{"id":18333,"date":"2011-07-22T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18333"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"tate-ready-for-swanseas-premier-league-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/07\/22\/tate-ready-for-swanseas-premier-league-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Tate Ready For Swansea’s Premier League Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The full back says the team has never come back from pre-season fitter, buoyant for places in the Swansea team.<\/p>\n

"I remember when we were in League Two or League One, you would come back for pre-season and some of the lads would be out of shape.<\/p>\n

"It would then take three weeks for them to get back into shape, but it's not like that now.<\/p>\n

"Everyone has come back buzzing and everyone is desperate to get into the team.<\/p>\n

"It's the fittest I have seen the squad at the start of pre-season, and you can see everybody wants to be ready for the start of the season.<\/p>\n

"If you don't want to be ready when you're going into the Premier League, you shouldn't be playing football.<\/p>\n

"We haven't had that long a break but I don't think that will have any effect.<\/p>\n

"At this stage of pre-season, everyone looks a lot better than they would have done at this club a few years ago.<\/p>\n

"In a way the short break can help, because you don't have time to add any body fat or lose much fitness.<\/p>\n

"And I know a lot of the boys have been training hard over the summer.<\/p>\n

"Nobody wanted to come back unfit going into the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Swansea's players were ordered to relax after that dramatic day at Wembley — for a little while.<\/p>\n

"We were told to rest completely for two and a half weeks.<\/p>\n

"Then we started getting going again, gradually doing more sessions and building up towards pre-season.<\/p>\n

"Even on holiday, the lads were working on their fitness.<\/p>\n

"I rented a villa up in the mountains in Cyprus.<\/p>\n

"I went to the gym out there, but I also did a couple of mountain runs. I'm feeling really good now, and I think the rest of the lads are feeling the same."<\/p>\n

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The full back says the team has never come back from pre-season fitter, buoyant for places in the Swansea team. "I remember when we were in League Two or League One, you would come back for pre-season and some of the lads would be out of shape. "It would then take three weeks for them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}