Victor Palsson

[Hibiza]

Is that not the first step to formulae one. Victor and Vettel on the podium. No peeing allowed , champers only.

[hibsbollah]

Icelandic friends in go-karting shock.

[Kaiser_Sauzee]

I don't think the OP is "rubbish" at all. Hibs are on a shocking run of which Palsson has been a major part of so, whilst I have no issue of him going Karting of Fishing or whatever else he wants to do when not polishing off his skills and fitness at our training ground, he should maybe have thought about his audience; the much irked Hibernian support.

It all comes down to common sense.

[steakbake]

A two pager.... on what Pallson said on twitter....

[silverhibee]

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Really think this is a big fuss about nothing.

Dont think Scott Lindsay will agree with you Matty on that one.

[bingo70]

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A two pager.... on what Pallson said on twitter....

it's not about what he said on twitter, it's about questioning the hours the players are training, their commitment to improving and the perception the fans have of the players.

Innocent as it may be i don't see the point in players advertising they finish training so early and can play at go karting while the rest of us that pay their wages are at work, in many cases earning a fraction of what they do.

[jacomo]

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obviously...

But the team are playing absolutely horrendously right now and he still can't get a game?

Does it not typify the attitude of some of the players that on the first day of new management he is away go karting at half 2?

I think this is a fair point.

Yes, his afternoon is his free time but you would have thought a young professional sportsman would be spending it in a more productive fashion.

All the really successful players say the same thing - talent is nothing without practice. They stay behind after training and do the same thing over and over again until it becomes instinctive.

Our lot don't seem to care, either about Hibs or their careers.

[Cabbage East]

Also worth noting that the boy 'tweeted' the other day about how he was disappointed to be left out the team but was concentrating on working hard to get back in it.

I have no problem with the guy.

[bingo70]

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Also worth noting that the boy 'tweeted' the other day about how he was disappointed to be left out the team but was concentrating on working hard to get back in it.

I have no problem with the guy.

Easy to say he's going to concentrate on working hard, if he was finished up for the day and away go karting at half 2 that would suggest to me he's not concentrating very hard on it.

[Dashing Bob S]

Palsson knows how to dress and has a cool name, so for those reasons I'll cut him more slack than I would most.

[matty_f]

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Dont think Scott Lindsay will agree with you Matty on that one.

Why not?

[Sir David Gray]

Football players, like every single human being, deserve to have some leisure time away from their work.

However, I think that when football players have been as rubbish as the Hibs players have been over such an extended period of time, I don't think it's too much to ask that they do a bit of extra work on improving their technique, their fitness and several other things that are going to improve them as players.

To hear about them having time off and going go-karting at 2.30 in the afternoon is a bit disappointing. They are, compared with the standards of the average person, highly paid individuals. I would have thought that most of the first team players at the club will be on between £70,000-£100,000 per year. For that kind of salary, I would expect them to put in a bit of hard graft over and above their basic training sessions.

[Franck Stanton]

Lot of fuss about nothing. Think about it, he was going karting with a friend, who just happens to play for them - who, by the way had also finished "work" by 2.30pm. So it isn't just our low achieving players that only do a half-day shift now is it.

[steakbake]

Okay, maybe it is a bit of a red rag to a bull if a Hibs fan is reading on twitter that a chronically under-performing player spends his time dicking around go-karting.

To be honest, you don't have to look to far to see that many player's twitter feeds are pretty much about: i) dicking around on wii/playstation games and bragging about their scores, ii) organising big nights out - or apologising to folk for not being able to make big nights out because "sadly i've got training the next day", iii) telling random women they were pleased to meet them the other evening, iv) a stream of "inspirational" quotes, v) talking about golf scores, vi) discussing what cake they might bring to training.

Many of our players seem to be little more than overgrown juveniles, going by what they write on twitter!

But still... twitter is twitter.... none of it is real, man!

[cam75]

The lad is playing for a new contract at hibs or new club at although neither looks possible for.him,here's hopeing that Pat can find what's been lost in most of the squad for last 18months?

[Purehibee_MYB]

He's allowed some free time!! and twitter is personal, if you follow him, then you've just gotta take whatever he says, if you don't like it, just unfollow him...

[Hibbyradge]

I'm impressed with the depth of knowledge about athletic prowess and how to achieve it on this message board.

How many hours a day do people think players can train before it becomes detrimental to their performance?

How many days should they be training for?

[bingo70]

I don't think you have to be an expert in athletic prowess to object to hearing about the players having done a days work by 2:30 considering how much their paid and how bad they've been playing.

Even if finishing at that time is doing overtime its still a lot less work that the average fan so why flaunt it that they hardly have to do any work?

I just dinnae get Twitter and why players have to give out this info, I think on occasions like this fans are better off ignorant as to how a football player really spends their day

[superfurryhibby]

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I'm impressed with the depth of knowledge about athletic prowess and how to achieve it on this message board.

How many hours a day do people think players can train before it becomes detrimental to their performance?

How many days should they be training for?

They should be as fit as they need to be for the job. Theer is probably an optimum level in terms of how long they train and how it's structured over the course of a working week.

In terms of skills and practising them, maybe they could try working on and mastering the basics, like passing a ball ten yards or using the "weaker" foot when required. If they could achieve that then people wouldn't grudge them their early finishes. If I were Victor, I would be dedicating some time to trying to get these aspects of my game a wee bit more polished.

[HibsMax]

Just because a guy tweets that he is doing something not work-related doesn't mean that he's not working hard on his game. If he was tweeting every hour of every day then that would be a concern I think. This seems like nothing at all.

[Hamish]

QUOTE=eric.hibsfan;3011010]Lot of fuss about nothing. Think about it, he was going karting with a friend, who just happens to play for them - who, by the way had also finished "work" by 2.30pm. So it isn't just our low achieving players that only do a half-day shift now is it.[/QUOTE]

surely better doing this than sitting in a pub or the bookies?

[HibsMax]

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They should be as fit as they need to be for the job. Theer is probably an optimum level in terms of how long they train and how it's structured over the course of a working week.

In terms of skills and practising them, maybe they could try working on and mastering the basics, like passing a ball ten yards or using the "weaker" foot when required. If they could achieve that then people wouldn't grudge them their early finishes. If I were Victor, I would be dedicating some time to trying to get these aspects of my game a wee bit more polished.

Maybe he does?

[The_Todd]

I won't be happy until the Hibs players are forced to live in the Big Brother house for an entire season so I can monitor how they spend every single minute of their free time and then we can vote off a memeber of the squad every week based on how much (or how little) overtime they've put in.

That'll teach them.

On a serious note, if the club is lax on training then that's the club's problem, not an individual players problem. Who knows, maybe he does put in all the hours under the sun most days but Monday was a one-off he'd arranged with his pal in advance?

[Bayern Bru]

I'd rather he was go-karting with a mate than getting pissed in a club. Shock horror that he should be spending time with a countryman. After all, it's totally out of the question that as a 19yo laddie, he hasn't settled very well in Edinburgh and that's one of the reasons for his attitude problem, eh?

Personally I'm sick of the abuse Palsson gets on here whilst other players are near hero-worshipped for not much more. Yes, he's not perfect. Yes, that nightclub incident wasn't great. And yes, he doesn't always seem to give 100%.

But some folk seem to go out of their way to try and run certain players into the ground over nothing situations.

The majority of us know nothing about his private life, so let's stop with the speculation eh? Especially over nothing.

[jdships]

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Really think this is a big fuss about nothing.

[Franck Le God]

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I'd rather he was go-karting with a mate than getting pissed in a club. Shock horror that he should be spending time with a countryman. After all, it's totally out of the question that as a 19yo laddie, he hasn't settled very well in Edinburgh and that's one of the reasons for his attitude problem, eh?

Personally I'm sick of the abuse Palsson gets on here whilst other players are near hero-worshipped for not much more. Yes, he's not perfect. Yes, that nightclub incident wasn't great. And yes, he doesn't always seem to give 100%.

But some folk seem to go out of their way to try and run certain players into the ground over nothing situations.

The majority of us know nothing about his private life, so let's stop with the speculation eh? Especially over nothing.

Nothing actually happened at the nightclub though, this was confirmed at the AGM as far as I know.

[greenlex]

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Nothing actually happened at the nightclub though, this was confirmed at the AGM as far as I know.

No something happened alright just that it was greatly exaggerated.

[Winston Ingram]

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New member at hibs.net so go easy on me!

Noticed on twitter that Victor Palsson was and I quote... " on way to teach @EggertJonsson4 how to drive a go-kart"...I wrote back saying "another hard day at the office then?"...this was at about 2.30 on a monday afternoon.

Anyone else think that he was good in his first few games for the club and has done absolutely nothing since?

Perhaps if he was in the gym for an hour or two instead or going round a go-kart track with his mates from our city rivals then a team would be in a lot better shape than it is. Hope the new boss gets wasters like him into shape and help them realise that people spend their hard earned cash to watch them every week.

:pfgwa

FFS

Someone goes go karting on a day off so they are a waster? How do you know he hadn't already spent a couple of hours of his own time in the gym already that day?

[calumb]

I thought it was reported on here that palsson was golfing yesterday.
Not much time for football if we get a round of golf and a bit of karting done in a day.

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