by Millsy »
01 Aug 2022 15:28
Nameless Millsy Another season
Another set of ridiculous injuries
Another set of ridiculous excuses
Change manager, players, coaching staff all we want. If we don't have a properly resourced medical/sport science side it all goes to pot.
I asked this last season and no one could answer it:
For each injury, how was it caused, what could have been done to prevent it, how did recovery compare to similar injuries at other clubs ?
I don’t actually think we have the answers but it would help understand the situation if we did . Joao’s latest for example looked an utter fluke, just landed really awkwardly. Dann seems unable to get to match fitness, so is there just an underlying issue that will not be overcome. Azeez seems incredibly fragile, does he need something ‘fixing’ rather than just being patched up ?
Would love to get a really solid analysis of our injuries.
There’s a fans forum coming up, might just ask the men in charge directly…..
I agree it would be nice to have some answers but no one is going to go through them all one by one and give you an in-depth analysis, and neither would they be able to even if they had all the info. The broad stats speak for themselves that there is a problem.
We can ask but will get the same crap answer from the club.
There are sooo many factors to this. Obviously two broad aspects to this: prevention and cure. Cure needs a decent number of physios, decent physios, decent medical consultancy, decent protocols for when to escalate treatment/send to specialists, support for manager not to put players back in quickly etc. Prevention: decent nutrition, sports science, training protocols (warm-up/cool-down regimes, stretches etc etc), decent medicals before we get players in... decent player rotation etc etc etc.
There is no way in the world one can pinpoint what has happened with every single player and demonstrate they are all freak injuries. Even obvious freaks like a bad tackle in a game or falling down stairs are often a symptom of multifactorial underlying issues.
If I were running a club with this crisis this would be up there in bold red on my risk register and I'd get it sorted immediately. Get in consultants to sort out the issue. Get extra physios, different/additional specialists/fitness coaches/sports scientists etc. I wouldn't just leave it, which is what seems to have happened so far.