📝 George Abbott...signs for season long loan

[51Magpie]

...to compare amateur football ... to professional football is like comparing apples and dish washers.

That analogy made me laugh! It also reminded me that there's a similar gulf in most sports. Years ago, as a keen amateur cyclist, I could turn out 200 watts for a (not very long) while. Top pros were from a different planet, churning out 600 watts for hour after hour. (Maybe not quite so much without pharmaceutical enhancements, but still with a totally different class of engine.)

[Kent Magpie]

That analogy made me laugh! It also reminded me that there's a similar gulf in most sports. Years ago, as a keen amateur cyclist, I could turn out 200 watts for a (not very long) while. Top pros were from a different planet, churning out 600 watts for hour after hour. (Maybe not quite so much without pharmaceutical enhancements, but still with a totally different class of engine.)

I know what you mean - I was in a road race with some guys from Raleigh Banana, who were at best a 2nd tier pro team. I was hanging on at the back of the peloton chewing on my handle bars - there were 2 Raleigh guys riding next to me having a chat as if they were on a club run. They moved up when they needed to and one of them won easily in the end... I was dropped shortly after I saw them. Just for context - I was in a 3 up Time trial team who finished just 4 or so minutes behind the Raleigh Banana team in a 25 mile time trial later in the season, so we weren't bad, but the difference is huge.