User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 461: That Perfume is for Somebody, Review./@comment-25324252-20151109094933

"Reappearance of the Grand Magic Games fighters. I'm really glad Mashima didn't just throw away these characters. And a lot of people seemed to think that they'd be nothing but fodder after this time skip and I'm betting that this is not the case."

Silly Jakuwhore, of course they are fodder now. They didn't train! We haven't seen them train since the GMG so obviously that means that they didn't and just stood in place for a year letting themselves get weaker. This is why Gildarts is the weakest person in the entire manga because he hasn't trained in 7 years and its not possible to get stronger when you are his age