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Post by wakefieldstokie on Jan 9, 2008 12:53:40 GMT
Looking at Parkin he is obviously over weight, perhaps by a couple of stone. Which leads me to wonder why?
Given that he has had six months to get fit and that his proffession involves training every week and x amount of minutes match football, how much food and ale must you have to consume to still be unfit and carry the excess weight he does?
Which leads to the question: How commited is he to his career and ultimately Stoke City?
Answers on a post card to: I'm big boned, S-O-T ;D
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Post by stayingupfor GermanStokie on Jan 9, 2008 13:04:00 GMT
Exactly... he's not fat...he's big boned  |
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Post by Pugsley on Jan 9, 2008 13:13:40 GMT
He is an embarrassment to the club and to himself as a professional footballer. It is pretty obvious that Pulis is either incapable of getting him fit or he can't be arsed trying. Tend to think it is the latter.
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Post by PONTAFCE on Jan 9, 2008 13:29:02 GMT
He's got more chins than a chineese phonebook  |
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Post by Top Stopper on Jan 9, 2008 20:01:33 GMT
Bollox, the lads looking great!  |
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Post by northantsash on Jan 9, 2008 22:23:44 GMT
i can't understand it myself. he has been here six months, nor major injuries this season and he is still a good two stone overweight. surely it would be better if he shed a few pounds and even bulked up with muscle if he wants to stay large.
one thing i know is that he may have talent i don't possess to play professional football, but im probably more match fit than him.
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Post by Trouserdog on Jan 9, 2008 22:28:54 GMT
I've just done a sum on my little professor, and it reckons that to stay at the weight that parkin does, training for two hours a day, then he must eat at least a lorry full of cream cheese.
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Post by Olgrligm on Jan 9, 2008 22:43:15 GMT
What's that in penny sweets?
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jan 9, 2008 22:51:32 GMT
I prefer to drink cream cheese, goes down easier and you don't spend as many calories. I'm his personal trainer, can you tell? |
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Post by Trouserdog on Jan 9, 2008 22:57:56 GMT
Sorry, my little professor only works in cream cheese. You have to get a scientific one to work with other foodstuffs.
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Post by mumf14 on Jan 10, 2008 0:44:45 GMT
It really is shocking and needs addressing.
If the pillock realised how much better he could become as a result of losing 2 stone then he might be arsed to try.
He should be given an ultimatum...Lose the weight or lose your job..
Why the backroom staff have not been able to sort him out is completely baffling.
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 10, 2008 4:02:09 GMT
He had an entire pre season to get fully fit and didn't do so. What was he doing at that time?
He's got some ability no doubt about that but unless he's 100% fit he won't do himself justice. Talk about his best role in the side is irrelevant. A player won't play any role properly when he's so unfit. Apart from a role in the pie shop perhaps.
Perhaps he should just spend all his traning time running.
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Post by stokiecat on Jan 10, 2008 11:42:44 GMT
To quote Mermaidsal on the Parkin Potential thread:
I honestly don't think he's that unfit, the point is he's not a natural athlete. He's a big, heavy man and if he suddenly lost two stone he'd just look ill and wouldn't be much quicker. He's got a great touch, a great instinct for goal but he needs a certain type of service and without it he's average at best. Also like almost all strikers he runs on confidence. So, potential yes but it means working to what he's got, not expecting him to turn into Thierry Henry if he lays off the pies...
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Post by stokiecat on Jan 10, 2008 11:43:47 GMT
btw to turtleton |
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Post by wakefieldstokie on Jan 10, 2008 12:28:01 GMT
To quote Mermaidsal on the Parkin Potential thread: I honestly don't think he's that unfit, the point is he's not a natural athlete. He's a big, heavy man and if he suddenly lost two stone he'd just look ill and wouldn't be much quicker. He's got a great touch, a great instinct for goal but he needs a certain type of service and without it he's average at best. Also like almost all strikers he runs on confidence. So, potential yes but it means working to what he's got, not expecting him to turn into Thierry Henry if he lays off the pies... There are big heavy men and there are overweight men, Parkin is the latter. "he'd look ill "after losing two stone come on he'd look better. |
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 10, 2008 12:46:44 GMT
The idea that he wouldn't benefit from shedding some lard is silly. Until he gets fit he will continue to play intermittently.
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Post by KevinWhimper on Jan 10, 2008 12:52:09 GMT
at the end of the day
he is and always will be a fat bastard
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Post by PotteringThrough on Jan 10, 2008 12:54:23 GMT
It's probably a good job he didn't score the other night otherwise every stokie would have offered him a pint when he went the pub and that certainly isn't going to help his fitness!
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Post by PerCyfilth ....Captains Log on Jan 10, 2008 14:33:04 GMT
Exactly... he's not fat...he's big boned Yeh !with great big lumps of fat hanging off them! ;D (Al murray 2005) |
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Post by mermaidsal on Jan 10, 2008 21:01:55 GMT
I'll stick by what I said... but all the same pmsl at this on the Bristol City site
QUOTE (North Lincs Red @ Jan 9 2008, 4:14 PM)
Anyone hazard a guess to how much Jon Parkin (Stoke) must weigh?
He must live in a cake shop!
I thought it was Phil Jupitus when he came on for Stoke against the other woooooosh team on sunday!
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jan 10, 2008 21:04:26 GMT
Jon Parkin vs Fitness, none can live while the other survives...
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Post by LDE76 on Jan 10, 2008 21:07:48 GMT
;D Boother.
It's like the episode of the Simpsons when Homer is confronted by the robotic Richard Simmonds.
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Post by daverichards on Jan 10, 2008 21:11:56 GMT
Anyone here Mark Brights comment during the commentry about Porkin ?
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