formerly known as ivan

Top performance this

We are heading to another lockdown. Personally speaking I would rather that now and be able to enjoy some sort of Christmas. Lets be honest, if they leave it any longer and try to lockdown for Christmas, they have no chance!

Anyone watching Buatsi tonight?

Yeah, nothing better to do on a Saturday night. Looking forward to seeing Wardley. However, judging by the early stages of tonight there is no way I would be paying for the Whyte fight in a few weeks.

Bad enough seeing this crap on Facebook, don’t need it rubbing in my face on here as well

A good performance and win will not do the long term future of our club any good.

Strong advice, thanks for that. So much depends on the day I’ve had as well which is why I’m trying to keep to the morning runs so I have no excuses. Hope the ankle improves soon. Done a 1.5 mile run tonight with the Mrs doing her couch to 5k and my ass cheek felt good so hopefully back to running tomorrow morning.

I don’t get how you can make yourself run if you don’t enjoy it. Speaking personally here, but it’s when I don’t enjoy it I don’t do it. When I see improvements and hit milestones the energy is great. I know before I even leave the house if it will be a good run or not purely but the way I am feeling. As mentioned above, the Mrs is getting into the couch to 5k and running was the last thing she ever thought she would be. She was hating it as it is obviously a struggle making a start but in less than two weeks, with slight improvements each time, when we finished the most recent run a few days ago she actually said at the end of it... ‘I enjoyed that’. I honestly couldn’t believe it. Never thought I would hear those words coming from her mouth after a run!

Injury question... Been doing so light running with the Mrs as she is getting into the couch to 5k and in between those days I’ve been doing my usual 3 miles. Been like this for just over a week now. Done one of the light runs last night and everything was fine but I’ve woken up this morning with a pain on my right hand side where the top of the leg and ass cheeks meet. Believe this is the glute muscle? Can barely walk on that leg. Anyone injured this before, know what could have caused it or got any advice on how what to do? Cheers

Whyte has started legal action against the WBC in order to get his title shot. We all want to see the Fury/AJ fight but fair play to Whyte, whose been ignored and overlooked for far to long.

Appreciate that, but surely the virus could have been passed around since the last test was done? Or are their results pretty much immediately?

Norwich player has tested positive and now has the isolate for 7 days. Here is the bit that confuses me... assuming he played in their friendly vs Spurs the other day, surely all his teammates and everyone connected to that game should now have to self isolate for 14 days?

High risks for Whyte. If he lost that fight he may never get a title shot. Thing with Whyte though, he has proven he is willing to take the big fights with high risk attached.

Still think Whyte should get a title shot before Fury/AJ meet. Whyte continues to get constantly screwed over. It’s an embarrassment he’s never had his moment.

Order myself a new short sleeved running top as all mine seem to have shrunk from being locked away over the summer months...

Wonder what the split would be between Sky and BT???

You’d think, but if players are sticking to the rules as they should you’d have to question how there are new infections? Bournemouth was last week!

Additional, from 3 different clubs

4 more positive tests from this rounds testing in the prem

Sounds familiar, with the exception of the 20 miles! Before lockdown I would run 5 miles home after work as it would save so much on bus fares. And during the summer months I would sweat more on the bus than running 5 miles! Since lockdown I’ve tried lunchtime runs to get out the house but it’s too easy to not go if I can’t be bothered.

For those that do morning runs, do you mean get up and go, or just at any point in the morning? I would like to just get up and go for a run but my body just doesn’t feel ready for it straight away. Any tips of warm up/stretches for a get up and go run?

I do get where Rooney is coming from. Yes there is the argument that frontline workers, especially those in the NHS, do not have the environment or possibility to work within the social distancing guidelines and out themselves at risk every day. However, this is because their role is serving a purpose and without them we would be a hell of a lot worse off than what we are. You cannot put into words what these people have done over the last couple of months. Then there is football. What real purpose do they serve in going back to ‘work’? They are not key workers, their jobs are not invaluable to the health and safety of the nation. There is no difference between allowing them to go back to work and reopening every office in the country and scrapping social distancing. I’ve said before on this thread, take the money it will cost to play out the rest of the season and out it towards the NHS or another worthwhile cause. If the Bundesliga games this weekend is anything to go by and games are going to be played at pre season pace then there really is no point.

Anyone know if you can have two apps running at once? Wouldn't mind joining you on Strava as long as I can have my usual running app running at the same time for my interval running.

Where did Rooney make his comments?

I was listening to something on this the other day and the feeling was that players OOC wouldn’t risk continuing to play after their contract end date as it would risk injury. Say you are 30 years old and hoping for one last big contract but you break your leg playing in a game on the 10th July. That would be your career pretty much over at a decent level. The advice to players was walk away (apparently they get a month’s severance pay through to the end of July anyway which I didn’t know was the case) take that months pay and get a new club by August.