BB, I'm all for a bit of bonding at training and a fuckaboot in the dressing-room; however - it's still their workplace and even when the drills get monotonous and boring, it's still just the same for every one of us who has to go through the routine day-after-day, year-after-year.
Passing drills, movement and mobility, shooting drills, one-on-ones, the hard miles to drive you through a long season. Repetition becomes second nature and these are transferable skills to the games themselves. The team looks sluggish at the moment and that starts at Lennoxtown. Can't remember who, but someone posted a pic recently of the players at training and said that they looked a happy enough bunch in each others company. Fuck that..........training should be a miserable moanfest. Any player happy to be at training isn't doing their fucking job properly.
I'm assuming that each player has the basic skillset to pass, header, control and shoot a ball. If that's the case, then they're making a pretty poor show of it during matches.
The best players in the world still train properly. They work on their technique in their own time and at least one session a week is based entirely on shape. The evidence suggests that that definitely isn't happening with our boys at the moment judging by the lack of shape, strategy and gameplan and game management.