My manager asked me to draw an ELEPHANT in a team meeting – but there’s a good reason behind bizarre request

KELLEN FISHER was asked to gully an ELEPHANT by Norwich brag Johannes Hoff Thorup successful beforehand of stunned team-mates.

But the Canaries right-back, 20, says determination was a method to the madness arsenic he revealed the Dane’s mode of working.

Fisher explained: “Everyone’s striving to bash good since the caller manager came successful during the summer. Each time he’s asking america to beryllium consistent.

“We had a gathering and helium got maine up to gully an elephant.

“After doing so, helium asked however bully I thought it was? I told him, ‘Not very’.

“And past the manager asked, ‘If you practised it every day, however bully would your elephant be?’

“I replied, ‘Pretty good’. He said, ‘In six months, your elephant volition beryllium perfect’.

“He was comparing practising drafting an elephant to what we’re doing here.

“We’ve conscionable got to keep moving hard and keeping our standards precocious to achieve better results.

“It’s conscionable the mode this manager explains things, it’s eye-opening.

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“Going up to gully an elephant connected the committee and comparing that to football isn’t thing I was reasoning about!”

Although Norwich are little mid-table arsenic they question to West Brom on Saturday, this has inactive been a breakthrough fewer months for the rookie.

Fisher, who was in non-league past year, has made 10 Championship starts this word and earned a archetypal England Under-21 squad call-up.

It has been a whirlwind since helium joined Norwich successful the summer of 2023 from Bromley.

Fisher was expected to be playing for the Canaries’ under-21s for a mates of years.

Yet helium was rapidly eating with then-club proprietor Delia Smith and enactment successful the archetypal squad by ex-boss David Wagner.

And Fisher said: “Delia invited maine and my household for a repast earlier a crippled to get to cognize us, asking wherever I’d been and worldly similar that. She wanted to marque america consciousness welcome.

“I don’t deliberation she physically cooked it but the nutrient was truthful good, possibly she did! We had steak pie, mash and gravy.

“She gave maine a cooking publication and signed it, which I’ve fixed to my mum due to the fact that she’s a fan of hers.”

Within six weeks, Fisher was handed his debut and acceptable up Jonathan Rowe’s last-minute victor astatine QPR.

Fisher went connected to marque different 2 starts and came disconnected the seat six times.

He admitted: “I struggled to accommodate to this level for about  six months but everyone helped maine settee in.

“It was large moving with Wagner. I convey him for giving maine my debut. I truly enjoyed moving for him.”

Under Thorup, since starting successful the 4-1 triumph against Watford successful September, the youngster has been an ever-present.

Fisher was gutted the different week erstwhile his equalising ‘goal’ successful a 3-3 epic with Middlesbrough was fixed arsenic an ain extremity to keeper Seny Dieng.

The right-back’s slightly miscued transverse appeared to beryllium heading successful earlier the Boro stopper palmed it into the net.

Fisher said: “I thought it was excavation but past suspected it mightiness beryllium taken away.

“I enactment the shot crossed the beforehand portion and it went a spot much to the close than expected. It’s gone successful disconnected the keeper and the place erupted. It was a large moment.”

Fisher is yet to people successful his elder career, which besides included 2 indebtedness spells astatine Welling and Cray Wanderers portion astatine Bromley.

But helium utilized to beryllium an attacker until Bromley academy manager Steve Harris switched him to right-back.

Fisher said: “I was playing as a winger for the under-21s and randomly 1 crippled helium said, ‘I privation you to play right-back’.

“At the clip it was short-term because, aft a fewer games, I was a winger again.

“But past during the off- play Steve told me, ‘Right- backmost is your presumption present — and you’re not changing’. I’ve been determination ever since.”

Fisher rose through the ranks astatine Bromley aft making his debut successful an FA Trophy crippled astatine Dover, aged 17, successful 2021.

And he credited his ex-boss Andy Woodman for helping him turn into a antheral — including a half-time rollicking aft a mediocre performance.

Fisher said: “We were winning 1-0 successful a crippled and, earlier half-time, conceded 2 stoppage-time goals.

“He told maine I wasn’t being assertive capable and that I was playing similar a small boy.

“At the clip I was a small lad but I understood what helium meant. It was the archetypal clip helium had a existent spell astatine me.

“But the next time helium pulled maine successful to cheque if I was OK. In football, you bash sometimes request a small push.”

There is nary doubting that Fisher is simply a immense endowment with truthful overmuch potential.

Coaches and ex-team-mates astatine Bromley told SunSport they judge helium volition marque it to the Premier League.

Maybe the youngster who started his football travel for section Bromley Sunday league broadside Kingfisher is destined to go a existent King Fisher.