Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Badfellow View Post
It is always worth remembering when discussing our injuries that ALL clubs have to submit a 25 man squad so the 'bigger squad' argument is put to bed there and then. The 'better squad'' argument is a different matter and that is where our recruitment abilities need to be looked at with regards to signing players with awful track records with games played over recent seasons.Other clubs have injuries too......we are not alone.These are factors that may well be mitigated against MT if results don't improve over the next month.
I think we'd all like some explanation as to why we get so many of the same type of injuries (predominantly hamstrings) and why some of our players immediately cry off when they "feel a bit of tightness" or "feel a bit of an ache."
If the manager isn't concerned about these issues, he should be.
Also don't forget that MT asked for, and got, a significant investment to bring the training pitches up to the same standard as the NYS pitch and this was supposed to alleviate the persistent injury problems. It hasn't and if anything, the situation has become worse.
Something just isn't right and it can't all be down to bad luck.