If they used zinger boxes as training incentives, he’d be unstoppable on the track.
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Missing a school formal for a training session is way over the top and a little concerning if you ask me. It’s a one off event to celebrate fimishing school with your mates. He won’t get that again… in the scheme of his career, one training session means very little.
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Plenty of professional athletes take it too seriously and get performance related anxiety as well.
Train hard
Recover hard
Enjoy life
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But that’s your mindset. You have a different one to him, that’s your choice but if you both had the exact same talent he would likely be better than you.
Professionals also know when to switch off, I don’t see a problem with Sanders going to his formal. If I were his coach, I’d have advised him to go to the formal, but it’s his choice.
If a player chooses to relax with a drink and does it responsibly, I don’t see that it should be frowned upon.
Every player is different, and has different attitudes. People are just overestimating the impact of moderate levels of alcohol on recovery.
In season, I can understand abstaining as the season goes on because players pick up niggles and get more sore as the season goes on, so drinking then may not be the best thing.
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Or… he’d burn out.
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Of course. I don’t see it as a big issue but you never answered my question.
You don’t know it was just a couple.
I did, but not directly to you.
I posted above that if it was a couple of drinks, and they’d done their recovery, that it was fine. If it was a lot of drinks, it was a problem.
We both know it’s more than a beer.
Let the boys enjoy Cruisers like the rest of us
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Doesn’t bother me, but I’d be wanting to put my best foot forward for the team and coach and try avoid booze first couple of weeks coming back to preseason training
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Do we? How do you know?
Because I was young once, I never went to a pub for one.
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Yes, we’d all love them to be training 16-17 hour days, because ‘standards’.
Having a drink at an appropriate time doesn’t make you unprofessional. If it starts to impact your training, sure, then it’s a problem. Until then, the players can drink responsibly, and they shouldn’t be deprived of that because people have their own perspectives that aren’t necessarily backed by evidence.
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sounds like a problem with you, not the players
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That’s your choice. Players can make theirs.
As long as they weren’t upsetting or hurting anyone else, I don’t give a fark what they do in their own time.
Heck, if a midweek beer or two in season helps them relax and perform each Saturday, fkn go for it lads.
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Haha it’s an Aussie thing when going to a pub.
We are taking about footy players, they aren’t innocent but I hope they tear it up on and off the field