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The reported level of fitness training seemed to vary widely between Gio and Beale but we still end up with our players dropping like flies with injuries.  Similarly, we have changed our medical staff to no avail.
By law of averages, I think you can expect a reasonable number of injuries to occur each season but we seem to be getting more than our fair share.  The only thing I can put my finger on, is that we do play a lot of games combining Europe and domestic competitions, that must add up over time. Also, most of our games are pretty intense, a rightly demanding crowd wants wins at all costs and the players to go the extra mile to get them.  This is not helped by the continued failure of our team to put games to bed early on, it seems as if every week now we have go into the last 10-20 minutes either scrambling to hold on or to find winning goals from somewhere.

That’s me understanding of how it is done in England - no idea if we use the same system up here.
 
Think England use the entire goal line not just the goal, but essentially same thing. Set that as your reference line and have the meterage of both sidelines calibrated on the camera view so the line can be moved up the pitch keeping it parallel to the original reference plane.  Relies quite heavily on the pitch being set out pretty accurately to avoid the lines getting messed up.
 
Have wondered if there is a better system where we can simply set a drone located above the centre circle (would have to be high enough to not interfere with high kicks but we have indoor stadiums so must be calculable) get it positioned so that it is perfectly aligned between the centre of the two goals and the halfway line and you have an overhead view that you should then be able to pretty quickly drop perpendicular lines onto to set out where a player is.
 
Only other way I could see would be for players to have RFID chips in the boots / strips. Would mean a change in the way we view it as would probably just be one in each boot and then say one in the chest of the strip but could mean some of the more contentious ones where there is literally a toe or a forehead offside would disappear.
 

On what datum line are the cameras calibrated?  I wouldn’t have thought that the side lines, centre lines and byelines are set out by the groundsman to a very high level of accuracy, although I may be wrong.  If I was setting it out on an instrument, I would probably take the centre point of each goal, draw a datum line between them and take the offside line at right angles to that datum.  It could be that the side lines may not be fully parallel with, or the same length as the central datum line.
The cameras themselves, plus the reading of them, must have some plus and negative tolerance so there must always be some grey area even if small. One wonders who gets the benefit of the doubt in these cases or if they just totally ignore the instrument/reading tolerance.
You also have to think why the offside law was introduced in the first place, presumably to prevent the attacking team seeking an unfair advantage.  If that advantage cannot even be deciphered by the human eye, how can it be considered to be unfairly sought.  You would think that some reasonable margin of error (say 300mm) would be given to the attacking team to account for this.
 

Prefer to focus on the positives of his time with us.
Top goal scorer in European competitions as well as scoring his share domestically.
Hardly missed a game though injury in almost 5years.
Basically led the attack on his own for most of his time with us, in the process taking all kinds of stick from opposition players, fans and press alike.
Never gave us any great issues of the park despite him probably getting a lot of abuse from lowlife while out and about. 
For me, it was quite sad the way it ended for him with us.  For a foreign player, he probably spent too long with us and lost some of his motivation when he didn’t get moved on (it was never any secret that he saw us a stepping stone).  I think also we overlook that his injury in 2022 was the first long term injury he had to come back from and it showed in his performance and him being out of condition. 
 
All in all will look back fondly in his time with us.  Wish him well in the future.

Prefer to focus on the positives of his time with us.
Top goal scorer in European competitions as well as scoring his share domestically.
Hardly missed a game though injury in almost 5years.
Basically led the attack on his own for most of his time with us, in the process taking all kinds of stick from opposition players, fans and press alike.
Never gave us any great issues of the park despite him probably getting a lot of abuse from lowlife while out and about. 
For me, it was quite sad the way it ended for him with us.  For a foreign player, he probably spent too long with us and lost some of his motivation when he didn’t get moved on (it was never any secret that he saw us a stepping stone).  I think also we overlook that his injury in 2022 was the first long term injury he had to come back from and it showed in his performance and him being out of condition. 
 
All in all will look back fondly in his time with us.  Wish him well in the future.

Prefer to focus on the positives of his time with us.
Top goal scorer in European competitions as well as scoring his share domestically.
Hardly missed a game though injury in almost 5years.
Basically led the attack on his own for most of his time with us, in the process taking all kinds of stick from opposition players, fans and press alike.
Never gave us any great issues of the park despite him probably getting a lot of abuse from lowlife while out and about. 
For me, it was quite sad the way it ended for him with us.  For a foreign player, he probably spent too long with us and lost some of his motivation when he didn’t get moved on (it was never any secret that he saw us a stepping stone).  I think also we overlook that his injury in 2022 was the first long term injury he had to come back from and it showed in his performance and him being out of condition. 
 
All in all will look back fondly in his time with us.  Wish him well in the future.

Prefer to focus on the positives of his time with us.
Top goal scorer in European competitions as well as scoring his share domestically.
Hardly missed a game though injury in almost 5years.
Basically led the attack on his own for most of his time with us, in the process taking all kinds of stick from opposition players, fans and press alike.
Never gave us any great issues of the park despite him probably getting a lot of abuse from lowlife while out and about. 
For me, it was quite sad the way it ended for him with us.  For a foreign player, he probably spent too long with us and lost some of his motivation when he didn’t get moved on (it was never any secret that he saw us a stepping stone).  I think also we overlook that his injury in 2022 was the first long term injury he had to come back from and it showed in his performance and him being out of condition. 
 
All in all will look back fondly in his time with us.  Wish him well in the future.

Prefer to focus on the positives of his time with us.
Top goal scorer in European competitions as well as scoring his share domestically.
Hardly missed a game though injury in almost 5years.
Basically led the attack on his own for most of his time with us, in the process taking all kinds of stick from opposition players, fans and press alike.
Never gave us any great issues of the park despite him probably getting a lot of abuse from lowlife while out and about. 
For me, it was quite sad the way it ended for him with us.  For a foreign player, he probably spent too long with us and lost some of his motivation when he didn’t get moved on (it was never any secret that he saw us a stepping stone).  I think also we overlook that his injury in 2022 was the first long term injury he had to come back from and it showed in his performance and him being out of condition. 
 
All in all will look back fondly in his time with us.  Wish him well in the future.

Prefer to focus on the positives of his time with us.
Top goal scorer in European competitions as well as scoring his share domestically.
Hardly missed a game though injury in almost 5years.
Basically led the attack on his own for most of his time with us, in the process taking all kinds of stick from opposition players, fans and press alike.
Never gave us any great issues of the park despite him probably getting a lot of abuse from lowlife while out and about. 
For me, it was quite sad the way it ended for him with us.  For a foreign player, he probably spent too long with us and lost some of his motivation when he didn’t get moved on (it was never any secret that he saw us a stepping stone).  I think also we overlook that his injury in 2022 was the first long term injury he had to come back from and it showed in his performance and him being out of condition. 
 
All in all will look back fondly in his time with us.  Wish him well in the future.

Prefer to focus on the positives of his time with us.
Top goal scorer in European competitions as well as scoring his share domestically.
Hardly missed a game though injury in almost 5years.
Basically led the attack on his own for most of his time with us, in the process taking all kinds of stick from opposition players, fans and press alike.
Never gave us any great issues of the park despite him probably getting a lot of abuse from lowlife while out and about. 
For me, it was quite sad the way it ended for him with us.  For a foreign player, he probably spent too long with us and lost some of his motivation when he didn’t get moved on (it was never any secret that he saw us a stepping stone).  I think also we overlook that his injury in 2022 was the first long term injury he had to come back from and it showed in his performance and him being out of condition. 
 
All in all will look back fondly in his time with us.  Wish him well in the future.

Prefer to focus on the positives of his time with us.
Top goal scorer in European competitions as well as scoring his share domestically.
Hardly missed a game though injury in almost 5years.
Basically led the attack on his own for most of his time with us, in the process taking all kinds of stick from opposition players, fans and press alike.
Never gave us any great issues of the park despite him probably getting a lot of abuse from lowlife while out and about. 
For me, it was quite sad the way it ended for him with us.  For a foreign player, he probably spent too long with us and lost some of his motivation when he didn’t get moved on (it was never any secret that he saw us a stepping stone).  I think also we overlook that his injury in 2022 was the first long term injury he had to come back from and it showed in his performance and him being out of condition. 
 
All in all will look back fondly in his time with us.  Wish him well in the future.

Prefer to focus on the positives of his time with us.
Top goal scorer in European competitions as well as scoring his share domestically.
Hardly missed a game though injury in almost 5years.
Basically led the attack on his own for most of his time with us, in the process taking all kinds of stick from opposition players, fans and press alike.
Never gave us any great issues of the park despite him probably getting a lot of abuse from lowlife while out and about. 
For me, it was quite sad the way it ended for him with us.  For a foreign player, he probably spent too long with us and lost some of his motivation when he didn’t get moved on (it was never any secret that he saw us a stepping stone).  I think also we overlook that his injury in 2022 was the first long term injury he had to come back from and it showed in his performance and him being out of condition. 
 
All in all will look back fondly in his time with us.  Wish him well in the future.

It's weird that he seems determined to drive out the creative, maverick types that could do the unpredictable which on the face of it is exactly what the team seems to be lacking.  He's got rid of Sakala, let Lowry go out on loan and is now looking to get rid of Hagi.  He's spoken about adding what Kent brought to the team but other than Cantwell and possibly Raskin if given the freedom to play I don't see a lot of creativity in the team.

Beale is pretty well all in now and will live or die on his judgement on the players he has brought to the club and their ability to bring success.  Although we definitely needed a clear out in the summer, I think he may have been unwise to make such wholesale changes rather than bring in fewer players and try to get a bit more (or hope to enhance the performance) of some of our better players (Hagi, Sakala, Colak - we all knew these players shortcomings but we also knew what they could give us).  With bringing in so many new players at one time, I don’t think Beale has a clue at the moment how to fit them in and get the best out of them.  He better find out quickly for his own sake (and ours). 

Beale is pretty well all in now and will live or die on his judgement on the players he has brought to the club and their ability to bring success.  Although we definitely needed a clear out in the summer, I think he may have been unwise to make such wholesale changes rather than bring in fewer players and try to get a bit more (or hope to enhance the performance) of some of our better players (Hagi, Sakala, Colak - we all knew these players shortcomings but we also knew what they could give us).  With bringing in so many new players at one time, I don’t think Beale has a clue at the moment how to fit them in and get the best out of them.  He better find out quickly for his own sake (and ours). 

Beale is pretty well all in now and will live or die on his judgement on the players he has brought to the club and their ability to bring success.  Although we definitely needed a clear out in the summer, I think he may have been unwise to make such wholesale changes rather than bring in fewer players and try to get a bit more (or hope to enhance the performance) of some of our better players (Hagi, Sakala, Colak - we all knew these players shortcomings but we also knew what they could give us).  With bringing in so many new players at one time, I don’t think Beale has a clue at the moment how to fit them in and get the best out of them.  He better find out quickly for his own sake (and ours). 

I don't think he's a world beater, but I'm not convinced the alternatives are better. Of course I hope they convince me otherwise, but I'd rather go into this game with Hagi and Sakala than Lammers and Sima. 

In Beale’s interview after the game, he said team were a bit heavy legged because he had been working them hard in the days before the game.  He said the same after the Newcastle game.  Now, I understand the preseason is primarily for getting players match fit but it gets a bit self-defeating to organise games and then tire the players out beforehand. Can maybe understand it before the Newcastle game but surely by now, particularly in our position with so many new players, we should be prioritising players getting to blend with each other and understand their role in the team in match conditions.  Also, while preseason results are largely irrelevant, confidence  is a critical factor in my view and it can’t do much for the confidence of a largely new team to be getting beat convincingly (display wise) in these games.

In Beale’s interview after the game, he said team were a bit heavy legged because he had been working them hard in the days before the game.  He said the same after the Newcastle game.  Now, I understand the preseason is primarily for getting players match fit but it gets a bit self-defeating to organise games and then tire the players out beforehand. Can maybe understand it before the Newcastle game but surely by now, particularly in our position with so many new players, we should be prioritising players getting to blend with each other and understand their role in the team in match conditions.  Also, while preseason results are largely irrelevant, confidence  is a critical factor in my view and it can’t do much for the confidence of a largely new team to be getting beat convincingly (display wise) in these games.

Well, Beale’s talking nonsense then because I was essentially quoting him.  

The boy Rieder they’re linked with looks very good tbh but can’t see him going there thankfully, he’s got EPL and Bundesliga teams interested, the tarriers can boast about money all they want but the fact is there is a ceiling for players who will come to Scotland doesn’t matter what cash they throw at them. 

Having played through most of the summer, I suspect he is more match fit at this stage than the rest of our squad.

Should’ve been Wallace getting that treatment imho watp

We must see more of Lowry 

Lowry has that touch of class.