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Town: Fitness Coach Henry Now in Consultancy Role
Monday, 30th Nov 2020 13:41

Town have issued a statement regarding fitness coach Jim Henry, which says that the 68-year-old will continue to work for the club on a consultancy basis until the end of the season despite having returned to his native Scotland for personal reasons.

As reported earlier, it has been understood that Henry, whose official job title is head of athletic performance/sports science, had left the club.

A statement on the club site reads: “Jim Henry has returned to his home in Scotland for personal reasons but will remain working for the club over the rest of the season.

“The first-team head of performance/sports science at the club will take on a new consultancy role on fitness and recovery.”

General manager of football operations Lee O’Neill added: “I spoke to Jim recently and we agreed that for personal reasons it would be beneficial for him to return home to Scotland.

“Jim is vastly experienced and we will continue to use that knowledge over the rest of the season but it will now be in more of a consultancy role.”

Henry joined the Blues just over two years ago when manager Paul Lambert took charge at Portman Road having previously worked with the Blues boss at Stoke.

Following his exit first-team coach Matt Gill has taken on Henry's warming-up duties at the last two matches.

A former Scotland international judo athlete, Henry has also worked at Bury, Rangers, Hibs, Sunderland, Aston Villa and Celtic.


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FromIpswichToPhoenix added 19:42 - Nov 30
We have a fitness coach?
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RegencyBlue added 21:01 - Nov 30
So, we are expected to believe our fitness coach will still be working for us from Scotland? What's he going to do, get the whole squad on zoom!

How thick do the Club think we are?

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moggasnotebook added 21:35 - Nov 30
Northstandveteran - word for word NAILED IT!
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Roola added 22:53 - Nov 30
Wonder if him and Lambert had a serious bust up and he's been put on gardening leave to allow things to blow over and avoid negative of press...
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KiwiBlue2 added 01:38 - Dec 1
Well I too am 68 and still out-perform many in their 20s and 30s at the gym and keep mentally in shape studying for a PhD as well as holding down 3 part-time jobs.
Jim has clearly had a lot of experience and should know what works and what does not. Before being quick to slag him off we need to know more about the differences behind the scenes.
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Razor added 10:42 - Dec 1
I am no expert but is he being kept on in a consultancy basis to stop him sueing for wrongful dismissal, or something like that?

Seems a strange set up to me----mind you The Ipswich Nursing and Rest Home is quite used to paying people for doing nothing so perhaps not too strange.
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