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Connor: Know the Score!
Tuesday, 9th Jul 2013 09:17

Assistant boss Terry Connor was amused to hear midfielder Luke Hyam’s comments on the tough pre-season workout he and the rest of the squad were put through while in Ireland last week.

On Thursday, four days into the camp at Carton House in Kildare, the 21-year-old tweeted: “Day 4: legs falling off.”

A laughing Connor responded: “Tell Luke Hyam, I’ll tweet back to him ‘It’s pre-season and he knows the score!’.

“We’ve worked hard for two weeks and [fitness coach] Andy Liddell puts them through their paces physically and we still demand when they do their football drills that they do them at top speed, at top whack.

“So, yes, they’re going to feel tired but we’ve tried to mix in the physical work with rest and hopefully we’ll see by 3rd August a team that’s prepared, ready for a full season.”

Connor was set to speak to manager Mick McCarthy — who returned from Ireland early for a charity event and missed Saturday’s Shelbourne friendly - yesterday regarding trialists Dean Gerken and Dan Seaborne. Gerken has been training with Town for a fortnight, while Seaborne was with the squad in Ireland.

As revealed last week, talks had already begun regarding the former Colchester and Bristol City keeper joining the Blues, while Town are also understood to have started discussions with the ex-Southampton central defender regarding a deal at Portman Road.

The duo and new signing Paul Anderson look set to be involved in Wednesday’s pre-season friendly at Crawley (KO 7.45pm).

We understand talks are also continuing between the Blues and Hyam regarding the extension to his contract.


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MitchtheITFCman added 20:52 - Jul 9
Just putting this out there; why not look to the arsenal youth team. I have heard that Alfred Mugabo is quite good. (He plays right back or in midfield) he is 17. Worth a shot?
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BuckieBlue added 22:38 - Jul 9
Interesting debate on here- success (top 6 next season?) v style of football.
A few points: We're the longest 'serving' side in championship. Logically eventually every 'long serving' side leaves the division- usually downwards (e.g. Coventry) because they haven't the cash and/or ability to go up and start to stagnate.
Over last 5 years+ we have been getting nowhere near PL. OK MM's style doesn't suit everyone on here but two final points: 1) the longer we are in Championship the less and less likely we are to get a manager with PL experience or sucessful Championship experience (obviously MM ticks both boxes), 2) if in 12/24 months time we are in PL will anyone on here be complaining?
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lonelyblue added 00:36 - Jul 10
Walk the Wark. Who has the better managerial record on a points per game basis for their current club? Guess what. It isn't Holloway. Who I like immensely btw. Ollie inherited a team vying for promotion. MM a team who already looked relegated. The latter achieved 1.56 points per game, including those early maulings - including that one at Palace - when the team was an utter shambles, NRC was playing, and Chambo looked worse than me. 1.56 points per game from there. Holloway achieved 1.43 points per game. Still pretty good, and you can't deny they got promoted, but he didn't have to face the scenario MM did, did he? If stats were everything, IH would've just kept us up on 55 points. Or would he? I can't BELIEVE that anybody has a negative word to say about MM at the moment. Just to reiterate: what was the worst team in the league by a country mile subsequently achieves 1.56 points per game for 34 games, and we moan about the manager before the season has even begun. Go on, argue with me! Back. Your. Football. Club.
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Fatcatevans added 13:18 - Jul 10
Walk the walk - ask a deceased man? Your muddled thinking is reaching new limits
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