Fed up with all jibes including you raj , Where we're all these concerned so call friends when the chips were down so up yours ! 

Had enough no more posts from me 

What do you rate Marcus's chances of a 3rd singles title ? 

What's the full SP on MW next opponent ? 

freerider wrote:

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if you're worried about what people say about his fitness on a public forum how on earth are you going to manage when and if the press comment upon it (assuming he makes his wimbledon target without further fitness conditioning).

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 For the most part I've ignored all talk about Marcus's shape.  We could start slating Dan Cox for being a short arsse - lack of inches is as just as much of a problem.  

Whilst many people who post here may have little respect Lance Armstrong, I still hold him in high esteem. He did what it took to get to the top of a very dirty sport.  He would still have been a champion if all competitors were drug free.  As a youngster and a very young man, Lance was a triathlete and a great swimmer.  This gave him a well muscled torso and big shoulders.  Hauling this muscle up steep  mountains was not going to help, so he lost it by controlling his diet and not swimming.   This must have been hard, but he strived to be the best he could possibly be.  Marcus has the physique of a rugby forward.  This is not unhealthy or unusual.  There won't be many guys on tour who can bench press as much as Marcus.  The powerful upper body is going to slow him down.  Like Lance, he needs to change his body shape. Or, like Lance he needs to change his sport.....

Steve

indiana wrote:

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Well left with as much class and logical thought as he showed through most of his stay.

He just didn't get it.

As RJA ( not "raj" ) said, we are enthusiastic supporters of British tennis players including Marcus and have enthusiastically talked about all his successes this year. To say, just because we are not though uncritical cheerleaders about players, and in particular his boy, that the English ( and Scottish ) hate winners is absurd.

A1 is the one who has put huge focus on Marcus in this forum. It is a bit naive to then think that we are then just going to ignore the elephant ( maybe unfortunate terminology in this case ) in the room. Though as I and one or two others had suggested, that particular angle had probably run its course for now.

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 "Elephant in the room" has to be why favourite comment of the week. Genius.

Not sure what Mr Lewis was attempting to achieve by "hijacking" the forum for a few days (I don't mean that in a bad way BTW), but his passion and commitment to GB tennis in general and Marcus specifically cannot be doubted. Single-mindedness, drive, passion and an unflinching belief that you are always right aren't always compatible with open discussion (very few successful start-ups are what I would call democracies), so there was always likely to be a few fireworks.

I like what you are doing, Mr Lewis, but not necessarily the way you go about it. But glad you are out there, for sure!