SIZE MATTERS AS CITY BUILD POWERFUL SIDE
ANDY Thorn has deliberately beefed up his squad as he prepares to launch a full-on assault back to the Championship.
The Coventry City boss has already recruited five players who are six foot or over and the Brazilian triallist, Bruno Cazarine, will be a sixth if he is signed up by the Sky Blues.
The 29-year-old who was leading scorer for the last two seasons with Australian A-League club Sydney FC, also knows as the Sky Blues, certainly packs a punch.
Loan striker Callum Ball is a well-built 6ft 3ins, as are the 6ft 2ins centre-backs Kevin Malaga and William Edjenguele, the leaner and more athletic Reece Brown and midfielder Kevin Kilbane.
Diminutive midfielder John Fleck bucks the height trend at just 5ft 6 ins tall but more than makes up for it with his stocky physique.
“You need some height and steel in your team but you also need some people who can play and they can all play,“ insisted Thorn, who is confident he's got the balance right with a strong spine to the team.
“When you look at other teams who have got promoted in the past they have all got height in their team and all look strong boys and it's important that we have a presence about us. You need that in whatever league you are in but we also play football as well.
“It's what we have gone for.
There has been a lot of work gone into it over the summer to prepare for what we have needed and when we have got targets it has been brilliant.
“It's totally different when you walk out onto the training pitch now. There's competition for places now and there's a real size about us as well, which is good.
“I think we're a different proposition now. I was chatting with Shawsy and Carso and we look a unit now, which has always been our aim with good footballers as well.“
ANDY Thorn has deliberately beefed up his squad as he prepares to launch a full-on assault back to the Championship.
The Coventry City boss has already recruited five players who are six foot or over and the Brazilian triallist, Bruno Cazarine, will be a sixth if he is signed up by the Sky Blues.
The 29-year-old who was leading scorer for the last two seasons with Australian A-League club Sydney FC, also knows as the Sky Blues, certainly packs a punch.
Loan striker Callum Ball is a well-built 6ft 3ins, as are the 6ft 2ins centre-backs Kevin Malaga and William Edjenguele, the leaner and more athletic Reece Brown and midfielder Kevin Kilbane.
Diminutive midfielder John Fleck bucks the height trend at just 5ft 6 ins tall but more than makes up for it with his stocky physique.
“You need some height and steel in your team but you also need some people who can play and they can all play,“ insisted Thorn, who is confident he's got the balance right with a strong spine to the team.
“When you look at other teams who have got promoted in the past they have all got height in their team and all look strong boys and it's important that we have a presence about us. You need that in whatever league you are in but we also play football as well.
“It's what we have gone for.
There has been a lot of work gone into it over the summer to prepare for what we have needed and when we have got targets it has been brilliant.
“It's totally different when you walk out onto the training pitch now. There's competition for places now and there's a real size about us as well, which is good.
“I think we're a different proposition now. I was chatting with Shawsy and Carso and we look a unit now, which has always been our aim with good footballers as well.“