Source: Team_Talk
Jefferies plotting tough pre-season
Jim Jefferies has warned Hearts they face a gruelling pre-season training camp as he bids to knock them into shape for the new campaign.[LNB] Jefferies will take his squad to his favoured summer base at Il Ciocco in Tuscany for a seven-day stay beginning on July 10.[LNB]The players will endure double training sessions each day and a local closed-door friendly match has also been pencilled in to round off the week.[LNB]"It's a place I know very well and the facilities are superb," Jefferies told Hearts News.[LNB]"The folk are very friendly and can't do enough for you and the food's excellent as well.[LNB]"I took Hearts there the last time I was here and also went a number of times with Kilmarnock.[LNB]"It's an ideal base for a pre-season training camp and we'll be working the boys hard, that is assured.[LNB]"One thing's for sure - the players will be fit by the time the season starts."[LNB]
