Ayling- teams fitness levels

[bathlad61]

Ayling saying that the clubs reknown fitness / running levels have dropped off this season. Surely if this is the case, being a senior player etc, any issues you would have thought, would/should have been corrected fairly quickly.
Club has fitness coaches galore, many electronic systems measuring every step / mile / weight lifted, diets etc, just what have they been doing.

[WTF11]

Ayling saying that the clubs reknown fitness / running levels have dropped off this season. Surely if this is the case, being a senior player etc, any issues you would have thought, would/should have been corrected fairly quickly.
Club has fitness coaches galore, many electronic systems measuring every step / mile / weight lifted, diets etc, just what have they been doing.

I suspect that he was willing to mention this subject during his after-match interview in view of the fact that the issues (and we have all seen how the fitness levels have dropped over the weeks and months of this season (before and after the WC), haven't been addressed, and he feels able to raise them in a public manner (bit like Bamford suggesting that the w4nk had the wrong tactics, the "roasting" that supposedly led to the w4nk being given the elbow).

Taken together with the appallingly bad decisions regarding which players to recruit, the lunatic decision to appoint the w4nk as replacement for Bielsa, and the diabolical shambles that ensued following the w4nk getting the push, I don't think it's really very surprising that the morale of the players is through the floor.

If, as looks likely, the back room is in as much disarray as what we see from the public-facing aspects of club activity, then the poor fitness of players, and their inability to take-on of new/improved tactics is equally unsurprising.

Relegation will be a hard pill to swallow, but if (big if) it prompts a root-and-branch clear out of the sh1te that the current owner and his entourage have inflicted on the club, it might at least have some good aspects (and ridding ourselves of one exceedingly bad apples is nowhere near enough).