Comments on: Give our boys a fair crack

By: sglazer

sglazer — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:10:57 +0000

#274 TheTackler: That's made-up logic, without reason. Refer to the medical journals on the subject. It is well documented.

By: sglazer

sglazer — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:05:38 +0000

#274 TheTackler: It doesn't work like that, Tackler.

By: vindicated

vindicated — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:04:47 +0000

Keo

When the Aussie cricket side go to England for an 8 week tour, 5 Test matches and a bunch or One Dayers and warm up games how many matches / points are they behind at the start ??

By: vindicated

vindicated — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:56:32 +0000

Aust and NZ teams visiting Cape Town have to deal with Stellenbosch and having their teams on the piss for a week

so whats the big deal – it all evens out in the end

By: TheTackler

TheTackler — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:51:27 +0000

ALL sides that travel East have to return home travelling West, and ALL sides going West have to return home going East. And ALL sides will play games on each side of their travel. So it balances out equally.

By: Dust

Dust — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:48:32 +0000

272, Yes there is considerable science to this, Mongrel
Your daily sleep rhythm gets disrupted by east-west travel, especially travel East which unfortunately our teams do when they go to Oz and NZ
Its called jet lag because it became a recognised phenomenon only once people started travelling across time zones in jets. Before that your brain could adapt more to the slower forms of travel – one time zone per day is what the brain likes
So travel north south as Keo suggests (crossing at most 2 time zones) to play the 6N countries won’t have this added burden

By: mongrel

mongrel — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:49:15 +0000

if there is any ‘science’ to this time travel stuff then the stormers are the team to consult, they bucked the trend and won on the road. only the sharks performance on the road supports the time travel theory. the rest of the sa teams were krap home and away.

By: sglazer

sglazer — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:31:18 +0000

#270 skopskiet: How can objective, scientific studies be excuses? This doesn't make sense.

By: skopskiet

skopskiet — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:26:20 +0000

Seems as we have become more sophisticated we have in turn become more in tune with our weaknesses, traveling across time zones in years gone by never raised any issues, now that we have measuring tools to determine how this affects or mental, physical and psychological well being it has become a convenient excuse.

Whats the fuss about, we have to play more away games than they do, so perhaps its a little lop sided in terms of its structure, a logistical issue, but to start with sports science institutes and the like demeaning the nature of the competition sounds more like whining and excuse finding to me.

How about we toughen up and lift the bar in terms of our preparation and training, maybe restructure our own internal weakened structures and coaching techniques, once we start winning, sports science won’t have that many gripes to find fault with time zone travel.

Stormers lost their first 3 games at home, one against a team from NZ who had ‘travelled’ across time zones to whip both the SA adversaries, and once at altitude to boot, once Stormers got overseas they started winning, argument falls flat on its face imo.

By: sglazer

sglazer — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:02:09 +0000

#23 tight head: The studies already exist. They're in the medical journals, well known in medical circles.

By: sglazer

sglazer — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:20:57 +0000

#266 TheTackler: ... otherwise, for the victors, victory is hollow. And for the supporters, delusional, a pretense.

By: sglazer

sglazer — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:11:07 +0000

#266 TheTackler: Tackler, sometimes we're blind to our own negativity. I have been more times than I want to remember. The travel schedules are not even. This is fact. Simple arithmetic. There are many scientific studies that show the effects of crossing time-zones on the mind and body. To illustrate the point, this has led to people with mental illnesses being strongly advised not to do it. This shows that there is good reason to have level playing fields in sport competitions taking place across time zones

By: TheTackler

TheTackler — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:00:40 +0000

#262 sglazer: They’re Afrikaners. Is this demeaning? They’re from inland. Is this demeaning? So, what’s possibly demeaning about calling an Afrikanerboys from inland “Afrikanerboys from inland”?

Also, they totally suck at rugby away from SA. Well, if I were one of their number I’d be embarrassed about this too.

So they’d better stop whining and griping about their so-called “travel disadvantage” and just harden up. Rugby’s not for sissies.

By: sglazer

sglazer — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:59:54 +0000

#263 BillTong: Thanks

By: sglazer

sglazer — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:44:48 +0000

#261 TheTackler: "Deal with it crybaby". That's domineering and demeaning. Contracting energies that weaken the mind.

By: BillTong

BillTong — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:43:25 +0000

sglazer – forget it, you’ll never win. Tackler is beyond redemption – move on with your life.

By: sglazer

sglazer — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:41:03 +0000

#261 TheTackler: The Afrikanerboy teams from inland ... . That's bigotry.

By: TheTackler

TheTackler — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:10:46 +0000

#260 sglazer: Bull. It's the truth. Deal with it, crybaby.

By: sglazer

sglazer — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:01:09 +0000

#250 TheTackler: This is bigotry at its worst. Bigotry creates a small mind.

By: sglazer

sglazer — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:56:01 +0000

#257 BillTong: We need to explore it, at least, with the central guiding principle being level playing fields.