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Sweeping changes to continue
BILLY Davies has hit home just how much training has and will continue to change for Nottingham Forest’s squad.
The Scot celebrated guiding The Reds to safety in the Championship without even kicking a ball after Reading’s 2-0 win at Norwich on Monday.
But that was after an inspirational five game unbeaten in the last month that has been the reward for four months hard work and change on and off the pitch.
And Davies has re-iterated those changes, particularly in training methods, will continue in abundance over the summer.
“They’ll probably be between 40 and 60 changes we’ll make at this football club come the summertime, little things, little details,” he said.
“For example staff now reporting to the academy rather than the City Ground, players are never going to report to the City Ground in the future. Lunches won’t be five course, 10 star meals, they’ll be soup and sandwiches.”
“Individual players are now getting different types of training. We’ve set in place a very heavy fine for weights and body fats and that’s being done on a regular basis.”
“If I showed you the very first day’s training I had recorded and then showed you the training now, it’s not night and day difference, it’s grass and sky.”
“How we work is only an opinion of mine. There’s never anything right or wrong and I’m sick of saying it, there is no magic formula in football, it is only an opinion.
“But how we’ve been training and speaking with individual players and doing little bits and pieces, the difference between then and now is huge.”
“We’ve increased the training programme, we’ve changed the way we prepared, we’ve changed the teamtalks, we’ve changed the pre-match build ups, so many different things.”
Sweeping changes to continue
BILLY Davies has hit home just how much training has and will continue to change for Nottingham Forest’s squad.
The Scot celebrated guiding The Reds to safety in the Championship without even kicking a ball after Reading’s 2-0 win at Norwich on Monday.
But that was after an inspirational five game unbeaten in the last month that has been the reward for four months hard work and change on and off the pitch.
And Davies has re-iterated those changes, particularly in training methods, will continue in abundance over the summer.
“They’ll probably be between 40 and 60 changes we’ll make at this football club come the summertime, little things, little details,” he said.
“For example staff now reporting to the academy rather than the City Ground, players are never going to report to the City Ground in the future. Lunches won’t be five course, 10 star meals, they’ll be soup and sandwiches.”
“Individual players are now getting different types of training. We’ve set in place a very heavy fine for weights and body fats and that’s being done on a regular basis.”
“If I showed you the very first day’s training I had recorded and then showed you the training now, it’s not night and day difference, it’s grass and sky.”
“How we work is only an opinion of mine. There’s never anything right or wrong and I’m sick of saying it, there is no magic formula in football, it is only an opinion.
“But how we’ve been training and speaking with individual players and doing little bits and pieces, the difference between then and now is huge.”
“We’ve increased the training programme, we’ve changed the way we prepared, we’ve changed the teamtalks, we’ve changed the pre-match build ups, so many different things.”
