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Old 27th March 2008, 16:03   #576 (permalink)
fredthered
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Originally Posted by Pogue Mahone View Post
Erm... No I didn't say that. I said it can continue to be improved up until the point at which you start to decline physically. Which is around about the mid to late twenties.

Then you've got a few years where some attributes continue to improve while others start to decline, some more rapidly than others. Next thing you know, you're in your mid-thirties, a decrepit old fart like me, literally everything starts going south (apart from the grey matter, for another few decades anyway) and it's all downhill from there.

What is total bollox is this concept of a glass ceiling where a player - who is training his nuts off, whilst maturing physically and constantly getting stronger, quicker and more practised at what he does - suddenly finds that specific aspects of his game starts to stagnate, for no other reason than he's apparently reached the limit of his "natural talent"

The limitless improvement thingy was only ever hypothetical and based on Plech's age-defying magic pills.

Natural ability cannot be improved.

What can be improved is the way you apply that ability to the skills you are shown.

A player can be naturally gifted, but if he cant use that ability with the skills required then he is useless. Likewise you can play by the book and be the perfect player in terms of doing as asked, but without natural ability then once again it wont work.

Knowledge and skill come with experience.

Ability is something you are born with and it stays with you till you die.
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