Rammy Blue
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not seen posted, interesting bit I have underlined.....
"Thursday and Friday off but a good session today to shake of the wednesday defeat. No Ireland as expected along with Bridge,Petrov and Lescott. Bridge did come out later with a physio but for very light work. The plan is for Bridge and Petrov to stup up training outside next week. The surprise today was no Tevez but I was assured he was ok and just working inside today on some specific things.
Before they came out I watched the cones/poles etc being set up for some of the fitness routines and they seemed to be overlapping with where the keepers worked. A few words between Massimo the keper coach and the guy setting them looked like it might be interesting but all was fine which was good as it was very near to the fencing and thus nice for the few watching fans. Usual keep ball circles and warm up routines/ jogging followed by a competitive 10 a side team game of keep ball.The numbers were made up today with 5 reserves namely Nimley,Cunningham,Mak,Boyata and Ibrahim.
Richards tweaked something in this session and was out for a little while and after getting involved again eventually called it a day. Serious enough to stop training but hopefully nothing to keep him out on Monday.I watched the keepers a little closer today and they were being worked hard by the coach. One little session involved 2 keepers firing balls from 5 yards at whoever was in goal and with no sympathy involved in letting them recover. All about agility and recovery speed and it made me tired just watching. One ball came over the fence and I noticed it was a smaller ball than regulation and incredibly smooth and slippery. Massimo the coach said it was all about making it harder to keep out but then when they get back to the normal size that feels easier.
The final work out routine brought the players very close to the watchers and thus we could hear almost everything that was said.Not that we needed to be close when Bellers let rip on one occasion when he had a go at a player he thought wasn't putting it in. Classic Bellers.This part was done with the group splitting into 2 so Mancini could take a team away for what looked like some attacking and tactical work.The first team he took for this was an interesting 10 players. I can say no more.
A 10 a side game followed which was pretty full on and Robbie Mak was welcomed by being Zabbad ( sounds like a word to me!)Absolutely clattered to show the intensity of the session was good. NDJ tried something similar but whoever it was got out of the way. Good to see the main strikers scoring a few. RSC missing one good chance but scoring with a top header but overall nothing too much to report on from it.
It all ended with some shooting practice with a host of players staying back for more. The winner of this session overall was Stu Taylor who was excellent but the best finisher was Adebayor with least successful being Greg Cunningham."
"Thursday and Friday off but a good session today to shake of the wednesday defeat. No Ireland as expected along with Bridge,Petrov and Lescott. Bridge did come out later with a physio but for very light work. The plan is for Bridge and Petrov to stup up training outside next week. The surprise today was no Tevez but I was assured he was ok and just working inside today on some specific things.
Before they came out I watched the cones/poles etc being set up for some of the fitness routines and they seemed to be overlapping with where the keepers worked. A few words between Massimo the keper coach and the guy setting them looked like it might be interesting but all was fine which was good as it was very near to the fencing and thus nice for the few watching fans. Usual keep ball circles and warm up routines/ jogging followed by a competitive 10 a side team game of keep ball.The numbers were made up today with 5 reserves namely Nimley,Cunningham,Mak,Boyata and Ibrahim.
Richards tweaked something in this session and was out for a little while and after getting involved again eventually called it a day. Serious enough to stop training but hopefully nothing to keep him out on Monday.I watched the keepers a little closer today and they were being worked hard by the coach. One little session involved 2 keepers firing balls from 5 yards at whoever was in goal and with no sympathy involved in letting them recover. All about agility and recovery speed and it made me tired just watching. One ball came over the fence and I noticed it was a smaller ball than regulation and incredibly smooth and slippery. Massimo the coach said it was all about making it harder to keep out but then when they get back to the normal size that feels easier.
The final work out routine brought the players very close to the watchers and thus we could hear almost everything that was said.Not that we needed to be close when Bellers let rip on one occasion when he had a go at a player he thought wasn't putting it in. Classic Bellers.This part was done with the group splitting into 2 so Mancini could take a team away for what looked like some attacking and tactical work.The first team he took for this was an interesting 10 players. I can say no more.
A 10 a side game followed which was pretty full on and Robbie Mak was welcomed by being Zabbad ( sounds like a word to me!)Absolutely clattered to show the intensity of the session was good. NDJ tried something similar but whoever it was got out of the way. Good to see the main strikers scoring a few. RSC missing one good chance but scoring with a top header but overall nothing too much to report on from it.
It all ended with some shooting practice with a host of players staying back for more. The winner of this session overall was Stu Taylor who was excellent but the best finisher was Adebayor with least successful being Greg Cunningham."