Injuries

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

I think we are back up to 9 injuries again - that would be bad enough for any team let alone a squad as small as ours and with players out of form like Klich and Harrison.

[BelfastAndy]

I'm feckd off reading about injuries and set-backs.

[Monaco_Totty]

I'm feckd off reading about injuries and set-backs.

Okay, how are Linfield doing nowadays under David Healy ?

Played hurling as a kid but never actually watched Gaelic football, with hurling got my fair share of whacks so playing junior football as a kid was a breeze until the bigger lads started dishing it out when I became 11.
Played in same hurling/football teams with my York school mate Matthew Kilgallon ex-Leeds defender as my protector.

[george_kaplan]

I think we are back up to 9 injuries again - that would be bad enough for any team let alone a squad as small as ours and with players out of form like Klich and Harrison.

Read someplace the new conspiracy kicking about (wrong choice of word, I know)! It’s all down to our newly laid pitches! Ohhh the wonders of the web, much preferred the green or pink read after the game.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Read someplace the new conspiracy kicking about (wrong choice of word, I know)! It’s all down to our newly laid pitches! Ohhh the wonders of the web, much preferred the green or pink read after the game.

Looks like Sam Greenwood is injured now too - that must take us back to about 10 or 11 injured - including all 5 capable of playing striker.

Llorente also out through suspension.

[spaldy]

Read someplace the new conspiracy kicking about (wrong choice of word, I know)! It’s all down to our newly laid pitches! Ohhh the wonders of the web, much preferred the green or pink read after the game.

I think many of us old timers can testify it's a whole lot harder to blow out a knee or rip muscles on a muddy bog of a pitch than a manicured pitch with good grip for the boots. Seems counter intuitive but really hard to get your leg locked one way when your body is moving the other on a muddy pitch. Just not enough traction.

Not saying it's the reason we have so many injured but it's probably a factor.

[spaldy]

PS- Artificial turf is the worst. I've seen so many knees blows out on these over the years. Hope they are never allowed in the FA

[george_kaplan]

Just down to rotten luck, never had this problem last couple seasons, training more or less the same. Maybe more concern for the well-being of player? Not rushing them back, who knows. Years back, heavy pitch, heavy ball, right old tackles, a lot tougher imo, I played lots.

[bathlad61]

And now it seems they are allowing Drameh to go to Cardiff on loan, yes he may get valuable game time, but surely to god, we need him and cover at RB - crazy idea.

[Monaco_Totty]

PS- Artificial turf is the worst. I've seen so many knees blows out on these over the years. Hope they are never allowed in the FA

For our eco-warriors & global grass connoisseurs.

Our new £300,000 pitch courtesy of Spurs appears to be nothing more than a fancy wig with added grass seed grown in a secret location by Grassmaster solutions who answered our challenge to provide perfect pitches.

https://www.grassmastersolutions.com...aster-overview

Local 'grass dealer' Ed Chappelow was called in to provide the full pitch reconstructions at ER/TA with a new irrigation and drainage system. Ed states that the construction of professional pitches has developed significantly since the days of simple soil pitches.

Professional pitches like ER & Leeds TA training grounds are now made of 125mm of gravel which drains the water, topped with 200mm of sand, a 100mm sand/soil mix and a 'hybrid-turf' consisting of stitched synthetic-fibres every one interwoven 2cm by 2cm and combined with organic grass. This provides ideal playing conditions and helps to maintain the grass. Over the first layer of sand the Pitch Heating is installed [36,500 meters of MDE piping] running the length of the pitch at 250mm intervals – enough piping to carry around 140,000 litres of warm water around the pitch.

This was connected to a self-contained boiler which houses the circulation pumps, shunt pump, expansion vessels and boiler. Allegedly Bielsa has the squad on exercise bikes for 2 hours pedalling daily which produces enough energy to heat the pitches and provide electricity to heat Lord Bamfords bath water & his hairdryer, so jobs a good 'un, states our Ed