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Probably frowned upon especially these days but we would have had to stay and hold our wee girls hand to help her fall asleep but when the other half was in hospital I done the "Cry it Out" method. Life saver wouldn't be the word.. Meant I had 1/2 hours in the evening to clean the house, do the washing, meal prep etc.. Also helped her sleep through the night which other half was glad off when she got out of hospital.

I used a sleep consultant (just one session) and she more or less gave me permission to do a version of "cry it out" - worked like a treat too, after two nights.  Has mainly slept through ever since.  About to transition him to a bed though - that'll be interesting...

Definitely 'cry it out',  absolutely works. Was very young with first one,  and I reckon in hindsight he had a diary intolerance,  so couldn't as he never shut up. Did it with the next 2 and it worked a treat....meant that by no 4,  many years later, I had the casting vote!!

I still have that. F**king hate meetings.

Smart hole!  I suffer the same affliction...

Some amount of boomers revealing themselves... young players probably doing a lot more training nowadays with no much recovery in between.

That too. Like i said, theres a difference in genuinely picking up an injury and needing to "person" up and play through that wee bit of pain everyone gets.

Not sure about anyone else but when I was 16/17/18 we would have trained twice a week with seniors, played senior game, minor game and trained once or twice with minors as well. 

Throw in school games on top of that.

I genuinely trained Tuesday Thursday Friday and then at the weekend from start of 1996 until October 2000 with basically no break (2 months around end of 1997 was the height of it). Also 2 gym sessions as well. Got plenty of success but it was intense

Probably frowned upon especially these days but we would have had to stay and hold our wee girls hand to help her fall asleep but when the other half was in hospital I done the "Cry it Out" method. Life saver wouldn't be the word.. Meant I had 1/2 hours in the evening to clean the house, do the washing, meal prep etc.. Also helped her sleep through the night which other half was glad off when she got out of hospital.

I used a sleep consultant (just one session) and she more or less gave me permission to do a version of "cry it out" - worked like a treat too, after two nights.  Has mainly slept through ever since.  About to transition him to a bed though - that'll be interesting...

Definitely 'cry it out',  absolutely works. Was very young with first one,  and I reckon in hindsight he had a diary intolerance,  so couldn't as he never shut up. Did it with the next 2 and it worked a treat....meant that by no 4,  many years later, I had the casting vote!!

I must be the only person watching traitors

Nope - good show and worth watching.
But it clashes with Love Island now - decisions decisions

Great entertainment,  last nights show was brilliant.

Traitors or Love Island the all stars (proper title)

Poor Jake had to leave, he didn't love anyone and Liberty shafted him.... 

Seemed like Jake matured a bit in the last few years and got the f**k out of dodge.

Paul is playing a great game in Traitors. Why Miles didnt really sink him last night when he knew he was going to get the chop is a mystery.

Miles tried but Harry played a clinker as well,  particularly sowing the seeds of 2 traitors fighting. He's playing the best game of them all

As for making the bottles at night,  filled them with boiling water going to bed and then just add the formula when you land down. Never did my 4 any harm

[Kids are made of paperEvery injury now requires surgery!! Players know about, hamstrings and metatarsals and ligaments (was a sore leg in my day)]

There 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. 

Yeah 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.

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

Has anyone used Doulas for their child birth?

This a job now, where some buck eejit sits with the woman during child birth and provides emotional support!

The worlds gone crazy

What about emotional support for the da?!?!  First time round I sought my emotional support half way through the job by heading to Sphinx on Stranmillis for a '1 on Chips'....thats what I call support!!!

Anyway, congrats BB on the cub,  I'd get the Tommee Tippee going asap.  Give the missus a break,  it's hard going but if an auld fart like me could do it at 45-ish then you're well fit for it. Happy mummy is a happy household....trust me on that!

I must be the only person watching traitors

Nope - good show and worth watching.
But it clashes with Love Island now - decisions decisions

Great entertainment,  last nights show was brilliant.

Used to be a poster on here from Dublin when Vincent's were strong who posted a lot of stuff similar to Oso....cant remember but he and I used to go at it hard.

Anyway,  Glen to win the final but the Rossies to really put it up to them. Definitely no walkover but would love to see Glen do it. M O'R is a real gent and it would vindicate his decision to stay with them rather than taking the Derry job.

Indiana

whatever happened indiana

The very one, in fairness he was good for a row but was wild arrogant on it!

The reality is any compensation that comes from this can never recompense the suffering these people have been through. This is one of the most monumental f**k ups in British legal history and that's saying something!!!! 

Used to be a poster on here from Dublin when Vincent's were strong who posted a lot of stuff similar to Oso....cant remember but he and I used to go at it hard.

Anyway,  Glen to win the final but the Rossies to really put it up to them. Definitely no walkover but would love to see Glen do it. M O'R is a real gent and it would vindicate his decision to stay with them rather than taking the Derry job.

Is it a prerequisite to be a PT now that you have to sit in an ice bath for a few minutes every morning and tell the world about it?

I was saying this a while ago. They'd sicken you.

Ice baths aren't a new thing though. The rugby ones were at it 30 years ago and then it slipped into the GAA clubs not long after. I remember mortar tubs landing up to training and filled with ice cold water. A fella in Lurgan had the ice bath and a membership thing for years and I loved it. But of course PTs come and sicken your hole about it and put you off it altogether.

We had 2 old bath tubs in the showers in 1997/98 filled every night after training with ice. Not sure it ever helped everyone but it was always a bit of craic. We have an ice pod now,  small one,  that we fill with really cold water and sometimes ice and it does help from what I can tell.

As for the PTs some good, some bad, you can get everything the do on YouTube but are you motivated enough?

Another of people here being quite blasfemous. Around the year 2000 I had an awful time with the runs and visited a nun in Portglenone. She had a good look and hoke about, put her hands over me and said something in Latin. Within 3 weeks my bowels were hunky dory and since then I've only had the runs about 10 times. These things work if you are open minded. Her name was Sister Bradley but she was since derobed over a betting scandal but still does cures from her home in Stranocum.

Stranocum is the place for that ....her and sweet Stella's Da in competition...

I would say that the very sophisticated gentlemen here arguing about this wine or that (or whiskey) would struggle to tell the difference in a blind taste test.

I'd definitely tell a white from a red in a blind taste test.

Wine or diesel?

Henderson could do the business with a lot of PL clubs.. He's not a huge creative player but manages to get up and down the pitch.. Could do a job at Utd

He has West Ham or Wolves written all over him.