Chief executive Simon Clegg says he and manager Roy Keane will meet soon to discuss Town’s pre-season plans for 2010/11. Last summer's pre-season, which Clegg admits was "disjointed", has been criticised in some quarters as one of the factors behind the club's poor start to the season.
The chief executive told TWTD: "Roy and I are due over the next couple of months to start planning pre-season for 2010/11.
"We need to recognise that as we both arrived in April at the back end of the season and went straight into the close season that we couldn’t actually do any real, proper strategic planning last summer.
"I’m talking in terms of where we wanted games to sit, when we wanted the army training to take place, whether we wanted some warm weather training overseas and how we put together a package which covered the whole of the build-up and provided the optimum build-up to the first game of the season.
"We didn’t get that opportunity last around, we were both desperately running to try and keep up, but now we are in a position to do that we will see a much more integrated programme over the close season in 2010. I wouldn’t say it was a bit of a rush this year, but it was a bit disjointed.”
Clegg says he expects the Blues to continue their recent improved form between now and May: "I am excited about the second half of the season.
"I am confident that you will see the club making significant progress up the Championship table between now and the end of the season.”