Jan 13 2012 By Paul Warburton NEW boss Mark Hughes pulled no punches at his first QPR training session this week â and admitted there were Premier League stars gasping for breath by the end. The shock to the system came a day after the former Fulham manager introduced himself and backroom staff to the squad, and promised more of the same over the coming months. Sparky made sure the training tempo was always high with the Whites, and reckoned it was one of the reasons he had them firing on all four throughout his only season at Craven Cottage in 2010-11 â and promised exactly the same at Loftus Road. âItâs not about the duration, itâs about the intensity of training,â he explained. âWhat youâre looking for out of players is quality, and itâs fair to say there were quite a few blowing hard by the end of the session.â Hughes is tasked with keeping Rangers in the Premier League â and harked back to his first club job at Blackburn Rovers in 2004 when he was asked to do much the same. That time, the fledgling Premier League manager had from September onwards to ensure survival for one of the top flightâs lesser lights â but Hughes insists the experience will stand him in good stead over four nerve-wracking months. He added: âThereâs not as much time here (as there was at Blackburn), but of course that experience is going to be useful. Similar situations are sure to arise and Iâll use what happened then to benefit QPR now.â Sparky promised âconsistencyâ in the way he deals with players â and admits heâs already started one-to-one interviews to hammer home the message. âI have high expectations and hope the players do as well, and will strive to making sure the club progresses.â http://www.ealinggazette.co.uk/sport/qpr-ealing/2012/01/13/qpr-players-suffer-under-sparky-82029-30114761/? Love it, love it, love it, love it, love it, love it, love it, love it, love it
I wonder if word has wafted over the seas to the ear of Adel. He'll want to stay away as long as possible. Not only will he have to work harder than he has ever done in his life, but his team-mates will have 4 weeks start on him!
Prefer to be admiring him on every single thread. He looked in a lot better shape through the Christmas period when I thought he played well. But often when he's gone off to join the Moroccon squad, stories about him leaving us and his waistline seem to increase proportionally!
Stop being grumpy Col. I think the Taff's determination to up fitness and stamina levels is a good thing. Crack the whip. Very interested to see what our Newcastle starting line up will be
Oh ye of little faith. I reckon Hughes will shake things up, this is a match 'he' can't lose. The players will have been told no-one is safe and to play for their positions. He might drop a couple deliberately and bring in the likes of Andrade. Either way there's a massive underdog situation here that he might be able to play upon.
Good get the bastards working! Even Taarabt when he gets back They are playing for QPR and it should never be easy
There seem to be few signings going on anywhere at the moment. I mean, the transfer market hasn't exactly got the rush and commotion of the first day of Selfridge's sale, has it? There's gonna be an awful lot of business done in the last week of Jan, I predict....
Adel won't care. He wants to leave. He'll just do his thing, his way, and he'll just leave at the end of season.
Yeah, and they'll be too exhausted to play, being run out so hard. It takes at least a month for a body to adjust to such intensity before it levels out and the body gets used to it. You try it yourself - go out and run as hard as you have never done before in the next week, every other day for 5 days and see how you feel the following week - without going to the pub - and tell me if that's a good thing to institute right before some very important matches. Hughes is an idiot.
Yappy they're professional footballers. The intensity that Hughes will get them training in will be of a match tempo, therefore what they're used to in matches. The reason a manager trains at a high tempo similar to that of a match is so when the match day comes it will seem easier for the players and they'll find an extra gear. You talk out of your arse so often it's actually embarrassing.
That's not what it says in the report. It says: Ever felt a shock to the system like that when you had to run hard than ever before and were gasping for breath that it indeed was a shock to the system? And then had to repeat it a couple of days later, before you were used to it, to do the same thing at match intensity? Your legs will buckle, my friend.
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Oh no its not what the report says! I forgot that every report tells the whole truth! You're almost implicating that during warnock there was no training at all. You couldn't be more stupid you silly twat.
