Mick Jones will be producing a blog throughout the coming Premier League season. If you have any questions for our Assistant Manager, e-mail [email protected] In this, his first entry, Jones reveals how the Club are preparing for the return of the players⦠Our pre-season campaign gets underway this Thursday. Preparations are going well but we have done this many times. It's a well-worn plan that has worked very well over the years. Neil Warnock will be very heavily involved. We won't see him away from any of the training sessions. He will be there from the first minute to the last. He likes to be really involved in it all. The manager's training plan hasn't changed too much over the past 20 years, ever since I was first introduced to it. It has worked for us throughout that time, and we always feel that come the first game of the season we are fitter than, or as fit as, most teams. I will be overseeing it, but Carl Serrant (our Strength & Conditioning Coach) will have a massive say in what goes on, particularly over the next ten days when it is all physical. It's a lot of hard work. Certainly the first two days will be very comprehensive, and then they will have a break over the weekend. The five days next week will be really hard going for them. The players will be monitored every day and the staff will hold regular meetings. If we feel we have over-done it or under-done it, we will put it right for the following day. Although not much has changed over the years of doing pre-seasons, there are more facilities available to us in terms of science and sports medicine, and it would be stupid to ignore them. It is important to keep an open mind in terms of progress within football, but the basics are still the same. Pre-season has to be well structured. We've always said that if you could give a player a tablet and it would have them as fit as could be for the start of the season, they would all take it. But it doesn't work like that and it requires a lot of effort from the players. I am a big believer in targeting your points and where you are going to get them. When we were in the Premier League with Sheffield United we beat Tottenham and Arsenal, and we didn't target those points. In the end, we got relegated on one goal. That experience will set us in good stead for this season. It is going to be a tough challenge but we are more than ready for it. http://www.qpr.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~2386743,00.html
Tomorrow morning he'll log on and find 2,000 emails, all with the title "What the Fs going on then Mick?".
[email protected] is clearly not Mick Jones's email address! You could try [email protected] and see what happens. I may give [email protected] a go myself!
Too true North. Rarely go on there. All party-line and ignoring the real issues for the fans who keep the club in business. Only thing it's good for is the rubber stamp.
BrixtonR, I've supported the hoops for 40 odd years, don't judge my R's cos of those two prats running the club at the moment!!! I think you need to get a grip pal! big time
Sorry to blow your ears out like that Eddie old son. It's 44 years since I attended my first Rangers game and don't need to read propaganda to give me a grip. The Rs have always been and will always be my main club. However, the fact is the Goons call the tune at QPR atm and what comes out of there is edited by them. Note the distinct absence of any messages coming from the minority shareholders, the one sided nature of the official version of Amit's departure and the recent resignations of the secretary and other members of the OSC... Need I say more? As I said, I look at it now and again for rubber stamp purposes only.
At the moment, the offish is about as much use to find out about what's going on at QPR, as The Burmese Times or The North Korean Echo are to learn about world events...
