methods to achieve success and protect players from injury.
“The manager is aware that each player has a threshold level and if he goes above that threshold then the probability of injury in the next match rises.”
Players such as Luis Suarez, whoonly ever seems to miss games due to suspension, are regarded as being “relatively unbreakable”.
Others need more careful handling. The fact both groups are playing together shows the progress being made.If we are all only happy when we are really winning in the end, when your race finishes, what life would that be?Comment
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I could not dig, I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?Comment
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MRMCDNR.
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
May the Lord bless this post.Comment
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There's a good longer term take on our form here http://sporteconomics.co.uk/ - though it'd look even better now as we've won twice since. I don't think people generally (me included) realised just how bad our league form had been for a long while, and just how good it's been recently.Originally posted by ChesterDave View Post
Rodgers has turned the corner and got us on the up again and if we win our next two home games we'll be in touching distance of 4th by Christmas. I really can't see what more people were expecting at this stage, especially after the ****ty end to the transfer window.Comment
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Look who it is
Over a year since your last post. 
Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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Switched to lurking and twitter due to lack of time and the fact it wasn't doing me any good getting wound up on message boards - I was wound up enough on matchday without going through it all week! Am starting to feel relaxed enough about the team now to return though, hence my support in this threadOriginally posted by Shaggy View PostLook who it is
Over a year since your last post.
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Originally posted by calvoboy View PostSwitched to lurking and twitter due to lack of time and the fact it wasn't doing me any good getting wound up on message boards - I was wound up enough on matchday without going through it all week! Am starting to feel relaxed enough about the team now to return though, hence my support in this thread
wish I could do the same ... sadly I am hopeless Est 1892 junkie
Anybody who criticizes Klopp ever is a James Blunt. Nov 2015
#****CITYComment
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Stoke away, QPR away, and Sunderland at home.
7 points minimum from those 3 pleaseFootball without Origi is nothingComment
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