{"id":20037,"date":"2015-07-24T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=20037"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"monk-happy-with-reading-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2015\/07\/24\/monk-happy-with-reading-workout\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk Happy With Reading Workout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monk was speaking after the game at Adams Park and ahead of the Swans second friendly in two days as they prepared to face Nottingham Forest on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>With just two weeks left until the new season the Swans are unbeaten in three pre-season games so far which has got to be pleasing for a boss who is looking to try and secure a better finish for his side next time around after the record breaking exploits of last season.<\/p>\n<p>He said after the game \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was a good workout for us<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reading are a good team, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had some good pre-season games with them over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The minutes on the pitch is the most important thing for the players. Quite a few of the players got 90 minutes tonight, so it was a good workout. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been working in a really good way during pre-season. Of course you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to win games, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more about the fitness side of it and getting match sharpness.<\/p>\n<p>We had a lot of the ball tonight, which was good, and could have nicked it at the end, but it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about the result.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about the players\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 fitness, and I think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get even sharper in the next two weeks ahead of the new season.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swans TV - Reaction: Monk on Reading 1-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/45tEpA8O0TU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><#readingfc><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monk was speaking after the game at Adams Park and ahead of the Swans second friendly in two days as they prepared to face Nottingham Forest on Saturday. With just two weeks left until the new season the Swans are unbeaten in three pre-season games so far which has got to be pleasing for a [&hellip;]<\/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-20037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20037","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=20037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}