Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
So Keenor, Ferguson, Blair, Ford, Malloy, Hitchens, Harrington, Gibson, Allchurch, Toshack, Clark, King etc wouldn’t survive 10 minutes in this era with today’s training regimes? For their time they were fit as fiddles playing on energy sapping mudheaps kicking a wet cannonball. Of course they’d survive on the bowling greens of today, skill wise certainly, what they produced on those pitches was, looking back, quite amazing. And they’d be as fit as fiddles today and cope comfortably.
According to this they would need to run three times further. Perhaps attaining and maintaining the levels of fitness to achieve those distances compared with the 70s may be relevant.

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