I hope we have a big clear out next season, Young, Nelsen, Derry, Hill, Bothroyd, Hulse, Dyer and Cerny all have their contracts expiring (at least I think so but 1 or 2 may have a year more) and should not be renewed. 5 out of the 8 will be at least 34 then.
Point has been made - but we bought old players and this is the situation we are in - scary thing is that two more physical games and who knows how much worse it could be. Not just 6 out - but more - and they take longer to heal. An issue must also be the physical readiness of the team - do we need to lift our backroom team performance - fitter players get injured less?
Hughes is well know for having fit strong teams but when players get past 30 they cant take that kind of training plus playing twice a week.
It should be more than enough. We have this every season. However it is disturbing how we manage to pick up so many players who are crocked all the time.
Not saying that you or current sports scientific thinking's wrong WLLx3 but I've yet to be convinced about this. Seems to me that fitter players get injured more. Never had all the tarsal and cruciate injuries (not to mention the heart stuff and/or deaths). In my not so learned view, a certain amount of fitness and physical development training is necessary BUT there's a tipping point somewhere in the mix, beyond which we shouldn't venture.
There was a story about that a while ago, think it was a BBC feature on the website. There is a limit to when the training is useful because your body can handle being pushed/trained to 95% of it's potential and held there for a lot longer than it can handle being right on it's maximum limit. In the olden days before all the sports science came in players were only training themselves up to say 90% of what they could, so on a basic point the aerobic limits kicked in before the physical ones did and they don't cause injuries as much. Players these days are trained closer to 100% because the extra 2-3% in performance can make the difference between winning and losing and they've just pushed each other on as one club went further and the rest caught up.
