Gary Waddock appointed Assistant Manager; Svetoslav Todorov appointed First Team Coach

[Westcliff Shrimper]

Morning all.

Official site states the following:

Temporary Manager: Ricky Duncan
Assistant Managers: Damian Matthew & Kevin Keen
Head of Recruitment: Roger Cross
Goalkeeper Coach: Lee Harrison
Lead Sport Scientist: Stefano Russo
Performance Analyst: Ben Cirne
Kit Manager: Scott Carson
Crowd Doctor: Dr. O Macaulay

Obviously swap out Ricky for Kevin Bond, but is everyone else the same? If so, I'm surprised that KB hasn't had a purge and bring his own people in.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Morning all.

Official site states the following:

Temporary Manager: Ricky Duncan
Assistant Managers: Damian Matthew & Kevin Keen
Head of Recruitment: Roger Cross
Goalkeeper Coach: Lee Harrison
Lead Sport Scientist: Stefano Russo
Performance Analyst: Ben Cirne
Kit Manager: Scott Carson
Crowd Doctor: Dr. O Macaulay

Obviously swap out Ricky for Kevin Bond, but is everyone else the same? If so, I'm surprised that KB hasn't had a purge and bring his own people in.

Damian Matthew has gone as well.

Is Scott Carson the former England keeper?

 

[Chrisb]

Hopefully a new Strength and Conditioning Coach will be recruited - fitness appeared to go downhill last season after Jamie Douglas departed and I think that was a big factor in our problems.

 

[henry18]

Morning all.

Official site states the following:

Temporary Manager: Ricky Duncan
Assistant Managers: Damian Matthew & Kevin Keen
Head of Recruitment: Roger Cross
Goalkeeper Coach: Lee Harrison
Lead Sport Scientist: Stefano Russo
Performance Analyst: Ben Cirne
Kit Manager: Scott Carson
Crowd Doctor: Dr. O Macaulay

Obviously swap out Ricky for Kevin Bond, but is everyone else the same? If so, I'm surprised that KB hasn't had a purge and bring his own people in.

Scott Carson is no longer the kit man either

 

[Mick]

Damian Matthew has gone as well.

Is Scott Carson the former England keeper?

The one who played 30 games for Derby last year? Probably not!!!!

 

[rigsby]

Morning all.

Official site states the following:

Temporary Manager: Ricky Duncan
Assistant Managers: Damian Matthew & Kevin Keen
Head of Recruitment: Roger Cross
Goalkeeper Coach: Lee Harrison
Lead Sport Scientist: Stefano Russo
Performance Analyst: Ben Cirne
Kit Manager: Scott Carson
Crowd Doctor: Dr. O Macaulay

Obviously swap out Ricky for Kevin Bond, but is everyone else the same? If so, I'm surprised that KB hasn't had a purge and bring his own people in.

What bout Harry

 

[Ricey]

We desperately need a decent fitness coach.

 

[Member]

We desperately need a decent fitness coach.

it's more than about having a decent fitness coach, it's about a manager who integrates fitness into everything they organise - training, tactics, pre-season, conditioning etc.

I still stand by my view that our fitness issues were a result of having a depleted squad for pretty much the whole season. You can't train as hard/well with fewer fit players, you can't rest and rotate to manage niggles, and there are fewer players challenging for places so there's less healthy competition in training, in the gym, and out on the pitch.

A full and healthy squad, along with a manager who wants to get us working really hard are the main things we require.

 

[tallboyblue]

Is Ben the physio ?

 

[tallboyblue]

Morning all.

Official site states the following:

Temporary Manager: Ricky Duncan
Assistant Managers: Damian Matthew & Kevin Keen
Head of Recruitment: Roger Cross
Goalkeeper Coach: Lee Harrison
Lead Sport Scientist: Stefano Russo
Performance Analyst: Ben Cirne
Kit Manager: Scott Carson
Crowd Doctor: Dr. O Macaulay

Obviously swap out Ricky for Kevin Bond, but is everyone else the same? If so, I'm surprised that KB hasn't had a purge and bring his own people in.

Keen must be one of his own . Otherwise he would have gone with Powell as well.

 

[Ricey]

it's more than about having a decent fitness coach, it's about a manager who integrates fitness into everything they organise - training, tactics, pre-season, conditioning etc.

I still stand by my view that our fitness issues were a result of having a depleted squad for pretty much the whole season. You can't train as hard/well with fewer fit players, you can't rest and rotate to manage niggles, and there are fewer players challenging for places so there's less healthy competition in training, in the gym, and out on the pitch.

A full and healthy squad, along with a manager who wants to get us working really hard are the main things we require.

That maybe the case but it’s no coincidence that their fitness levels massively dropped when Jamie Douglas left.

 

[Member]

That maybe the case but it’s no coincidence that their fitness levels massively dropped when Jamie Douglas left.

Or it could be coincidence...

 

[Ricey]

Or it could be coincidence...

It could be. Would you say it’s down to Chris Powell then? As we never had fitness problems under Brown.

 

[flangejackrabbit]

I know PB is still not the most popular on here, but I don't think he's ever been accused of having an unfit team anywhere he's been. The fitness coaches are important and the philosophy of the manager is too. Certainly when we had Mark Williams and Jamie Douglas we were a very fit side, but it's hard to tell how much of that is from them and how much from the management.

Edit: I think Mark Williams is now handling the fitness of the national basketball team?

 

[JLM7]

Or it could be coincidence...

I see it as a coincidence too. Many of the long-term injuries we suffered early on were truly freak injuries and not the kind you associated with a lack of fitness.

As you mention, this leads to reduced competition, reduced rotation and all in all makes small injuries into big injuries.

 

[southendkid]

Keen must be one of his own . Otherwise he would have gone with Powell as well.

Alternatively we're skint and can't afford to pay him off.

 

[Floval Flyer]

I know PB is still not the most popular on here, but I don't think he's ever been accused of having an unfit team anywhere he's been. The fitness coaches are important and the philosophy of the manager is too. Certainly when we had Mark Williams and Jamie Douglas we were a very fit side, but it's hard to tell how much of that is from them and how much from the management.

Edit: I think Mark Williams is now handling the fitness of the national basketball team?

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Kevin Bond is not bringing in his own back room staff. He's very happy with Kevin Keen and Lee Harrison.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Kevin Bond is not bringing in his own back room staff. He's very happy with Kevin Keen and Lee Harrison.

Fair enough. If he's happy with them then that's good enough for me.

 

[MK Shrimper]

If he's happy with them then that's good enough for me.

Isn't that a dodgy Dodgy song?