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AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Worst I've seen
Cheers. Good to have support from the football community.On behalf of all football fans I'd like to wish Manchester City the very best as they start their fight for justice today against the tyrannical Premier League.
Rodri has legitimate gripes about the amount of football he's been asked to play, but the gripes should really be against the club more than the schedule.
Maybe FIFA needs to mandate a maximum number of minutes each player can play domestically, and a max in internationals in a season or calender year.
Then the clubs need to manage those minutes a bit better than they currently do.
My big gripes with the schedule is not enough rest between matches. Something I think UEFA and the league need to do much better with.
**** that. Why should the domestic league suffer? **** off more of the European football.The only real solution would be scrapping the league cup and reducing the league to 18 teams / 34 games.
That would pretty much solve player overloading issues.
Agree. Shouldn't be changing things just for big clubs.** that. Why should the domestic league suffer? ** off more of the European football.
Great for the 18 teams, 1/18th of shitloads is much better than 1/20th of shitloads.The only real solution would be scrapping the league cup and reducing the league to 18 teams / 34 games.
That would pretty much solve player overloading issues.
The only real solution would be scrapping the league cup and reducing the league to 18 teams / 34 games.
That would pretty much solve player overloading issues.
Remember watching Italia 90. I'd never heard of the bloke but he couldn't stop scoring. Sad news.
We shouldn't expect players to forego international tournaments, often the highlight of their careers. Nor should we expect them to refuse to play for their club. It'll be the end of their career if we do that.As far as I know, no one holds a gun to these guys heads and tells them they have to make themselves available for every game at International level at least. He didn't have to play Euros if he wanted a longer rest.
And for $200k+ per week, don't tell me these guys aren't adequately compensated for their workloads.
Yes I agree clubs need to be more flexible and probably need to rotate their squad more than the current trend. Especially the top clubs that participate in multiple competitions and have a bigger squad depth. How do you enforce it though? You can't say 'clubs A,B,C must play x amount of players for x amount of minutes per year, while clubs X,Y, Z can do whatever they want'We shouldn't expect players to forego international tournaments, often the highlight of their careers. Nor should we expect them to refuse to play for their club. It'll be the end of their career if we do that.
Clubs need to take more responsibility IMO.