📝 George Abbott...signs for season long loan

[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.

[Med Pie]

Potentially, for actual contact, but again, physicality in the sense of movement, running and general physical output is absolutely non-comparable.

I don't agree, decent players run more than really good players who let the ball do the running, only those who have never played at all, will dissent. Players who operate at a good, amateur level which is what I referred to, still have an incredible work rate compared to pub players.

[Med Pie]

I get that us mere mortals only have our own experiences to go off, but the difference between professional sport and amateur sport is really not worth the comparison.

This greatly depends on what level of amateur / pro sport we're talking about.

[LeftPeg_Pie]

I don't agree, decent players run more than really good players who let the ball do the running, only those who have never played at all, will dissent. Players who operate at a good, amateur level which is what I referred to, still have an incredible work rate compared to pub players.

Im not questioning the fact good amateur players have an incredible work rate. I just find it difficult to compare professional football to even a good standard of amateur football, simply because the levels between the professional game itself are so starkly different. So to compare that to the amateur level is difficult.

The difference between L2 and L1 can be small but then there’s a big jump to the Champ and an even bigger one to the PL.

The hardest working amateur player may make the same number of sprints in a game as the hardest working professional player, but it’s probably safe to bet the professional player does those sprints at a higher intensity, over a greater distance and probably doesn’t dip on the physical output too significantly if a sprint comes in minute one or minute 90. The amateur player probably doesn’t match up.

[Shropshire_Pie]

Spurs podcasters keeping an eye on Mad and our excellent loanee. Hope he stays the full season personally.

https://www.tottenhamhotspurnews.com...claim-emerges/

[SwalePie]

Spurs podcasters keeping an eye on Mad and our excellent loanee. Hope he stays the full season personally.

https://www.tottenhamhotspurnews.com...claim-emerges/

Keeping an eye on Mad? They must be masochists.

[1955pie]

Spurs podcasters keeping an eye on Mad and our excellent loanee. Hope he stays the full season personally.

https://www.tottenhamhotspurnews.com...claim-emerges/

Perhaps we should start slagging him off?😊
Terrible miss with that open goal on Saturday.

[ncfcog]

I got as far as “he’s started all three of Notts’ EFL League One games since joining” …

[Elite_Pie]

Article on the BBC website about George by Adam Hassell:

I would not be surprised to see George Abbott go to the very top.

His ability to read the game, pick a pass and generally just know where to be is already above League Two level, and he is firmly one of the first names on the teamsheet now at Notts County.

When he first arrived at Meadow Lane, Abbott was forced to play in a wing-back role and he got his first professional assist from this position when putting a delightful right-wing cross in away at Chesterfield in October.

Credit to him for being versatile and adapting very quickly to a new position in a new team. But, in recent weeks he has been used as a box-to-box midfielder in the middle of the park, and he covers every blade of grass on the pitch twice over.

The only thing missing from his stint in Nottinghamshire so far is a first professional goal, something he hopes is near and something he says himself is getting "closer and closer".

If he can add some goals to his game then he will certainly be an all-round midfielder and one to watch for the future, maybe even in a Tottenham shirt.

Recently, Notts fans have even been saying Abbott is better at the Magpies than Ryan Yates and Jack Grealish were in their respective loans at Meadow Lane.

From the conversations I have had with him, he seems a confident and grounded young man, with a mentality that matches his undoubted ability on the pitch. We are certainly enjoying watching his performances blossom at Notts County.

If only we could have a sell-on fee!

[jacobncfc]

Am I the only one who thinks that is wildly over the top? I like Abbott, he?s a tidy footballer who is decent on the ball and holding his own in League Two, but I wouldn?t say he stands out in anything like the way Yates, Grealish, McGregor (or even Jorge Grant) did.