Does anyone else think of Chamkha when they think of snoods or am I getting old?
Sean Dyche has banned snoods and hats from training
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Snoods should've been banned years ago, to be fair.
I read it and yes, actually, that is pretty much all it has to do with. Utterly pointless
Training how you play on match day = being a hard man. Ok.
Along with a lot of running and drills. Guess what makes better TV?
Football training is football training. They all do very similar stuff. There’s no way Dyche somehow keeps his players uniquely active. If anything, as a new manager, his training will be more stop-start then most. At least it should be. He needs to teach them new ideas and change the way they play, not crack on as usual. Which will take some explaining.
If it was another manager I could buy that as the main reason.
But the lasting image of Dyche in my head is as the guy who was standing in snow with just a shirt on, and a massive grin. I reckon he's the sort to look down on people who feel the cold and think they're soft, and he's just using the matchday thing as an excuse.
Utter non story. Reminds me of the time Moyes banned chips and everyone kicked off.
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Lamb or pork?
I mean... yeah? It would be odd if he wasn't. He time as manager here started 37 years ago, ended 10 years ago and the snood ban (and his "real men don't wear things like that" "they're for powder puffs" reasoning) was 13 years ago. There are literally people who were 5 years old at the time playing for the club now, it would hardly be a surprise that an approach and attitude from then seems dated to people all this time later.
Don’t really see the hard-on either way. As part of a train-how-you-play approach to improve the day-to-day professionalism it makes sense. It’s a little bit of grandstanding but sometimes that’s necessary to shift the culture.
Players won’t train for 4-5 hours. It’ll be 1-2 hours maximum.
It’s a really fecking odd Northern English macho archetype. See also fat geordies in St James Park watching winter fixtures with no shirt on.
I disagree, I think there are a lot of things you can take from Dyche as being someone who wants hard work, discipline and determination through his side but I don’t think that this is an example of being a hard man. I think you could argue this is an example of trying to be disciplined and I still more professionalism however. If there are quotes out there where Dyche says that people who wear snoods and hats are wimps or whatever then I’ll stand to be corrected and that’s fine, but all I’m seeing is a man who has a principle that the club he’s at/players he has should train as close to a match environment as possible. I don’t think it has anything to do with ‘being a hard man’.
not sure getting pumped 6-0 in training is going to do morale much good in the long run.
Was meant to say chips. Damn autocorrect
Little do the media know about Dyche's mantra behind the scenes:
He’ll be banning chips and ketchup next
Fixed.
yeh, I’m just a weather geek so any excuse to pull out some weather stats and I’m there!
I get that, but they're wearing training gear already which is warmer. It's more the ergonomics for me rather than the warmth. You can't move the same or get the kind of feel you get in a match when wearing hats, snoods, scarfs or whatever it is that you can't wear on the pitch.
Just my opinion anyway and why I'd agree with the logic behind it (if that is indeed Dyche's reasoning).
Apparently got all the players to complete an anonymous questionnaire with their thoughts on what’s going wrong at the club.
Just been chatting about him on Soccer AM
Just been chatting about him on Soccer AM
Classic.
With extra gravy.
If you aren't going hard in training, then that is the problem.
I can't imagine that Arteta is telling his squad to lose the superfluous outerwear because whatever they're doing is working. Everton are in the relegation zone. Dyche can do what he wants to take his players out of their (literal) comfort zone. Maybe he should tell them that they can start wearing snoods, tights, and mascara when they actually start winning a few games.
If the dinosaurs had snoods and hats, they would have had a higher chance of surviving.
Should be fun for Everton players and fans.
Expect a lot of ranting, yet carefully selected words these days that don't offend anyone.
Lots of running, hard work, pashun and eventually staying up by 1 point.
Expect a lot of ranting, yet carefully selected words these days that don't offend anyone.
Lots of running, hard work, pashun and eventually staying up by 1 point.
You don’t play the match wearing a beanie so maybe it’s better.
hes actually very clued up on sports science and uses it very well.
players will always do what they are told as long as they are picked and winning.
players will always do what they are told as long as they are picked and winning.
classicThe logic is solid, he just wants the players to train in the same conditions as they play.
And this also helps him identify players that are already disconnected mentally, being a little bit unreasonable on things (like the point that trainings won't be a 90 minutes exercise of intensity and some players might get a little bit cold) are right, but if some players don't complain about the change and others do, it basically helps him thin the herd from players that may let him down, costing Everton 3 or 5 points that can be vital.
Things are not not just black and white.
Reminds me of Javier Clemente when he was saving teams from relegation in La Liga, he usually came in at full hairdresser mode, got rid of the divas and found a group of hard working players that ended saving the team, as a coach he usually was liked by half the team, and hated by the other half after his first 4 months, but that helped him do his job in the short term.
And this also helps him identify players that are already disconnected mentally, being a little bit unreasonable on things (like the point that trainings won't be a 90 minutes exercise of intensity and some players might get a little bit cold) are right, but if some players don't complain about the change and others do, it basically helps him thin the herd from players that may let him down, costing Everton 3 or 5 points that can be vital.
Things are not not just black and white.
Reminds me of Javier Clemente when he was saving teams from relegation in La Liga, he usually came in at full hairdresser mode, got rid of the divas and found a group of hard working players that ended saving the team, as a coach he usually was liked by half the team, and hated by the other half after his first 4 months, but that helped him do his job in the short term.
He also doesn't seem to understand what the term myth busting means. He's not busting any myths telling people what to wear.
Would love for the results of that anonymous questionaire to be released
Sean Daesh
Sean Dyche is the best thing that could happen to Everton. He’ll keep them up.
Just an exercise of seeing who will follow the rules and who won’t.
He was referring to the part he said before, actually: " Everyone makes the mythical story that it’s hard lines from Sean Dyche."
Banning snoods makes perfect sense.