Neil Dawson
UTC Legend
Seems everyone is looking for sinister reasons to every issue the club has. Keeper has a poor game then neil moss gets it, team loses its Eddie's tactics, injuries then we overtrain! Unfortunately **** happens, I think in our championship winning season we had very few injuries, since weve had our fair share of ACLs not sure you can do anything about that.
Steve cook was a freak accident, Adam smith clobbered in a game, it's a physical sport!
But hey let's blame the clubs methods
Not blaming... as SDD points out nobody knows... just questioning.
Yes there are freak injuries... but these probably take us to the realms of other teams injury numbers. We seem to have way more than our fair share of hamstring, ligament and other muscle injuries which can be directly linked to over straining leading to weakness. It can also be pure coincidence of course. So you tend to look at it over a significant opinion which is why people are raising the question. It was raised last week and then on Friday we lost two more players to training injuries.
We also have a history of players who don’t make it back as expected, re-operations and breakdowns when back in training. It does mean people will question it.
The club said they investigated it last season and all I would hope is they brought in an independent body rather than sit the same folk down and ask them to police themselves.
There is no doubt our record in numbers and recovery is poor. Whether it is internally effected or not is up for debate but you can’t blame people for asking the question every year.