Slaven Bilic’s out-of-the-blue decision to move the first team squad to Rush Green from Chadwell Heath came as a surprise to everybody inside the club today.
The manager had told nobody outside of his coaching staff what he had in mind but has immediately received the full backing of the board.
Whilst he clearly doesn’t KNOW that Chadwell Heath is responsible for the injury record at the club he suspects that the soft/hard ground may be responsible.
And with start of the art training pitches in place at Rush Green he is determined to eliminate any last risk.
A club source said: “Nobody knew about the decision until today. We thought the changeover would take place next season but the facilities are in place and it’s the manager’s decision. He will get all the support he requires.
“There are three world class pitches at Rush Green – all of which had laser beams used on them to make sure they were 100 per cent level.
“Not everybody is of the view that Chadwell Heath is the sole problem but all the facilities are in place at Rush Green and if the manager wants to use them it’s entirely his decision.
It could have the effect of freshening everybody up as well.”
Not sure it is just Chadwell Heath although Matty Etherington did support this theory on social meda today. I would still like to see an independent review of training and conditioning regimes to be sure. Without doubt, this latest bout of injuries are beyond a joke. They are a serious threat to our season and I would take anything between 10th and 12th place right now. But come on Slav, be really professional and bring an expert in from outside the club to conduct a genuine independent review of training and conditioning at the club.
Slaven on top of it. As usual. 🙂
Slaven Bilic’s decision to move the club’s training headquarters from Chadwell Heath to Rush Green surprised everybody associated with the club today.
He appeared to admit that the injury crisis as down to the training ground and that the time had come to move on to pastures news after player complaints down the years.
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