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Well it does me anyway - just read this article and in particular the last paragraph.
Ok I know people see things differently and all that but if you have the stuff to hand then why not use it - I mean it wasn't as though the players hadn't got a few hours each week to do the tests - and it is not as though we were winning all the time and didn't need to think of other ways to improve?
So Messers Megson and Coyle - what the hell were you doing?
WANDERERS will today usher in a new era with the appointment of Mark Leather as their new head of sports development.
As The Bolton News revealed at the weekend, the club are looking to completely revamp their medical and sports science department this summer with the departure of several existing staff.
But it has now been confirmed that Leather – one of the integral members of Sam Allardyce’s backroom during the Premier League era – will be the man to front up the wholesale changes.
It is expected that more appointments will be made in the coming weeks, and that the team’s first task will be to address long-term injuries to Mark Davies and David Ngog in an effort to bring them back into first team football as quickly as possible.
Dougie Freedman, speaking for the first time on the back-room changes, admitted he was excited aas he looked ahead.
“This club has had a reputation in the past of being at the very forefront of this kind of thing and the facilities we still have are excellent, so we want to make the very best of that,” he said “Nowadays it is absolutely vital that you get players the right treatment, the right rest, rehabilitation if it is needed, and that every aspect of recovery is done right. That is what I want from here on in.
“That isn’t a criticism of how things were done before (Oh I think it is don't you? - Sluffy), just that we are simply going in a different direction.”
Leather was head physiotherapist at Wanderers for three years and also worked at Liverpool, Sunderland, Preston, Burnley, Brighton and Wigan rugby league club.
A life-long Bolton fan who has worked in professional sport for 25 years, Leather was also a trusted member of Allardyce's medical team.
Equipment installed at the club's Euxton-based training ground was comparable with anything else in the country but much of it has remained unused in recent years.
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Ok I know people see things differently and all that but if you have the stuff to hand then why not use it - I mean it wasn't as though the players hadn't got a few hours each week to do the tests - and it is not as though we were winning all the time and didn't need to think of other ways to improve?
So Messers Megson and Coyle - what the hell were you doing?
WANDERERS will today usher in a new era with the appointment of Mark Leather as their new head of sports development.
As The Bolton News revealed at the weekend, the club are looking to completely revamp their medical and sports science department this summer with the departure of several existing staff.
But it has now been confirmed that Leather – one of the integral members of Sam Allardyce’s backroom during the Premier League era – will be the man to front up the wholesale changes.
It is expected that more appointments will be made in the coming weeks, and that the team’s first task will be to address long-term injuries to Mark Davies and David Ngog in an effort to bring them back into first team football as quickly as possible.
Dougie Freedman, speaking for the first time on the back-room changes, admitted he was excited aas he looked ahead.
“This club has had a reputation in the past of being at the very forefront of this kind of thing and the facilities we still have are excellent, so we want to make the very best of that,” he said “Nowadays it is absolutely vital that you get players the right treatment, the right rest, rehabilitation if it is needed, and that every aspect of recovery is done right. That is what I want from here on in.
“That isn’t a criticism of how things were done before (Oh I think it is don't you? - Sluffy), just that we are simply going in a different direction.”
Leather was head physiotherapist at Wanderers for three years and also worked at Liverpool, Sunderland, Preston, Burnley, Brighton and Wigan rugby league club.
A life-long Bolton fan who has worked in professional sport for 25 years, Leather was also a trusted member of Allardyce's medical team.
Equipment installed at the club's Euxton-based training ground was comparable with anything else in the country but much of it has remained unused in recent years.
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