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Wellsey said:
Seriously not funny but Zest Zest Is there a reason why four of the Goons Women's team have suffered ACL injuries?
Training methods maybe?
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Women are several more times likely to have an ACL injury than men, it's a weird one. Not sure sports science has found one reason, but have come up with many factors
 
FightingIllini said:
ACL injuries are rampant in any women's sport in which they're cutting and changing direction, a significant contributor being the way women's bodies are constructed with wider hips and the legs pointing inwards leading to more lateral instability in the knee joint. Bunch of other things too, the female ACL is often somewhat thinner, the ratio of the strength of various muscle groups in female athletes tends to be different than men.

It's a little bit like the epidemic of Tommy John surgeries among baseball pitchers, we've reached a state when athletes can be easily trained to accomplish something their body can't reliably handle over time.
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I was told by a sports scientist that women's sports need to develop their own identity. That women's football( he called it Soccer..shudder) was a case In point. He said the attritional style that apes the mens game did not suit physiologically speaking and that ACL injuries were five times higher in thd female game. He said that we need to stop being afraid of differences embrace them and get a more technical style with differing emphasis in the women's game. Not gonna lie don't watch don't have time to care but I was shock about the five times rate of ACL injuries.
 
Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
I was told by a sports scientist that women's sports need to develop their own identity. That women's football( he called it Soccer..shudder) was a case In point. He said the attritional style that apes the mens game did not suit physiologically speaking and that ACL injuries were five times higher in thd female game. He said that we need to stop being afraid of differences embrace them and get a more technical style with differing emphasis in the women's game. Not gonna lie don't watch don't have time to care but I was shock about the five times rate of ACL injuries.
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Well that's why I bring up Tommy John surgeries in baseball.

It may very well be that playing to the maximum competitive level just makes ACL injury highly likely. So the game will always be dominated by players likely to need that surgery at some point in their careers. Trying to play any other way you'd just lose.
 
Blanchflower said:
You seem to have forgotten that they were only ever trying to get 4th place
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Excuse me, we're professional footballers and we appear to have got involved in a title challenge by mistake
 
I know it's not over yet, but can we take a minute to appreciate how much they've bottled this title. After the season we've had, them winning the league would have been the icing on the shittest of cakes. Thank fuck.
 
Higgo said:
I know it's not over yet, but can we take a minute to appreciate how much they've bottled this title. After the season we've had, them winning the league would have been the icing on the shittest of cakes. Thank fuck.
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Not over yet, city's biggest game is gonna be those Madrid ties, for players, coach and owners so possible the league could slip .
Away to Everton fighting for their lives
Away to Brighton
Away to Brentford

It's tough.

Fortunately I do expect Woolwich to bottle Newcastle tomorrow
 
Kaz Hirai said:
Not over yet, city's biggest game is gonna be those Madrid ties, for players, coach and owners so possible the league could slip .
Away to Everton fighting for their lives
Away to Brighton
Away to Brentford

It's tough.

Fortunately I do expect Woolwich to bottle Newcastle tomorrow
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Of course, but I feel good about them having a 4 point lead + the goal difference.
 
Remember when people on here were losing their shit about how lucky they were?

Turns out no one wins the league in fucking February when you're only a few points ahead of one of the greatest teams in Prem history who have games in hand.
 
Raf said:
Remember when people on here were losing their shit about how lucky they were?

Turns out no one wins the league in fucking February when you're only a few points ahead of one of the greatest teams in Prem history who have games in hand.
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Well that's exactly the thing though right?

The luck has evened out over the course of the season. Woolwich has been revealed as what they actually are, very good team, plays lovely football, never a title winner.
 
Not fucking laughing RIGHT now.....
More terrified of what they might achieve...
Barely 12 months after we were laughing at them... we're not laughing now.

They've overtaken us in a heartbeat....And it didn't take much...

That's why it's not funny... and I'm not laughing!!
 
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