Ings

[jexykrodic]

Flintoffstone

 

[Markeh]

shite, really shite

step up Divock, I though he should be loaned not so long ago but there's going to be plenty of opportunity for him now

 

[gkmacca]

I'm not sure I agree, macca, TBF. Peters might have tried harder to tailor his delivery to the fact that he was sitting opposite a barely defrosted Neanderthal, but I'm not sure what else he did wrong there. Flintoff - magnificent cricketer in his day - is a thumping great fool and it's bound to be an uphill struggle for anyone to communicate with him in words of more than one syllable, especially if the material covered is the slightest bit demanding.

Probably, but I must admit every time I've read anything by Peters I've found it pop psychology of the worst kind. He undoubtedly has a good effect on some athletes but I can't take him seriously.

 

[the count]

I'm not sure I agree, macca, TBF. Peters might have tried harder to tailor his delivery to the fact that he was sitting opposite a barely defrosted Neanderthal, but I'm not sure what else he did wrong there. Flintoff - magnificent cricketer in his day - is a thumping great fool and it's bound to be an uphill struggle for anyone to communicate with him in words of more than one syllable, especially if the material covered is the slightest bit demanding.

You do know that Neanderthals had bigger brains than modern humans don't you?

 

[Oliver Twist]

That sounds like the class clown determined to ruin another lesson.

Sounds like a lad telling a lad-like story from a lad-like perspective.

 

[Oliver Twist]

Probably, but I must admit every time I've read anything by Peters I've found it pop psychology of the worst kind. He undoubtedly has a good effect on some athletes but I can't take him seriously.

Written down, therapy looks a joke. An obvious one.

 

[Oliver Twist]

I'm not sure I agree, macca, TBF. Peters might have tried harder to tailor his delivery to the fact that he was sitting opposite a barely defrosted Neanderthal, but I'm not sure what else he did wrong there. Flintoff - magnificent cricketer in his day - is a thumping great fool and it's bound to be an uphill struggle for anyone to communicate with him in words of more than one syllable, especially if the material covered is the slightest bit demanding.

Surely good psychologists communicate on all sorts of levels. However many syllables.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Fuck off, just fuck off.

Our top goal scorer out for the season 🙁

 

[mom]

He's a good player and he'll be missed. His passion and work rate are fantastic. I'm gutted for him, but I'm glad it's not Studge or Benteke that are out. Unless Klopp can reinvent Moreno, I think Gomez will be a bigger miss.

 

[Judge Jules]

Surely good psychologists communicate on all sorts of levels. However many syllables.

Well, yes, but not everyone is amenable to even the most adroit of communicators. I seriously doubt Flintoff is much of a listener at the best of times. On the contrary my guess is he'd be rather proud of not being one, which definitely shows in the quote above.

Incidentally Peters is a psychiatrist rather than a psychologist. Interestingly I've known at least one psychologist, quite a senior one in the field of education, who wasn't that impressed with psychiatry for anything other than clinical interventions (i.e.actual mental illness), taking the view that psychiatrists over-medicalise a lot of things and try to reduce them to rules and formulae which are often too rigid to be of that much help.

 

[Hansern]

“I was coming from the centre of the pitch to the left-hand side running full tilt,” Ings says. “I received the ball on the inside of my right foot and as I came inside pressing off my left it got caught in an awkward position. I went and sat down. We had tests on it and it was perfectly fine, the wobble test [used to detect cruciate ruptures] – everything was fine.

“We didn’t have a clue what it was because after that I got up and thought I could go and train again. We walked in because we didn’t want to risk it. We were doing tests again and there was nothing there. The only thing worrying me is that there was a click … I have had surgery on this knee before but it was an injury that was completely different – that was a repair of my meniscus.

“This is something completely different. The MRI showed it was an isolated ACL partial rupture. The only positive thing is that everything around it, the meniscus, all the other ligaments are fine so hopefully that will shorten the timescale when I return.”