Gordon Strachan urges Scottish players

As for players working harder, we’ve been hearing this for the last 3 decades and we’re still saying it. How the feck are young players passing through the club system, over a lot of years, and still lacking the basics?

Cantona used to stay back after official training had finished and practise things like his free-kicks.

SAF said he was a great influence on the youngsters at MUFC who watched him 'volunteer' to do that.

LeGuen made the Rangers players come back to training after lunch.

He had his faults LeGuen - although it would have been interesting to see the sustained effect of extra training/practise but we are not to know now

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Red ash pitches oh the memories, oh the fekkin agony trying tae get the grit oot yer skin every week. Yer maw would dab it with Dettol an aw ffs !

Happy school days.

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Fair enough about Svensson.

He did sign Papac and Clement as well

The results dictated that he had to go.

There's something a bit depressing about they way some professionals conducted thierselves during that episode...

John Collins had the same issue at hibs - players moaning about doing extra training drills. Pampered, living in a wee bubble, shower o’ neer do wells

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/hibernian/6560587.stm

It's all good saying it but will players actually take notice? Or will they be too busy munching a nandos after training?

Aye the Scottish lifestyle doesn't help but if you ingrain the benefits of living well into players at youth level then that should hold them in good stead for their whole career.
Education, education, education. No having a dig but some players aren’t the brightest so give them the message in a Janet & John format.
If you live this way, treat your body this way then the benefits are…

The kids at the Performance schools get lessons on the importance of healthy eating etc


Whether or not they can then take that home and get the nutrition they need from their parents is another matter. Eating the right things can often be expensive and time consuming and some families simply can't afford either thing.

IGIM - aye I can appreciate the fact that money may be an issue but it’s not that much more expensive to eat well. It’s more a viscous circle - the parents buy ready made meals as they don’t have basic cooking skills. Also the parents lack the education - who’d make their kids rubbish to eat if they were aware of the damage it was doing. Obesity in kids is brutal to see and damages them in the long term