Training off

[SwissBlade]

Read on the OS that training was cancelled on Monday. Now i'm all for letting the lads have a day off over Chrimbo but to call training off. More to the point where are these players travelling from???

I went from Chesterfield to a Wedding up in the lakes on Monday and although it snowed quite heavy on Sunday round Sheffield, the roads were fine on Monday and it was only up in the Lakes that it got heavy.

I know we have a few lads on loan so they may travel in, but i'd expect all the permanent signed lads to live fairly local to Sheffield so they can get to work on a Monday morning.

Plus Killa could've gone around and picked them up in his pimp wagon

Its not like any of these players can't afford an extra set of wheels and winter tyres to be fitted in the winter months

Am I being harsh on this?

 

[Santos]

I think it's wrong to assume all our squad live in Sheffield. I'd say at this stage of the season when we have two games in two days we'd be loathed to cancel training, you just have to trust whoever made the call.

 

[SwissBlade]

I think it's wrong to assume all our squad live in Sheffield. I'd say at this stage of the season when we have two games in two days we'd be loathed to cancel training, you just have to trust whoever made the call.

By the way its not a dig at the club and I don't expect players to live in Sheffield and I know that its only one day's training, but I'd expect that if they were going to be settled at the club then they'd live within a decent commutable distance... perhaps an hour so so... Just very surprising that so many couldn't make it for 10 ish

 

[SotonBlade]

I know some of the squad used ot live manchester way, so if they had to travel down the snakepass, then there would have been no way of them getting to training

 

[SwissBlade]

I know some of the squad used ot live manchester way, so if they had to travel down the snakepass, then there would have been no way of them getting to training

Well I went over the M62 at 9am and it was fine.

 

[Ballinpigpubs13]

Most of our pampered super-stars drive big powerfull 4x4's so how they can't wade through the massive 1.5 inch of snow to training is a joke.

 

[theblade1957]

is it to much to ask that these overpaid underachieving 4 x 4 driving footballers to turn up for training and why was it called off, bet pounds they still get paid for it,and befor anyone says it was frozen, at shirecliffe there is a very good indoor pitch that can be used, it makes me sick that nearly everone else had to work when these gets have a day off again

 

[JohnDenver]

This is actually an interesting experiment. We don't "train" players so much as slowly strangle any promise they once showed.

So let's just see if Squinny can put his foot on it on Saturday. And Monty smite one in from 30 yards. This is science now. It really could happen...

 

[DuncDisorderly]

Am I being harsh on this?

For a change, yes. The lads are amongst the fittest in the league, and having a morning in bed isn't going to hurt anything. Summat o'nowt...

 

[Robbie]

For a change, yes. The lads are amongst the fittest in the league, and having a morning in bed isn't going to hurt anything. Summat o'nowt...

It might be something over nothing, but cancelling training because of a bit of snow?

Surely they could still have got them in and showing them research on the opponents they are due up against.

I understand the none training itself, but to not get them in for other activities (like above) is a bit bizarre. Also as said, there is an indoor pitch (although not very big) if they wanted to do some light training.

 

[shorehamview]

It depends where they live and what they drive. Sure, some of them have big 4x4s, but Killa's Range Rover Sport has big drug-dealer alloys with very low profile tyres, so it's not really too well suited to tricky weather. How many other footballers get a big off-roader then bugger about with it to make it almost useless off-road? I would think that with the availability of t'interweb they could have had a webcam session. Ooer. Either that or Blackwell could have simply phoned them and briefed them on the forthcoming match.