Sky Bet Championship: Andrea Orlandi says Blackpool training has been tough

Blackpool midfielder Andrea Orlandi has revealed manager Lee Clark has his bottom-of-the-table side taking part in gruelling training sessions during this international break.

Clark has not won any of the three games he has taken charge of since arriving at Bloomfield Road and the Seasiders, 10 points adrift of safety, have just one success in 17 games.

There needs to be a dramatic turnaround if the Tangerines are to avoid slipping down into the third tier at the end of this campaign, and Clark has his troops putting in the hard yards before next Saturday's contest against Bolton.

Writing in his blog for Barcelona-based website AM14.net, Orlandi said: "This week has been tough, very tough. We have worked non-stop, with lots of intensity and lots of running.

"When I was 20 I always finished first, now I just manage to finish, which is good enough! The new coach is trying everything to get us off the bottom."

Blackpool had been due to play a behind-closed-doors friendly against Wigan last Friday, but that match had to be scrapped following Latics' decision to sack Uwe Rosler.

Clark instead upped the ante in training, as Oraldni explained: "Lee Clark did his best to have a training session as similar as possible to a game. I am not sure if it was two hours and fifteen minutes or not but it felt like four to me.

"(There was) plenty of football and I like that but lots of physical training too. This can only be beneficial to the team and more even for me as I didn't have a proper pre-season and have had a few problems with injuries over the last few months."

Orlandi admits that he fully understands Clark's approach given Blackpool's current predicament.

"The reality is that our new coach is making us sweat," he noted.

"If we were Barca or Madrid and we won every week, maybe we wouldn't have to do this, but this is a necessity."