Quote Originally Posted by magpie_mania View Post
I don't know if it's just me, but it seemed that we had less injuries. We certainly didn't seem to get so many niggly strains etc - they probably just carried on! In my first season (71/72) I could almost name the team every week.

Defence was:
Brindley - 41 games
Needham - 32 games
Stubbs - 43 games
Worthington - 46 games

In addition,
Bradd - 46 games
Jones 44 games (12 as sub)
Masson - 45 games
Nixon - 46 games (3 as sub)
Brown - 43 games (keeper)

I doubt we will get 8 players who average over 44 games each now.

Remember that on top of those games, Jimmy Sirrel would play full scale games in training every week (and there were reserve games in the league too).

In 70/71 when we won the league, 8 players played more than 40 games and another 3 played 37 each.

We used 17 players all season and 4 of them played 14 games between them.
And none of those players were ever rested because they were tired!