He does come across very well. These stood out....
KJ: Says you always want young and hungry players with a point to prove. Can't do it all with a crop of young players and do need others to come in.
Nice to hear that he and the club recognise we need experience as well as youth & enthusiasm
JM: Says every single player who left on loan had to make difficult decisions about contracts in order to move on.
I wonder if that means players sold/loaned took pay cuts to move on?
KJ: Working the players harder from day one of pre-season. Three sessions a day starting at 7.30am with a run down the canal. Brings honest values to the players realising there are people out and about at that time going to work!
I always knew putting a shift in had some value!
The biggest positive AND negative for me was these comments:
"First class expensive equipment and top class training ground. Says it is his job to transmit all that into points. No point having great training ground and facilities if they are not used. Attention to detail has to be spot on. Sports Science Dept's target this year is to keep 85 per cent of players or above fit for the majority of the games. They put programmes together and Kenny's job is to implement that."
"Felt concentration and discipline in group wasn't necessarily the best and that Sports Science department was perhaps being under-used and needed to be backed up with discipline. Need to turn top class facilities and top class staff into points."
One the one hand, I'm a HUGE believer in incremental improvements adding up to promotion over a season - the nutritionist who gets you one point, the sports psychologist who pre-empts dips in form and keeps your star striker firing and wins you two points, the physios who reduce injury risk by one percent, adding up to a point over a season...I firmly believe these things are the difference between promotion and playoffs or survival and relegation. So it is great Kenny recognises that...
The downside for me is that suggests we have the setup wrong. We should have somebody in charge of all of these areas, a real expert with the authority to implement everything they need to, it shouldn't be down to Kenny to say "what's that expensive looking bit of gym equipment, looks fancy, can someone Google how to use it".
When we've spent so much on certain areas, we should have a consistent expert maintaining and managing and pushing the boundaries of their discipline because it is no good losing all that knowledge and drive when a manager leaves, it should be in place all the time with no dips in standards.
Good parliament though, things are feeling pretty positive. They couldn't have got worse but the start also couldn't have been much better and you can only play what's in front of you. I just hope we don't fold if/when we lose a couple.
Kenny at Fans Parliament
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posted on 11/9/13
posted on 12/9/13
Don't know if he said all the right things DJ......he was fairly quick to dismiss the red trousers.
posted on 12/9/13
He does come across very well. These stood out....
KJ: Says you always want young and hungry players with a point to prove. Can't do it all with a crop of young players and do need others to come in.
Nice to hear that he and the club recognise we need experience as well as youth & enthusiasm
JM: Says every single player who left on loan had to make difficult decisions about contracts in order to move on.
I wonder if that means players sold/loaned took pay cuts to move on?
KJ: Working the players harder from day one of pre-season. Three sessions a day starting at 7.30am with a run down the canal. Brings honest values to the players realising there are people out and about at that time going to work!
I always knew putting a shift in had some value!
posted on 12/9/13
The biggest positive AND negative for me was these comments:
"First class expensive equipment and top class training ground. Says it is his job to transmit all that into points. No point having great training ground and facilities if they are not used. Attention to detail has to be spot on. Sports Science Dept's target this year is to keep 85 per cent of players or above fit for the majority of the games. They put programmes together and Kenny's job is to implement that."
"Felt concentration and discipline in group wasn't necessarily the best and that Sports Science department was perhaps being under-used and needed to be backed up with discipline. Need to turn top class facilities and top class staff into points."
One the one hand, I'm a HUGE believer in incremental improvements adding up to promotion over a season - the nutritionist who gets you one point, the sports psychologist who pre-empts dips in form and keeps your star striker firing and wins you two points, the physios who reduce injury risk by one percent, adding up to a point over a season...I firmly believe these things are the difference between promotion and playoffs or survival and relegation. So it is great Kenny recognises that...
The downside for me is that suggests we have the setup wrong. We should have somebody in charge of all of these areas, a real expert with the authority to implement everything they need to, it shouldn't be down to Kenny to say "what's that expensive looking bit of gym equipment, looks fancy, can someone Google how to use it".
When we've spent so much on certain areas, we should have a consistent expert maintaining and managing and pushing the boundaries of their discipline because it is no good losing all that knowledge and drive when a manager leaves, it should be in place all the time with no dips in standards.
Good parliament though, things are feeling pretty positive. They couldn't have got worse but the start also couldn't have been much better and you can only play what's in front of you. I just hope we don't fold if/when we lose a couple.
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