Also we were the fittest team in League 1 last season, and if we carry that into the Championship I can't see why we won't be the fittest team in that too before long. Not many teams have 6 or 7 players that can run about for 100 minutes without cramping up, week in week out, but we hardly ever saw Ramsay, Jones, Gillesphey, Edwards, Coventry, Docherty or Godden have to go down/off because they were knackered
No. Jonesy got Mannion or AMB to do that for us! 😉
Hopefully a benefit of our season ending 3 weeks after most teams is that our summer fitness ‘debt’ will be lower and therefore recoverable in a shorter period.
Gone from losing sleep over signings and rumours to now panicking about whether the lads can actually run for 90 minutes — football really is the gift that keeps on giving, lol.
I was once told by an RAF physical trainer that it takes a month to get a man fit. I know our season finished late, and today and tomorrow will be punishingly and maybe dangerously hot, but reporting back next Monday only gives us five weeks to get sorted before the first game. We rely on being super fit compared with other teams, I hope five weeks is long enough for us to be ready.
A good friend of mine was pro for many years. Side note but having played with him for a long time at youth level I never got the slightest inkling he'd make it, but he did. Right place at the right time it seemed.
Anyway, he said that the off season, whilst relaxing is still very much work time. He would need to make sure his holidays always centered around somewhere with a good gym setup and would spend at least 90 minutes each morning either jogging or in the gym before settling down with a book for the day.
He would also have to submit data to the club each day to prove what he was doing.
If he showed up for pre season and his first few sessions were no where near where they expected to be, he'd be in a lot of bother. Same with his weight and body fat %s. He never really stopped working to be fair to him
Reminds me of " reading Gary Nelson's Left Foot Forward"
I was once told by an RAF physical trainer that it takes a month to get a man fit. I know our season finished late, and today and tomorrow will be punishingly and maybe dangerously hot, but reporting back next Monday only gives us five weeks to get sorted before the first game. We rely on being super fit compared with other teams, I hope five weeks is long enough for us to be ready.
The players will have been monitored and kept themselves in good shape over the break. It’s really not like the seventies when players boozed and smoked fags. Yes their overall fitness levels will have dropped a bit but not to the extent where five weeks of pre season won’t cut it.
Also i looked back at when they started last season (28 June with the Dartford friendly on 6 July) so they trained and played football for 11 months through to 25 May.
They're not going to lose that much fitness with just 5 weeks off.
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Spoke with him yesterday, he's just reposting what he sees on other bullshit pages.
They're not going to lose that much fitness with just 5 weeks off.