Time to map out a plan for Villa's future
- Says blogger Matthew Turvey
Summer of work for Saddlers
Wednesday 27th May 2009, 10:17AM BST.
Walsall manager Chris Hutchings is looking for improvement and has told his players ‘no pain, no gain.’
The Saddlers returned to maintenance training last week, as Hutchings bids to keep their fitness at its peak.
The squad won’t return to full-time training until July 2, but the boss wants them to know exactly what to expect over the summer.
He said: “The players know what’s required of them now.
“It will be hard, make no mistake about that, there is still a lot of work to be done and, if they think they are resting on their laurels, then that’s not going to be good enough.
“We’ve got to look to improve, every one of us, the staff as well as the players.”
The ex-Wigan boss, who arrived with assistant Martin O’Connor in January, insists they are still some way off where he wants his team to be.
He said: “From where we were when we came in I think we’ve progressed. We’re getting closer to where we want to get to but there’s still a lot of work to be done.”
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Anyone could have made these comments. They are worthless pieces of meaningless drivel. Is he in competition with Taudrey for most inane comments made so far? Sack half this useless team and buy some decent players not a bunch of broken down crocks again.
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be careful, he must have skipped his medication
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No the inane comment award is in safe hands with you, Mike.It is the closed season after all- reporters have to earn a living and let’s face it the Express and Star aren’t likely to get a 2 page spread with Obama are they? Cheer up only two months to wait before you can boo the lads off the park at the first pre season friendly.
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I am normally quick to critcise too but I am holding my tongue until our first 1 legged signing. The BIG question is: “Where is it we want to get to? How far up the table is he looking? I know, that’s 2 questions :-)
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You don’t like interviews do you Mikey boy? Just how long do you think it takes to give a quote to the press? There was still time for Taundry to go off to his mid-summer training and Hutchings could still carry on with his business. Go and have a lie down …
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Desben has no intellect, no reasoned argument, merely inane personal comments. No ambition. Stay in Walsall.
QM saddler if you really are ex-QM then you need to be able to correctly draw conclusions from the data available. You cannot conclude that I will boo WFC off. Taudrey’s and Huthing’s comments were worthless drivel. Any tramp in the street could have said it. It was a worthless piece of news. Then again can today’s top story really be that a few people were frightened by the apes on Gibralter??????
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Blimey, Stephen Hakwin must be scarred stiff at Mike’s intellect and reasoned argument.
What a numpty. Especially as his reasoned argument and intellect simply compares two men answering the questions possed to them by a reporter as that of tramps.
I’m surprised he can read the small print from up there on his high horse!
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Is Stephen Hakwin related to the Lucasian professor of maths at Cambridge or is he a different person?
Why is he scarred? Has he been cut with something?
QED.
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No
Yes, with your rapier wit(!)
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