Ryland Morgans joins coaching team

[gkmacca]

Ryland Morgans training with the Wales squad​

Brendan Rodgers has returned to Swansea City to take a fourth member of his old Liberty Stadium backroom to Anfield.
Rodgers quit South Wales for Merseyside in June and immediately secured deals for analyst Chris Davies, performance consultant Glen Driscoll and assistant Colin Pascoe.
But he has now appointed former Swans head of sports science Ryland Morgans to his coaching team at Liverpool, pictured taking training today at Melwood having left the Liberty on Friday.
Morgans, who doubled as the fitness coach with the Wales national side under both Gary Speed and Chris Coleman, opted to leave Swansea to "develop his career elsewhere".
Morgans joined Swansea in August 2010, leaving Fulham to link up with his hometown team and was part of the Rodgers backroom that helped the Swans to the promotion.
But he appears to have been installed into a conditioning role at Liverpool, snapped just a week after head of conditioning and fitness Darren Burgess left his post.
There had been some overlapping of Morgans' role at Swansea following Michael Laudrup's appointment of ex-Monaco fitness guru Osca Garcia in the summer as fitness and conditioning coach.
It is not yet clear whether Swansea will look to fill the head of sports science post vacated by Morgans.​

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[Mystic]

This explains that other dude buggering off.

 

[Dirkus_Circus]

Does sport science=fitness coach?

He looks like he plays rugby.

 

[Fallon]

That's a twat of a name.

 

[gkmacca]

So the manager's name sounds like a description of what he does, and now the fitness coach's name sounds like it's missing an apostrophe. Chaos. Utter chaos.

 

[the count]

Anybody else becoming just a little bit uncomfortable with all these Welsh dudes at our club?

 

[peterhague]

Ryland Morgans sounds like a character from a Mills and Boon novel.

 

[gkmacca]

Anybody else becoming just a little bit uncomfortable with all these Welsh dudes at our club?

Yes. They're best in moderation, the Welsh.

 

[Y1]

Liverpool (Scottish, Irish & Welsh) Club

 

[gkmacca]

In that order!

 

[tombrown]

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Ryland Morgans training with the Wales squad​

..., pictured taking training today at Melwood . .... ​

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Eh??​

 

[Red Mullet]

Where's Ryland4pm in this thread?

 

[gene hughes]

Ryland Morgans sounds like a character from a Mills and Boon novel.

And you know this because....

 

[peterhague]

And you know this because....

I've read several of them. They make light, amusing, reading.

 

[tony]

I've read several of them. They make light, amusing, reading.

😵

 

[peterhague]

They wouldn't be my choice, but back when I was about 14 my dad took us on a particularly strange holiday to Spain, to a part of the country where there were no other tourists and which effectively ended up being a tour of the cathedrals of Galicia. A lot of the time we were bored to tears and the only light relief was the house's large collection of M&B books. They're a great laugh if you approach them in the proper spirit of detached irony. I'll always remember one of the heroines offering the great line of, 'I had better pull myself together, or he'll take me for a half-wit'.

Quite so, woman.

 

[RedStar]

Not quite sure how to feel about this. I like Rodgers and every manager brings a certain amount of his own team with them but we seem to be losing an awful of backroom personnel since the summer. Its understandable Rodgers wants to bring certain people in with him that understands his methods etc but we spent years and millions putting together world class sports science and youth development departments only to rip them asunder when they are starting to prove the wisdom of the initial investment

 

[gkmacca]

He did an interview early on where he seemed to suggest he'd be doing the opposite, pointing out that he'd gone to Swansea and pretty much kept the existing staff. This bloke, however, has a decent enough reputation so it seems a good move. I don't know anything about Pascoe, but I guess Rodgers does most of the coaching anyway so maybe Pascoe is here more to be a sounding board.

 

[RedStar]

He did an interview early on where he seemed to suggest he'd be doing the opposite, pointing out that he'd gone to Swansea and pretty much kept the existing staff. This bloke, however, has a decent enough reputation so it seems a good move. I don't know anything about Pascoe, but I guess Rodgers does most of the coaching anyway so maybe Pascoe is here more to be a sounding board.

I remember that interview too, and I remember thinking it was a good idea, thats what concerns me about all of the sackings/replacements, we had some incompetent people in positions they were not suited for, but we also had some world class people who were head hunted at great cost for specific roles. Im not against this guy specifically but we seem to be turning over alot of staff and in any business thats a bad idea, but we seem to be jettisoning some of the most sought after people in the business for a bunch of lackies.