Peter Whittingham comes out on top

PETER Whittingham led the way in bleep tests against fellow senior professionals.

New manager Malky Mackay split his squad in two on the first day of pre-season training yesterday and it was all about fitness tests.

Half the players were at the Vale of Glamorgan Resort training complex involved in tests checking lung capacity and other assets, while the others were at Cardiff’s indoor House of Sport.

There was plenty of running, along with fat tests.
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Then, after a lunch break, the groups switched over.

The senior pros, watched by Mackay and his management team, went through a series sprints. They charged down the track time and again, given the chance to recover as they walked back to the start.

Then came the endurance related bleep test with Solomon Taiwo, Whittingham, Stephen McPhail, Darcy Blake and Jon Parkin going up against each other.

Blake and Parkin went several rounds before dropping out as gaps between the bleeps were cut, leaving three to go for broke.

It was Whittingham who kept running after Taiwo and ‘Macca’ pulled up.

Whittingham powered on, significantly urged on by Parkin, Blake and Co in a show of team unity

Great to read that, but can I just ask did Whittingham come out on top against Taiwo, McPhail, Blake and Parkin, or did he have the best result out of the whole squad?

Thanks for the info.

Halfway down you say - "Click here to find out more." - but there's no link; like to hear more if possible.

Cheers.

I would have put my money on Parkin lol

Thanks for the info.

Halfway down you say - "Click here to find out more." - but there's no link; like to hear more if possible.

Cheers.

I would suggest that this might have been copied and pasted from somewhere else - hence the missing url link!

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/footballna ... -28980759/ lol

Cheers, do the Whittingham bashers still think he's lazy now? I hate it when people slate him, he is one of the highest ground coverers on the pitch, people just look at his body language and think he's lazy, but he always puts in a shift. He would not have been able to come out on top with the bleep test if he was "lazy" on the pitch last season.

Cheers, do the Whittingham bashers still think he's lazy now? I hate it when people slate him, he is one of the highest ground coverers on the pitch, people just look at his body language and think he's lazy, but he always puts in a shift. He would not have been able to come out on top with the bleep test if he was "lazy" on the pitch last season.

Problem with Whitts is that he hardly ever puts in a tackle and that is what us fans look at. A player can put in one decent tackle during a game and we all think is has had a cracker.

I accept the fact Whitts is not a ball winner but more of a winning pass specialist. Unfortunately we did not see much of that from him, specially as our strikers went awol 2nd half of last season. A winning pass is only scene when the ball is put in the back of the net.

Personally I feel Whitts was a victim of DJ not knowing what our best team was. Whitts played several positions last season, his most fruitful on the wing and scoring from a pass from the other wing, that usally being Bellamy on that other wing. I feel Whitts best position is central midfield were he is partnerships with a tough tackling midfielder who wins the pass for Whitts to do the pases that open up defences. With Cowie joining us I can see MM having him and Whitts in central midfield.

Cheers, do the Whittingham bashers still think he's lazy now? I hate it when people slate him, he is one of the highest ground coverers on the pitch, people just look at his body language and think he's lazy, but he always puts in a shift. He would not have been able to come out on top with the bleep test if he was "lazy" on the pitch last season.

Eh? A bleep test - amongst 6 players - reflects last season how precisely?

What a dumb assertion...

Whittingham is an immensely skilled player, with a cracking eye for a pass. However, the problem is, the consistency isn't there. Covers ground, sure, but isn't a tackler. Can easily disappear from games in terms of having an impact.

He may put in a shift, but was anonymous at the end of the season.

Cheers, do the Whittingham bashers still think he's lazy now? I hate it when people slate him, he is one of the highest ground coverers on the pitch, people just look at his body language and think he's lazy, but he always puts in a shift. He would not have been able to come out on top with the bleep test if he was "lazy" on the pitch last season.

Eh? A bleep test - amongst 6 players - reflects last season how precisely?

What a dumb assertion...

Whittingham is an immensely skilled player, with a cracking eye for a pass. However, the problem is, the consistency isn't there. Covers ground, sure, but isn't a tackler. Can easily disappear from games in terms of having an impact.

He may put in a shift, but was anonymous at the end of the season.

I think if you read the story again, it's saying that Whittingham came on top with the bleep test out of the WHOLE SQUAD, as the squad was split in half, with half at the Vale and half at the House of Sport, then they switched over. This indicates that although Whittingham did the bleep test with Taiwo, Blake, McPhail and Parkin, the WHOLE SQUAD did the bleep test with Whittingham coming out on top. That's how it reads to me anyway?

Cheers, do the Whittingham bashers still think he's lazy now? I hate it when people slate him, he is one of the highest ground coverers on the pitch, people just look at his body language and think he's lazy, but he always puts in a shift. He would not have been able to come out on top with the bleep test if he was "lazy" on the pitch last season.

Eh? A bleep test - amongst 6 players - reflects last season how precisely?

What a dumb assertion...

Whittingham is an immensely skilled player, with a cracking eye for a pass. However, the problem is, the consistency isn't there. Covers ground, sure, but isn't a tackler. Can easily disappear from games in terms of having an impact.

He may put in a shift, but was anonymous at the end of the season.

I think if you read the story again, it's saying that Whittingham came on top with the bleep test out of the WHOLE SQUAD, as the squad was split in half, with half at the Vale and half at the House of Sport, then they switched over. This indicates that although Whittingham did the bleep test with Taiwo, Blake, McPhail and Parkin, the WHOLE SQUAD did the bleep test with Whittingham coming out on top. That's how it reads to me anyway?

"The senior pros, watched by Mackay and his management team, went through a series sprints. They charged down the track time and again, given the chance to recover as they walked back to the start.

Then came the endurance related bleep test with Solomon Taiwo, Whittingham, Stephen McPhail, Darcy Blake and Jon Parkin going up against each other."

That reads that Mackay was with the senior squad, as a whole. Then reads only the named players did the bleep test...

Probably crap writing tbh.

"The senior pros, watched by Mackay and his management team, went through a series sprints. They charged down the track time and again, given the chance to recover as they walked back to the start.

Then came the endurance related bleep test with Solomon Taiwo, Whittingham, Stephen McPhail, Darcy Blake and Jon Parkin going up against each other."

That reads that Mackay was with the senior squad, as a whole. Then reads only the named players did the bleep test...

Probably crap writing tbh.

Fair point, I can understand why you read things that way and you may be right. Let's put it down to crap writing.

Well done Whitts !

i hate the bleeb test

is he still leaving?

Either way its so good to read stories like this.

No one can question the technical ability at our club. At times what we lacked is heart, commitment and fitness.

This type of training can breed it!!!

Well done Whitt's and everyone else at the club!

In the Army where we used the bleep test from 1989, it was the so called dogs bollox, get to 9.5 equals a mile and half in 10:30 mins the required test time for ifantry.

This test has been aborted, dose more harm than good, after level 7 where you start to motor, the constant "slamming on the breaks on one knee every 25 metres" will take its toll, can we imagine putting mr Bellamy through such??

Be lucky if he played at all for us...old, old , if thats whats being done now, i for one is worried. VERYYY

If Whitts is played in a forward midfield role he does not NEED to tackle, though
it would be nice to see him get stuck in. How many 50-50s do you see in Spanish
football?? its all about cutting down space for the opposition, making the pitch
smaller for them.

None of us know Malkys plans for Whittingham yet

Lets just wait and see eh?