Lead Performance Analyst - Mason Cook

Quoted from LH

There can’t be many people about with two professions as their first and surname.

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

Allegedly. Although, I was going to say the same thing as you. You’ve obviously got better access to solicitors though (after that incident in Freshney Place with the worm riddled cod).

There are an awful lot of doping incidents in cycling where Mr Brailsford just happens to be linked or on the scene (Freeman, Millar, triamcinolone etc). Obviously, Brailsford is English so I’m not suggesting he was involved in any systematic doping. Gerrard, Beckham, Owen, Sterling and Kane have never dived either.

Quoted from diehardmariner

I'm not defending the use of doping, far from it.  But I suspect that if doping was/is going then it would be case, much like in the late 90's, it's a case that everyone was at it but certain teams/individuals are better at it and hiding it...

Back to the incremental gains in cycling, there was a brief series on Team Sky a few years back - oddly enough it was on one of the Sky channels.  Brailsford talked about the lengths they went to in order to achieve those incremental gains, the 1%'s as he talked about.  Riders would have their own mattresses ferried around the world, with staff going ahead of the team to the pre-booked hotels to ensure their mattresses were used, helping to get better sleep.  All rooms were decontaminated of any potential bugs too.

These are just a few of many, many examples of the small things.  Individually they make little to no impact, but collectively the small incremental gains all add up.

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

Allegedly. Although, I was going to say the same thing as you. You’ve obviously got better access to solicitors though (after that incident in Freshney Place with the worm riddled cod).

There are an awful lot of doping incidents in cycling where Mr Brailsford just happens to be linked or on the scene (Freeman, Millar, triamcinolone etc). Obviously, Brailsford is English so I’m not suggesting he was involved in any systematic doping. Gerrard, Beckham, Owen, Sterling and Kane have never dived either.

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

And look how things turned out for Robert Millar!

(or did you mean David Miller?)

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

Good spot flour.

However, I was actually referring to World Cup corner flag grinder Roger Milla - this being a football forum of course. Brailsford had allegedly fed the Cameroonian legend a mashed up paste of oysters, self-raising flour and viagra in a pre-Italia ‘90 boot camp in Tuscany.

Milla referred to it as marginal grains in his autobiography.

Quoted from Rick12

Iam a big fan of sports science. Other sports use it as well and as a consequence athletic  performances have improved over the years . Attention to detail/desire to constantly improve  makes a difference where it can be fine margins between winning and losing.

Quoted from diehardmariner

I'm not defending the use of doping, far from it.  But I suspect that if doping was/is going on then it would be case, much like in the late 90's, that everyone was at it but certain teams/individuals are better at it and hiding it...

Back to the incremental gains in cycling, there was a brief series on Team Sky a few years back - oddly enough it was on one of the Sky channels.  Brailsford talked about the lengths they went to in order to achieve those incremental gains, the 1%'s as he talked about.  Riders would have their own mattresses ferried around the world, with staff going ahead of the team to the pre-booked hotels to ensure their mattresses were used, helping to get better sleep.  All rooms were decontaminated of any potential bugs too.

These are just a few of many, many examples of the small things.  Individually they make little to no impact, but collectively the small incremental gains all add up.