Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Badfellow View Post
I think the only injuries that can be considered self inflicted are Hall,Morrison and Peltier,which many on here questioned when contracts were offered to them in the Summer.That argument I get.I'm not sure you can apply that to,like you say,Humphreys,Odoffin,Lindsay,Ferguson and Cafu.The 'small squad' idea doesn't wash with me either.ALL teams have to register 25 players.....end of! The injury situation has to be simply down to the fact that the squad as a whole has to over compete physically to attempt to match the opposition who,more often than not,are better players. For reference,the last time we were in League 1,we hardly had any injuries.
I don't think our players over compete physically at all, Rathbone puts a shift in but who else does? They don't look fit at all even the manager has said that the players are fatigued before the end of a game. Fergie and Lindsay were both injured at the start of the season, Fergie is at the backend of his career, has had long injuries last season as well and this one there was no idea what it was and he had to go to a specialist in germany, we could have left him out of the 25 knowng if he gets fit he could come in again in January, that is another place wasted. Sending McCart out on loan and Kioso were insane decisions, not saying they are first choice but in a 25 man squad they provided cover especially when we had 3 CBs out at tha time. Don' play the hindsight card as many people said the decisions were poor when they were made. The recruitment and squad selection decisions sit at MTs door, he got it wrong and unless the injured players come back quickly and turn our season around it will cost him. We need three or fours games unbeaten with a couple of wins to build believe and confidence, players won't rush back to play in a losing team at the bottom end of the league.