Summertime Blues - Ipswich Town News
Boss Paul Jewell has revealed that his squad will spend more of their summer than usual at Playford Road preparing for the 2012/13 season. Due to Euro 2012 and then the Olympics, which run from July 27th to August 12th, this year’s close season is longer than ever with the new campaign not starting until August 18th.
Jewell said: "The players are delighted because they’ve got to come in during the summer. They’re really pleased that they’ll be in three days a week.
"They’ll have their holidays and then they’ll be in three days a week because it’s a long old break this year and just giving them eight or nine weeks off is not an option.”
He says the club have asked the players for details of their breaks: "We have to give them three weeks consecutive holiday. I’ve had all the players’ holidays in. We’re just going through them now and then they will be in intermittently during the summer for their own good. I’m sure the wives are delighted!”
As for the pre-season tour, Jewell says that the destination is yet to be decided: "That depends on my budget.”
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