The injury thread...

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Odubajo , Mason & Hernandez would improve this team immensely big losses.
 
askewshair said:
Ok, hadn't realised mods are keeping it upto date. I did initially think we were relatively injury free at the moment, but 8 is a lot. I've got use to not having the three longer terms and suspect Abel will be off before he has time to get proper match fit. And still stand by the fact that they knew about these four injuries before the end of the window and had time to plan replacements and also plan a balanced squad which would cover other to be expected injuries.
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Having said that, over the last few years, I do accept we have been ridiculously unfortunate with injuries. Bruceys first relegation season was horrendous. It was overlooked on forums and Brucey to his credit didn't blame that. I remember posting on City Independent about the number of injuries that season. Someone posted a league table showing that we were just halfway in terms of injuries. Dissecting that though, the teams we were realistically competing against (and I included pretty much the whole bottom half) without exception had far fewer injuries.
It wasn't just about numbers though. It was bizarre how our key signing (Snodgrass) was injured 10 minutes into the season; anyone showing any form got injured.. Jelavic started off superb, got injured and never (ever) recovered. We had a squad to cover most eventualities, ie 2 per position but we'd have two in the same position getting injured at the same time. I vaguely recall 3 centre backs getting injured within 15 minutes (?) possibly against Liverpool. Also at left back Brady, Rosenior, Figeuro (whatever) all injured within a couple of games. I did think that season was quite unique in that sense. Not many particularly agreed with me.
I believe that was our strongest ever squad, had we survived we could well have established ourselves.
 
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askewshair said:
Having said that, over the last few years, I do accept we have been ridiculously unfortunate with injuries. Bruceys first relegation season was horrendous. It was overlooked on forums and Brucey to his credit didn't blame that. I remember posting on City Independent about the number of injuries that season. Someone posted a league table showing that we were just halfway in terms of injuries. Dissecting that though, the teams we were realistically competing against (and I included pretty much the whole bottom half) without exception had far fewer injuries.
It wasn't just about numbers though. It was bizarre how our key signing (Snodgrass) was injured 10 minutes into the season; anyone showing any form got injured.. Jelavic started off superb, got injured and never (ever) recovered. We had a squad to cover most eventualities, ie 2 per position but we'd have two in the same position getting injured at the same time. I vaguely recall 3 centre backs getting injured within 15 minutes (?) possibly against Liverpool. Also at left back Brady, Rosenior, Figeuro (whatever) all injured within a couple of games. I did think that season was quite unique in that sense. Not many particularly agreed with me.
I believe that was our strongest ever squad, had we survived we could well have established ourselves.
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And I'm pretty sure we had 11/12 players injured at various points.
 
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askewshair said:
Ok, hadn't realised mods are keeping it upto date. I did initially think we were relatively injury free at the moment, but 8 is a lot. I've got use to not having the three longer terms and suspect Abel will be off before he has time to get proper match fit. And still stand by the fact that they knew about these four injuries before the end of the window and had time to plan replacements and also plan a balanced squad which would cover other to be expected injuries.
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Of course they had time to plan, doesn't make the injuries any less unfortunate.
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
Of course they had time to plan, doesn't make the injuries any less unfortunate.
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Yes it does. Previous seasons, we have had injuries once the window has closed. It means we can't bring anyone in, so we have a depleted squad. That is a sickener when it happens.
The last few weeks, it seems we consistently have had around 8 injuries. When the last transfer window closed, we had FOUR long term. We either planned for replacing them or decided we didn't need to. It leaves us probably averaging four other fairly short term injuries. That is probably below average. We should expect those and again should have planned for it.
That is not unfortunate, it's bad management.
I'm probably cursing it but we have also been very fortunate that Daws has been ever present. We had not planned for that.
 
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askewshair said:
Yes it does. Previous seasons, we have had injuries once the window has closed. It means we can't bring anyone in, so we have a depleted squad. That is a sickener when it happens.
The last few weeks, it seems we consistently have had around 8 injuries. When the last transfer window closed, we had FOUR long term. We either planned for replacing them or decided we didn't need to. It leaves us probably averaging four other fairly short term injuries. That is probably below average. We should expect those and again should have planned for it.
That is not unfortunate, it's bad management.
I'm probably cursing it but we have also been very fortunate that Daws has been ever present. We had not planned for that.
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I was only thinking that the other day, all clubs have varying degrees of long term injuries, and any good management team would factor in 3 or 4 missing at any one time. But as always we seems to have a dearth of players to cover when it does happen.
 
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