" WHAT A TURNAROUND "

Annis, I never said it was a mini-update you got the natives restless

Malky Mackay's back-room staff work hard with the players and have them on strict diets and each player is monitored regularly for their fitness levels.

David Kerslake in particular keeps the players on their own toes and in ship shape and the players have a huge amount of respect for him.

The average professional footballer has a body-fat percentage of around 10% but our players are mainly around the 8% mark.

The difference in the squad we have today to that of when Malky and his staff first walked into the club is massive in terms of training, discipline and ego's.

For example at the end of last season each player was given a diet to stick to over the close season and each one was given a target of a body-fat percentage that they were expected to return with, I understand three players, who are no longer at the club, returned for pre-season training with percentages higher than when they left at the end of last season.

Darcy Blake left with 12% and was given a target of 10%, though I am told that the staff would have accepted 11% but Darcy returned with a percentage very close to 15%.

Anthony Gerrard was another player who failed to meet the target given.

Jon Parkin had a body-fat percentage of 19%.

I don't want this to be a criticism of those players but rather to show how hard the other players are working to hit the targets set by the staff.

Another example of how things have changed at our club, we don't get the horror stories we used to have under the Dave Jones reign, I often gave updates on players bad behaviour and in some cases it took a long time for the truth to come out, a long time after I written about them. We had stories about Chopra and his gambling addicition and even though the story of the nasty's paying a visit, I believe it was reported that these shadies turned up at the training ground, in fact it was 90 minutes before a home league match that they turned up demanding their money, I am told Dave Jones had to guarantee their money before they would leave the stadium so he could at least carry on preparing for the game, surprisingly Chopra still played in that game.

I note that Jay Bothroyd has said in an interview today that former Chief Executive Gethin Jenkins tried selling Bothroyd without Jones' knowledge but at the time I reported Jay went on twitter to denounce what I said as nonsense, shame he forgot about that when he confirmed it in a recent interview.

Under Dave Jones players would turn up late for training and generally there were too many ego's around the squad at the time and the ill-discipline went unpunished, such is not the case at the club today. This group of players are disciplined and committed and are giving everything that is expected of them and in some cases are giving more.

Anyone who visits the Vale on training days will have seen players staying behind to put in extra training and practice even though it is in their time and are not expected to do so, it is the fact that they want to shows the commitment they are giving.

Jordon Mutch will undergo surgery on his foot problem this summer in an attempt to cure the condition once and for all, the club expect Mutch to have a big future in the game and with us, this season he has been playing with a specially designed boot to aid him.

Craig Noone is on fire in training of late and hopefully we will see the benefit of this in upcoming games, Mark Hudson has been training also and will be in the squad to face Leicester tomorrow evening, as will Craig Bellamy.

Heidar Helguson deserves praise for his commitment to the cause also, I am told he is scarred from head to toe because of the challenges he goes into and even in training he does not shirk out of any challenges.

Despite rumours Filip Kiss and Etien Velikonja are training with the first team and are very much part of the group.

Nicky Maynard is another player who puts in the extra shift too, on many occasions he will do an extra 2 hours after training is finished.

I was asked last week if there was any truth in Charlie Adam signing on loan, there is absolutely no truth at all in this rumour and the only way Malky Mackay will bring any player in on loan is either because of a desperate injury situation or a player becomes available that is too good to turn down.

For those of you who have not yet renewed your season tickets, I would recommend you do so as soon as possible because come April 1st they will be offered and sold to the 1,000 who are on the waiting list.

Whilst you are viewing this write up, it could be worth your while taking a look at this thread also viewtopic.php?f=7&t=51137

I wasn't sure about the Charlie Adams link myself, interesting though.

Adams rumour was always nonsense.

Great to hear about Maynard.

Great update Carlos

Funny a very very positive post by yourself and hardly any response, do people only look for scandal Hmm

Great update Carlos

Funny a very very positive post by yourself and hardly any response, do people only look for scandal Hmm

It seems that way mate

Personally I would be delighted with a body fat of 19%

BTW great mini update even if it wasn't one

Personally I would be delighted with a body fat of 19%

BTW great mini update even if it wasn't one

Jay Bothroyd....This was the Fulham transfer?

So did he admit to this the other day?

Great to here players giving that extra work after training .Malky seems to have that Ora about him what ever it is the players the fans and everybody else at the club are sold on Malky he realy has made his mark.

We have a top manager at the club that people respect and long may it continue.Will be interesting to see how he and the team do if we get promotion.

Brilliant season so far keep it up and we will go up.

Great update Carlos

Funny a very very positive post by yourself and hardly any response, do people only look for scandal Hmm

Wheres this update Annis

Pure fabrication.
Jon Parkin 19% body fat.....................your having a laugh

Who ate all the pies

Annis, I never said it was a mini-update you got the natives restless

Malky Mackay's back-room staff work hard with the players and have them on strict diets and each player is monitored regularly for their fitness levels.

David Kerslake in particular keeps the players on their own toes and in ship shape and the players have a huge amount of respect for him.

The average professional footballer has a body-fat percentage of around 10% but our players are mainly around the 8% mark.

The difference in the squad we have today to that of when Malky and his staff first walked into the club is massive in terms of training, discipline and ego's.

For example at the end of last season each player was given a diet to stick to over the close season and each one was given a target of a body-fat percentage that they were expected to return with, I understand three players, who are no longer at the club, returned for pre-season training with percentages higher than when they left at the end of last season.

Darcy Blake left with 12% and was given a target of 10%, though I am told that the staff would have accepted 11% but Darcy returned with a percentage very close to 15%.

Anthony Gerrard was another player who failed to meet the target given.

Jon Parkin had a body-fat percentage of 19%.

I don't want this to be a criticism of those players but rather to show how hard the other players are working to hit the targets set by the staff.

Another example of how things have changed at our club, we don't get the horror stories we used to have under the Dave Jones reign, I often gave updates on players bad behaviour and in some cases it took a long time for the truth to come out, a long time after I written about them. We had stories about Chopra and his gambling addicition and even though the story of the nasty's paying a visit, I believe it was reported that these shadies turned up at the training ground, in fact it was 90 minutes before a home league match that they turned up demanding their money, I am told Dave Jones had to guarantee their money before they would leave the stadium so he could at least carry on preparing for the game, surprisingly Chopra still played in that game.

I note that Jay Bothroyd has said in an interview today that former Chief Executive Gethin Jenkins tried selling Bothroyd without Jones' knowledge but at the time I reported Jay went on twitter to denounce what I said as nonsense, shame he forgot about that when he confirmed it in a recent interview.

Under Dave Jones players would turn up late for training and generally there were too many ego's around the squad at the time and the ill-discipline went unpunished, such is not the case at the club today. This group of players are disciplined and committed and are giving everything that is expected of them and in some cases are giving more.

Anyone who visits the Vale on training days will have seen players staying behind to put in extra training and practice even though it is in their time and are not expected to do so, it is the fact that they want to shows the commitment they are giving.

Jordon Mutch will undergo surgery on his foot problem this summer in an attempt to cure the condition once and for all, the club expect Mutch to have a big future in the game and with us, this season he has been playing with a specially designed boot to aid him.

Craig Noone is on fire in training of late and hopefully we will see the benefit of this in upcoming games, Mark Hudson has been training also and will be in the squad to face Leicester tomorrow evening, as will Craig Bellamy.

Heidar Helguson deserves praise for his commitment to the cause also, I am told he is scarred from head to toe because of the challenges he goes into and even in training he does not shirk out of any challenges.

Despite rumours Filip Kiss and Etien Velikonja are training with the first team and are very much part of the group.

Nicky Maynard is another player who puts in the extra shift too, on many occasions he will do an extra 2 hours after training is finished.

I was asked last week if there was any truth in Charlie Adam signing on loan, there is absolutely no truth at all in this rumour and the only way Malky Mackay will bring any player in on loan is either because of a desperate injury situation or a player becomes available that is too good to turn down.

For those of you who have not yet renewed your season tickets, I would recommend you do so as soon as possible because come April 1st they will be offered and sold to the 1,000 who are on the waiting list.

Whilst you are viewing this write up, it could be worth your while taking a look at this thread also viewtopic.php?f=7&t=51137

that,s a definate update carlos.a very good one at that mate malky seems as though that every penny he spends or uses on wages is coming out of his own pocket.malky demands they put a shift in and earn their dollar.glad he has made his team accountable.fans love to know they are not getting ragged over by footballers who take their job for granted.

Just a question but doesn't it bother anybody else that some of the players obviously don't believe the training is taking them to the level of fitness they want to be at so stay behind afterwards ?
Any player that need to stay behind for extra training obviously isn't getting enough in general sessions !
Or is that Just me ?
To me it's quite worrying !

Just a question but doesn't it bother anybody else that some of the players obviously don't believe the training is taking them to the level of fitness they want to be at so stay behind afterwards ?
Any player that need to stay behind for extra training obviously isn't getting enough in general sessions !
Or is that Just me ?
To me it's quite worrying !

Just you I think mate no need to worry, more likely staying behind to work on their technique rather than fitness I.e free kicks,crossing,passing,shooting. A lot of top players do this like ronaldo etc so I think it's positive our players are doing this and proves that their determined and want to get better and better which is great for cardiff city

Well said, cakey and thanks, Carlos.

We need a win tonight, so I'm hoping we get it. My day has started badly with a delayed train, but I won't consider that a bad omen - honest!

Good Update. Shows how more professional we are these days.

A quick question though Carl... we all know of things that happened under Jones and some of us never liked or respected him despite bringing relative success to our club... especially in his early days with us under difficult circumstances but the latter years, in my opinion, were a disaster. However, as more and more comes out about the Jones years are you still defending his time here as you have done in the past? The more that comes out the more I feel they were wasted years where extreme unprofessional and egos almost ruined our club.

Great update Carlos

Funny a very very positive post by yourself and hardly any response, do people only look for scandal Hmm

Of course people do. Good news like this should be buried in the rebrand arguements, so it is not seen.

Just a question but doesn't it bother anybody else that some of the players obviously don't believe the training is taking them to the level of fitness they want to be at so stay behind afterwards ?
Any player that need to stay behind for extra training obviously isn't getting enough in general sessions !
Or is that Just me ?
To me it's quite worrying !

The extra work relates to yoga sessions. Every player has to wear a heart monitor now during training and the data is then analyzed by the staff afterwards. This ensures that every player is doing to optimum level of work and can also highlight if a player is close to burn out. It all seems ultra professional down there these days. Very very impressive and great to see such a dedicated team of players and staff. We may not always be easy on the eye but I've never known a City team to work as hard as this one.

All this is good and well but perhaps if they concentrated more on training how to pass to each other (and not the opposition) and to tackle wingers and shoot on target and score goals then perhaps we wouldn't be all so anxious at the moment.

All this is good and well but perhaps if they concentrated more on training how to pass to each other (and not the opposition) and to tackle wingers and shoot on target and score goals then perhaps we wouldn't be all so anxious at the moment.

you need to change your name to Vinny says as it sounds like the sort of clap trap comment he would come out with. 6 points clear of the dreaded third place with 2 games in hand they must be doing something right

Whilst you are viewing this write up, it could be worth your while taking a look at this thread also viewtopic.php?f=7&t=51137

Haha - It works, I was really curious what is it