Squad fitness

[Collymore]

Abhorrent. 

 

We've got the biggest wage bill the best facilities by far and look out on our feet sometimes with various injuries and players looking absolutely done over with a couple of games. 

 

What the hell are we doing?  

[st albans fox]

Been non existent for years 

[jayfox26]

Its a good point but I feel the injuries are killing us at the moment. We have a lack of options in centre mid and centre back at the moment plus left back. We seem to have a fair few older players like Vestergaard, Ayew, Reid etc and then some really young players but not so much in between. Can't put my finger on it other than the injury problems but it's clear to see that these players haven't played a decent 90 minutes all season.

[ClaphamFox]

7 minutes ago, Collymore said:

Abhorrent. 

 

We've got the biggest wage bill the best facilities by far and look out on our feet sometimes with various injuries and players looking absolutely done over with a couple of games. 

 

What the hell are we doing?  

From the moment we came out for the second half, we looked like a team that was completely dead on its feet after battling its way through a 120min World Cup final against vastly superior opposition rather than one that had just played 45mins of second tier football against an average side. Fitness seems to be a major problem. It’s very odd.

[Tuna]

We are not a proper squad. We are the remnants of previous squads, totally disjointed, too many players in certain positions and not enough in others. Woeful, useless and being killed by neglect from the ownership.

[LCFCCKEANO]

1 hour ago, Tuna said:

We are not a proper squad. We are the remnants of previous squads, totally disjointed, too many players in certain positions and not enough in others. Woeful, useless and being killed by neglect from the ownership.

Couldn’t be more true, Marti isn’t great and some of the players haven’t covered themselves in glory but this is 95% the squad planning, multiple people on 6/7 figure salaries should be able to put together a functional group of employees, its management 101, not even football management, basic management that a manager at Maccies would probably require, hopefully the new TD sorts it out but I will bet it’ll be another KP pawn

[Muzzy_no7]

We didn’t replace Enzo’s fitness coach 

[Dan]

It's definitely a problem. Unable to properly rotate tonight due to the rightful freezing out of certain individuals but we still have an advantage over a lot of the league and you'd never think it. 

[Mike Oxlong]

We looked as knackered as a couple of Thai hookers after an all night bender with an Aussie spinner

[Globalfox]

I and others have been saying this since the latter part of the Bodgers era. I believe this also contributes to a lot of our injuries. The fitness coaching staff is too touchy freely in my opinion. The pl winning season managers like Klopp were in awe of our fitness. However when Harvey Barnes left us Newcastle were shocked at how unfit he was. Even against Derby we were  a 45 minute side. The back room and Seagrave cabal needs a clear out we are too comfortable throughout the whole club. Back to basics.

[South Shire Fox]

Wasnt Andy King in charge of that during the summer? Shouldnt even be touching a football for the first week of pre season

Edited 11 December 2025 by South Shire Fox

[fox_favourite]

Just give them the Vards diet...2 cans of red bull at half time. Sorted. 

Edited 11 December 2025 by fox_favourite

[coolhandfox]

8 hours ago, Tuna said:

We are not a proper squad. We are the remnants of previous squads, totally disjointed, too many players in certain positions and not enough in others. Woeful, useless and being killed by neglect from the ownership.

Not sure that has anything to do with how fit they are, the minimum ask should be they are fit.

[FoxesTez]

Below par fitness and lack of application - bad combination. 

 

Going to be a huge issue as we go through busy period over Christmas. 

[Katy]

Seagrave has ruined us. I don’t care if it’s the best training facility in the UK or whatever, we’re not making proper use of it for some reason. We’ve become lazy and spoilt and we’d be better off selling it and going elsewhere. 

[Chrysalis]

Seagrave is bad for fitness not good for it, Albrighton went public on the harm it caused.

[VLC86]

1 minute ago, Chrysalis said:

Seagrave is bad for fitness not good for it, Albrighton went public on the harm it caused.

What did he say?

[Winstonthedog]

How many do you see going down with cramp after giving everything..... usually even if you are knackered adrenaline takes over .... our lot look like their ready for bed come 60 minutes 

[Chrysalis]

2 hours ago, VLC86 said:

What did he say?

I feel I cant say with an assumption its accurate word for word, but it was something along the lines the place became too comfortable for a place of work, a sauna type experience, instead of a training ground.

[oldbluefox]

37 minutes ago, Winstonthedog said:

How many do you see going down with cramp after giving everything..... usually even if you are knackered adrenaline takes over .... our lot look like their ready for bed come 60 minutes 

60 minutes…..that long!!! 😂😂😂

[Lambert09]

On 11/12/2025 at 01:24, Globalfox said:

I and others have been saying this since the latter part of the Bodgers era. I believe this also contributes to a lot of our injuries. The fitness coaching staff is too touchy freely in my opinion. The pl winning season managers like Klopp were in awe of our fitness. However when Harvey Barnes left us Newcastle were shocked at how unfit he was. Even against Derby we were  a 45 minute side. The back room and Seagrave cabal needs a clear out we are too comfortable throughout the whole club. Back to basics.

Believe it or not, we likely distanced ourselves from the high fitness demands because of the awful injury’s we got with Rodgers. We literally just use sea grave as a spa these days with occasional footy 

Edited 12 December 2025 by Lambert09

[kiddo]

They ought to take them out of Seagrave and go up Bradgate for a month's training.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

16 minutes ago, Chrysalis said:

I feel I cant say with an assumption its accurate word for word, but it was something along the lines the place became too comfortable for a place of work, a sauna type experience, instead of a training ground.

 

Okay, so it's the players not Seagrave? 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

If your place of work is a word class training facility with everything an athlete could ever want and you decide to dick about, I hate to say it but the fault doesn't lie with the objectively fantastic facilities.

Edited 12 December 2025 by Miquel The Work Geordie

[Lad1966]

The problem is, since we moved the Seagrave, players we brought in, have been brought for possession based football, and they are not suited to high energy football, everyone else is playing, so it’s no wonder our players look knackered!

Edited 12 December 2025 by Lad1966