I'm sorry, but a professional organisation with so many injured people is unacceptable, bad luck is one thing, but over nearly 5 years of the same issues, it's not like they are over exerting themselves, it's time to be honest, the coaching set up is not good enough. These sick notes don't belong in a charlton shirt. It's not bad luck any more, that would be one or two, maybe three over a few years maybe, this is consistent. I get we are league one, but our physios are non league. "niggles" turn into 6 month injuries. the lies need to stop. I pay out for tickets to see a football team, not florence nightingales select 11.
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We seem to get our fair share of them whether we get more, less or about the same as other league 1 clubs.
Unless. You can get to the bottom of it having 4 injured strikers at the same time, you will never be able to achieve promotion and compete in the division above.
Even when we were briefly in the championship, didn’t we rack up like 15 injured players at the same time, which hurt us big time (we thought it was Bowyers style of play that was causing it).
At this time of day I don’t know what the answer is, you could say not recruiting injured players, but Burstow is just starting out.
The bloke has even said in interviews before now that he's barely ever been injured until now
So even if we try to avoid another Aneke or Inniss in the world
We're still going to get players who'll get injured.
Great shame.
Bad luck or something more fundamental?
Agree with an earlier post that if you sign the likes of Anneke you're asking for trouble but if this pattern continues the consistency required to get out of this league is never going to happen.
Is that really just bad luck? Or a curse!?! I will admit I am not exactly up on other teams injuries or whether that is the case for other teams in the league right now, but to me that's 8 (arguably) first choice players unavailable. To me something ain't right there.
We shouldn't hide behind that as an excuse for why we are in the position we have found ourselves in recent weeks, the tactics and set up, the replacements and the effort level has not been right, or good enough, but those are a separate set of issues for another thread
Here's what the Sheff Wed boss had to say updating on injuries;
"Moore said: “In terms of this weekend, Sam Hutchinson has trained, Lewis Gibson has had another week and Dominic Iorfa has come through an under-23s game, which is great.
“Chey Dunkley is back on the training ground with the players and next week we’ll one or two out on the training ground jogging and running."
and then heres what we get ;
“I don’t know if he’ll (Stockley) be available for the weekend.
“But if he is, he’ll be the only one. Aneke is a bit longer term, Washington is a bit closer. But not any time soon.”
what kind of update is that!?! Again... am I being too harsh here??
Edit to clarify - which response seems to provide clarity, sounds like it has come from a well run, professional outfit with good communication between management and the physio team - and a clear plan by them on a road map to returning players to action, and which looks like it was read off the back of a fag packet?
Jackson explained: “He said when he was opening up and sprinting he was feeling his hamstring a bit. He felt like it would go. I don’t think it actually did but he was feeling it enough that he couldn’t continue.
Which sounds like a relatively minor injury, rather than an actual tear?
Sorry to keep banging this drum but as I said in my OP, I pay to see a professional football team play, preferably at least the majority of the first team - if 80% of the first team are ruled out they don't refund me 80% of the ticket cost do they? It's a bit like paying out to see Elvis Presley and ending up getting Elvis Costello.
No offence to Elvis Costello fans btw