How much is too much? Marcus Rashford, burnout and player welfare article

[NYCBlue]

Re: How much is too much? Marcus Rashford, burnout and player welfare article

Brady has played 36 games in the last two years with a 9 month break between competitive games compared to Rashford who has played 114 games in two years with a break of 34 days between. I don't want to be rude but you should know the scenarios are different for multiple reasons.

It's not an article about Rashford, it's just using his name to make the point. No one is asking you to feel sympathy for any one individual.

The fans want more games, the sponsors want more games, the ruling bodies want more games but at what point do we start to talk about player welfare? For some of you on here the answer appears to be never.

I was merely pointing out a fact. I'm sorry if you found it inconvenient.

[lardy]

Re: How much is too much? Marcus Rashford, burnout and player welfare article

The mental strain I can accept and sympathise with.

The physical one is just pathetic though. You’re getting paid to play your hobby as a living. Why would you ever complain about playing.

I don't think footballers feel tired the way we feel when we say we're tired. If you asked them on any given day to run 10k, they could. A 50% "tired" pro player would run rings around just about any of us on top form.

It's about their physical condition not being where it should be when they're playing against teams who are at that level. It's about the small mistakes they might make after 70 minutes that cost a goal, not that they need to sit down.

If you think about Olympic athletes, they will spend all year trying to get themselves to peak at the right time. Why are footballers any different? Their bodies will have peak periods, and too many games mean fewer peak periods, which means underperforming.

[AfricanBluebird]

Re: How much is too much? Marcus Rashford, burnout and player welfare article

Tom Brady just played an entire season and won a Super Bowl with a torn MCL.

The average distance covered by an American Football player is 1.5 km per game.

Someone like Rashford will cover around 13 km per game.

Rashford isn't looking for sympathy here, it's just the reality of the game.

I do feel for lower league players who don't have access to the medical facilities and expertise of the top players.

On the other hand I've played in the Welsh leagues, got plenty of kickings, played on terrible pitches and pissed on in the changing room. Wouldn't change it for the world and did it with only occassally getting some Beer money... But we should look at ways of looking after elite athletes like Rashford and I do think footballers careers are extending past the usual 32 and 33 sell by date.

[cityhammer]

Re: How much is too much? Marcus Rashford, burnout and player welfare article

A Group of guys has just ridden round France covering over 3400km in 21 days, Geraint Thomas dislocated a shoulder on day 3 and still finished in Paris, He once rode 21 days with a fractured pelvis after a crash on the first stage.

[life on mars]

Re: How much is too much? Marcus Rashford, burnout and player welfare article

A Group of guys has just ridden round France covering over 3400km in 21 days, Geraint Thomas dislocated a shoulder on day 3 and still finished in Paris, He once rode 21 days with a fractured pelvis after a crash on the first stage.

Bet Geriant would have scored that penalty with his injuries , no hop skipping and jumping from our Geriant, straight in , no drama.