Of course injuries happen, but to shrug our shoulders and say the season we just had was bad luck is the naive thing to do, not the scrutinising of the medical staff I'm suggesting.
Wtf are you on about? I didn't bring the topic up, and I wasn't the only one discussing it. Piss off.
I think Warnock or someone said if your player’s totally fit according to the ‘ metrics / stats’ and is ready to play - give it another two weeks !!
Not true at all. Syd told us as a FACT that it's the medical staff to blame and they should all be just "sacked off". Problem solved. (oh god, what have I just done). ps I'm off out now, back in to watch TWS v Newcastle. Enjoy yourselves
No one's said it's just luck. As I've said, personally I think mistakes were made last summer which led to the injury situation. I think we signed players from a place with lower fitness standards and then had to rush them to be ready to play at Championship intensity without a proper pre-season to prepare them. I strongly suspect we'll sign far less players from Turkey this summer (if any) as a result.
I suppose I saw you saying "injuries can happen" as equating to something that we can't predict or manage. Again I look at Ally who played in the Championship the previous season as one who shouldn't have been impacted by any of the context you suggested, and even then with guys like Tetteh, that explains the initial injury not the second.
It's only my theory. In Tetteh's case, coming back from the first injury makes the second one more likely, it happens all the time. Same with Allahyar's second hamstring.
hamstring injuries are one of the most common injuries in any sport with sprinting its a huge muscle that goes through a huge amount of stress when a sprint is launched
The mental impact of muscle tear injuries can’t be understated imo. Seen a few comments these last few months on match day threads complaining that Allahyar doesn’t take a man on anymore. Yes, it’s frustrating when a winger doesn’t take a man on and instead passes it back but given he knackered his hamstring sprinting full throttle for the ball against Burnley early in the season, I don’t think I can blame him for playing overly cautious. Players with his physique especially often get muscle tears because they push themselves further than what their muscles are capable of.
i wonder if there's any correlation with hamstring injuries and travel time it'd need a vast amount of data collected and analyzed but i reckon due to the hamstrings size and purpose, pre workout conditioning could play a huge factor sitting too much could impede bloodflow slightly, what was the workload like in the 7 days prior to the tear, how much driving etc etc
It easy to say that with hindsight but when Allahyar got injured at Wigan, we were still very much in the relegation mix and he made a big difference. Tetteh's similar in that we're a much better side when he plays so we wanted him to play as many minutes as possible. That's always going to increase the risk of injury
45 appearances in promotion winning team. Maybe mostly from the bench. I'd take him for a year. Experience about the place and a proper ****house to help waste time, see games out.
You can only be so cautious though. They have all the data on every player. If his levels and load and every possible measure show that he's fully fit, what more can you do? You could always wait another week and another week but you have to play them again at some point and they could get an injury in that game or in the weeks that follow.
I think we should've just eased players back slower with minutes solely coming from the bench in the first few games/weeks. How they reintroduced Adama was fantastic. It's all hindsight though so it's complete bollocks really. I suspect the injury record next year will be fine, as they'll get a full and tough pre season and hopefully plenty of pre season games too
