ian1964 10,416 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 HEAD of Performance Preparation Craig Flannigan has been delighted with the condition Rangers’ first-team stars have returned to training in. The Light Blues players enjoyed just four weeks away from Auchenhowie before beginning their preparations for their Scottish Premiership assault on Saturday, but Flannigan explained the players’ work hasn’t really stopped despite their break. He explained to RangersTV.tv: “It’s been a short off-season. Normally the players would have six or seven weeks, but due to the Cup Final the season was extended. “It was important the guys got total physical and mental rest in that period. Normally we’d advocate them having at least two weeks of doing absolutely nothing, but in some instance, some of the lads had played just about every minute of every game, so we had to individualise what they were doing with the main focus of everyone returning for day one of pre-season fit and healthy, and everyone has done so. “They’ve all come back in great condition, but I didn’t expect anything less as they are a good group of professionals, and while the short off-season can have its down-side, it means there isn’t too much time to de-condition.” Mark Warburton’s men will travel to America on Monday before returning on July 8 and will then be pitched into their first competitive game away to Motherwell just eight days later, and Flannigan explained the work the players will go through in order to ready them for the early start to the new season. He added: “We will train with double sessions for the first three days of this week, progressively getting more intense, and then have a rest day on Thursday before training Friday and Saturday and travel to the States on Monday for phase two of pre-season. “We’ll have 10 days out there before coming back and we are straight into the League Cup and subsequently the league campaign. “It’s certainly a lot earlier in terms of playing competitive matches, so we are just going to have to treat it as preparatory for the league, and that’s not placing less significance on the cup, but with the timeframe and the players only having a four-week off-season, we didn’t really want to change our schedule too much. “We will need to work around it, and we also have some competitive friendlies too so hopefully by the stage of the opening league game, all the players will be up to speed in terms of appropriate game-time for that stage of the season.” Supporters will also have noticed the absence of Barrie McKay from training over the last few days, with the youngster being afforded an additional break given his Scotland commitments at the end of last season. Flannigan concluded: “Barrie’s season was extended by two weeks, and he is one of the players that played almost every minute, so I think it’s important he gets his rest period as well, so he will report back on Saturday and we will be progressive with him in terms of how we ease him back into the programme.” http://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/flannigan-happy-player-condition/ 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltersgotstyle 297 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I am a bit worried about our lack of friendlies before the Motherwell game 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,150 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I am a bit worried about our lack of friendlies before the Motherwell game I think the league cup is our friendly programme. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltersgotstyle 297 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I think the league cup is our friendly programme. Yeah I believe it is - but I don't fully agree with that. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,150 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Yeah I believe it is - but I don't fully agree with that. Which is fair enough but if we add friendlies into the mix then it really makes for an overly busy schedule before the league season even starts. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltersgotstyle 297 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Which is fair enough but if we add friendlies into the mix then it really makes for an overly busy schedule before the league season even starts. I think my main gripe here is the ridiculously early start to the League Cup to be honest. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Germinal 27 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I am a bit worried about our lack of friendlies before the Motherwell game I'm only worried about the complete gibberish that fella uses. I hope his practical skills are better than his articulation: individualise off-season down-side de-condition Shakespeare was a great one for inventing words as well. But he never coached a football team, so far as we know. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,808 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Friendlies didn't feature much last season but it certainly didn't hinder what was a brand new squad, getting us off to a sustained flier. It seems to be how MW operates. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I don't seem to have a problem with those words: they are already in use, rather than him making them up, and are a result of specialisation where certain words start to be used to be very specific about what someone in the field is talking about, so that a fellow professional can immediately assimilate what they are on about. I think those words are pretty easily understood by the layman also. The only problem grammatically is some of the superfluous hyphenation but, as he's being quoted from the spoken word, that's hardly his fault. For me the words are very appropriate to describe fitness. Close season may be more specific to football than off season but the latter is more related to sports science. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juancornetto 1 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I don't seem to have a problem with those words: they are already in use, rather than him making them up, and are a result of specialisation where certain words start to be used to be very specific about what someone in the field is talking about, so that a fellow professional can immediately assimilate what they are on about. I think those words are pretty easily understood by the layman also. The only problem grammatically is some of the superfluous hyphenation but, as he's being quoted from the spoken word, that's hardly his fault. For me the words are very appropriate to describe fitness. Close season may be more specific to football than off season but the latter is more related to sports science. One does hyper-appreciate the occasional left-field rant from you Calscot 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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