Travelling Wilbury wrote:
Hopefully better than Clogger
mmmm
I think the Clogger thing is a myth. He has been with us for years and nobody complained about our fitness when we were doing well from say 2016 - early 2019. It's a cop-out that lets players off the hook.
Clawson used pretty much the same techniques as all other SL clubs, with the obvious constraints of a club with poor training facilites compared to some.
If there was a fitness issue and IMHO there never was it was to do with poorly motivated players and by that I mean self-motivated. A fitness coach can only make you fit if you really want to be, it's easy for players to go through the motions and do the minimum, and it's very difficult to tell. Even if you can what players could we have dropped over the last three seasons, seasons where we could barely get a team together.
Clawson may not be the best I don't know but there is more to fitness than the bloke handing out the instructions. It has to be a joint effort otherwise you get mediocre.
Training is boring to most people and to do it well the motivation must come first from the player otherwise a change in coach will make very little difference in the medium to long term. If and it's a big if that we have been unfit then Clawson alone is not to blame, that's just too easy.