Wolves have appointed their first full-time sports scientist to work with the club.
John Iga, 28, has been appointed chiefly to work with the club’s academy but will also have an input at first team level, under the guidance of fitness coach Tony Daley.
Iga, who has a degree in sports science and PhD in exercise physiology from Liverpool John Moores University, is due to start work in mid-July.
He said: “Sports science is a very broad term but my work involves all aspects of psychology, bio-mechanics and the physiological aspect.”
“I’ll be working closely with academy manager Kevin Thelwell and liaising with Tony, with the aim of getting all the players performing at their optimum.
“Football has changed so much in recent years that everything has to be in place, in order to allow players to compete at such high standards.
“It’s all about the right sort of preparation and recovery strategies, to ensure the players are as physically fit as possible.”
Iga, who will be relocating from Cheltenham, has previously worked at several Premier League and Championship clubs on a consultancy basis.
He came to Thelwell’s attention while he was working at Preston.
He said: “John has got a fantastic pedigree and I’m delighted to have him on board.”
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Thats all good and well but can he play at the back, i mean we really needed a sports scientist that what we have been missing all these years NOT!!!!!!!
“Getting all the players performing at their optimum” now there’s a challenge - what’s he going to do, use electric shock treatment or threaten to take away their nice cars!
Tony Daley - fitness coach.
It still makes me laugh.
cant wait until your new signing meets up with Mad MM and the great coaches you hae. You have really done well with Morgans millions getting this guy, promotion next year.
‘Under the guidance of fitness coach Tony Daley.’
Erm…Oooer…!
how about a centre half
Great move!
If we can get a whole season out of Kightly, Murray… well, the entire team, it’s really gonna help us in the quest for a place in the PL!
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i’m changing the subject alot but i always thought the wolves board made a masive error in sacking dave jones and not sacking glen twoddle, giving mick the job and not ince who now looks like becoming the blackburn manager i think they have again showen they did not have a clue
It seems Wolves have greater success in obtaining back-room personnel than they do with players, so what is the problem?
Are the terms are not good enough or are the players we want not committed enough to want to ‘earn’ their money? Still keep looking McCarthy, someone will be interested soon when all the best players have been signed up by other clubs!
Great another one in…. now when are we going to sign some players!!!
its not about the right preperation its all about putting a shift in
Steve Morgan’s appointments of Kevin Thelwell and John Iga bring hope of a bright new future for Wolves.
They are a refreshing change from the hangovers from the Hayward era: the doubts and controversy concerning Mick McCarthy, and Jez Moxey’s seeming inability to deliver the players for an a.p. winning side. Rightly or wrongly, the Moxey-McCarthy image seemed to paint Wolves as belonging to a past era where the players had a beer and a fag after the game, and the manager and coaches before it.
When Gareth Southgate became manager of ‘Boro and Glenn Roeder manager of Newcastle in 2006, they didn’t have the EUFA Pro coaching licence. Even McCarthy has only got his since he joined Wolves. But Thelwell was teaching, yes teaching, the EUFA ‘A’ and Pro licence courses for the Welsh FA from the age of 27 to 31. At 32, in 2006, when he was appointed at Derby County, he became the youngest academy director in the country. At 34 he has become Wolves’ academy director. This is a brilliant and exciting appointment. Thank you, Mr Morgan.
John Iga too appear to be a top-class man. Above, Thelwell says of Iga, “John has got a fantastic pedigree and I’m delighted to have him on board.” Having a top-class sport scientist on Wolves’ staff is just what the club needs.
These two appointments show that Morgan has every intention of propelling Wolves into the 21st century.
13-im in agreeement when Alladyce went over to America to learn about sports science decades ago he was ridiculed the same, look what it did for Bolton,Also Alex Ferguson recently commented how the biggest change and improvement in football was the science side of the game, if its good enough for Man utd and Alex Ferguson then that will sit fine with me.How many games last season did wolves appear to be flat and run out of energy,maybe they were over trained or the diet was wrong, i run for a running club and the advancement in athlete trying at the highest level is mind boggling.
Lee: Its coz he didnt want to pay that mug off. So when he resigned he dident get a penny
14 Alex Ferguson and big Sam are Prem Managers
Mad MM is and always will be a Failure.
Paul Ince not good enough for you and Jez but looks like Blackburn will make him there manager.
You Idiots will be saying the same things next year, when you finish out of the play offs and MM has spent all of the money.
Baggy 1 dont understand that arguemnt, its the players that the sience will effect,the managers dont cross the white line.
9 lee.
Dave Jones was sacked because, following relegation from the Prem, he spent his entire transfer budget on Olofinjana and Seol instead of replacing the likes of Rae, Cameron, Butler, Irwin, Kennedy, Sturridge, Blake, Newton etc… who all left that summer. We subsequently finished up in the bottom 3 by October playing some awful football and the board had no option but to get rid of him - Hoddle (don’t get me wrong - I can’t stand the guy!) managed to steer us away from the relegation zone to a finish just outside the playoffs and credit must be given for that. His resignation meant we didn’t have pay him off - sacking him would have meant lining his pockets for failing to get us up in 2005/6. Moxey and the rest of the board probably got this one right (although they should never have given him the job to start with in my opinion!)
Baggy 1 - I don’t think that your lot should be commenting on things related to our Academy as it has been shown that you have not produced a decent player from your youth set up for donkey’s ages.
as he cured anybody yet aye boing boing
19,lonewilf,and how many have you produced,we dont need to produce any, we just buy them off feeder clubs like yours aye boing boing
19 And what good has it done you,
you are still in the same league, have a crap manager and Coaches, a owner who does not want to spend, and uncle Jez our mate. Please remember we our a Prem team, you are CCC, and a feeder club, that is what you are live with it. Please remember some teams build for promotion like us, some talk of promotion you.
22. Baggy 1
Hope you find lots of things to have a laugh about on our pages between now and the start of the season.
After the season starts I think that us Wolves fans will have plenty to laugh about every single week when Fulham’s feeder club set the Premiership on fire - NOT!
Enjoy!
with some of the comments on here i think the shrink should start looking at the fans aye boing boing
23,wilf,dont worry mate we shall enjoy,aye boing boing