The injury thread...

Odubajo , Mason & Hernandez would improve this team immensely big losses.

 

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.

 

No they wouldn't. They would improve the shareholder's position.

 

True.

 

And I'm pretty sure we had 11/12 players injured at various points.

 

Usually clubs won't give such assurances, but what Leo told Abramovich privately you never know I guess.

 

Lets be honest, were they fit they'd have been sold in the summer so we'd be no better off.

 

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We wouldn't , no...

 

Mason wouldbt have been, purely down to the fact nobody would buy until he had proved he was over an injury like that

 

Well, that was a short two weeks: http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/football/hull-city-receive-timely-injury-736571

 

After the international break = two weeks.

As you were.

 

Fantastic news! I hope the first home game he's back we forget all the allam bollox and fill the place to sing his name

 

"It's quite an important part of the body"

No ****!

 

Of course they had time to plan, doesn't make the injuries any less unfortunate.

 

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.

 

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.