Quote from: Armagh18 on January 18, 2024, 12:02:11 PMQuote from: Ethan Tremblay on January 18, 2024, 11:59:35 AMYeah obviously theres going to be genuine cases of muscles going and stuff but I'd say a fair amount of the time players need to man the f**k up and play through a bit of discomfort.Quote from: Milltown Row2 on January 18, 2024, 10:37:16 AMThere are a few things different from back in the day..
Pitches are harder
Shoes are different
Training in the gym
Kids are made of paper
Every injury now requires surgery!!
Players know about, hamstrings and metatarsals and ligaments (was a sore leg in my day)
Players are bigger
Diet plans
Few other factors as to why we have these injuries I'm sure..
The enjoyment I'm sure is still there but, seems like hard work in comparison to the, hill runs during the week preseasons and the drills with the ball at the weekend
Aye exactly this. I find the young guys coming from our minor team to the senior team are all specialists in complicated injuries and are getting told they need surgery etc.
There are no more "sore legs" its all hamstring tendinopathy this and osteitis pubis that.
I think parents have a lot of input here putting it in their heads they are 'injured', rather than just sore.
Not allowed to say 'man up'. Get with the program!!!
While players now have greater conditioning opportunities etc I would question that they are any 'stronger' than we were 25 years ago. Could maybe bench press more but genuinely question their core strength. As for fitness, I've trained teams the way we trained when I was playing and they could not do it. Simple as that