Crammed dressing rooms can absolutely squeeze the life out of football squads.
I've been in one and let me tell you, it was chaos.
When I first signed for Hearts in the winter window of 2010 there were SIXTY THREE players in the squad. Enough to fill three dressing rooms.
We were split into first-team regulars, the reserves and then the bomb squad.
Those poor guys in the third category were so far out of things they never trained with us and were just told to go and run round the woods at Riccarton every day.
I was totally taken aback when I walked in and saw the number of players - I'd been used to less than a third of that at Ayr United.
I kid you not, it was so bad the kit man took me aside on that first day and got one of the foreign lads - David Witteveen - to empty his locker for me.
I was stood there with my wash bag and boots having just arrived from Ayr and had to stand next to Witteveen while his name was peeled off the locker door and replaced with mine.
The poor guy then had to go and sit with the bomb squad who had no lockers and just hung their kit on pegs.
Obviously he was raging. Straight away he hated me!
I'd come from an Ayr dressing room with a third of the number of players in it but where everyone was tight-knit as a result.
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