Pulis tells Fuller to lose weight

[Twan]

Stoke striker Ricardo Fuller has said he has been told to lose weight by Potters manager Tony Pulis.

The 29-year-old was Stoke's leading scorer with 11 goals last season, but has yet to find the net in the Premier League this term.

Fuller told BBC Stoke: "The gaffer said that I've gained a bit of weight and that I need to lose some.

"I drink a lot of protein shakes and things like that. I need the weight because my main strength is my power."

Fuller struggled for match fitness during the tail end of last season after dislocating his right shoulder in the 2-0 defeat at Sunderland in February.

A long spell with the Jamaican national team during the summer limited his pre-season fitness programme and Fuller believes he is still striving to get back to his best.

"I know I need to pick my fitness up because I didn't have a proper pre-season," he added.

"In games, the lads keep putting the ball in the corners so I just keep chasing after it.

"I know that I need to get some running done. When I'm on the pitch I just run and run to try and make something out of nothing for the team."

[OJ]

what long spell with ntl team? da bredda ya always a tell lie.. should he not be fit if he was with the ntl team

[Karl]

Willi Boo took an unnecessay dig at the national coaches and the national program. I wonder if he holds any grudges?

[Shatta]

Fuller along with Stew Peas and Claude Davis looked as if they were getting too big when I saw them at the Gold Cup match vs Canada in LA.

I think losing some weight will help his game as he has maybe gone over to power over finesse a little too much.

It shouldn't be a problem for him.

When you play in the EPL and you come back and look at the national set up. How could you not take it for a joke when you are used to being organised day in and day out?

How could you not take it for a joke when you notice say dem man deh not even a try to be better?

I mean seriously now?
Its now 2009 and we went to the world cup in 1998. How long it takes for us to learn?

[Assasin]

How much training unnu think the man dem do? One game against Cayman and then the Gold cup. The camps were mostly local players who never played

[Peter R]

A long spell with the Jamaican national team during the summer limited his pre-season fitness programme and Fuller believes he is still striving to get back to his best.

So who is the author of this opinion? If true it's a really sad indictment of the national set-up. One would think a "long spell" might translate to superb fitness rather than the opposite... ahh bwoyyyy