Injuries and player conditioning

[Toffee90]

Watching the spawn across the park come back again with a late equaliser, one thing is sticking out like a sore thumb at the moment to me. Clearly their first 11 is a well oiled machine, but I am astounded by the lack of even minor injuries they are facing. They are playing twice a week, and yet are running through walls for the cause. Last season was the same, their front three and defence battled through 50/60 games.

Meanwhile, every single week you can count on a couple of our key players being 'injured'. One week it's Mina, then Gomes, Delph the next, then Walcott's got a niggle. Long term injury's Bernard and Gbanim, who I firmly believe are both top 6 players. We just can't get a break. It's chronic.

What do we surmise is the reasoning for this?
Is it simply poor recruitment? Poor conditioning? Medical staff poor?

Or are we simply unlucky?

Either way it's bizarre and sickening. It's like they have opened pandora's box of football.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I have no idea about the injuries.

But we could definitely be fitter. We are very often completely dominated in terms of energy.

 

[Joey66]

It depends on the conditioner Gomes puts on his hair - if he can find a blue shirt, and he looks better with Tom Davies who drives us forwards at least to stop the tippy tappy crap .....

 

[Cels]

Maybe it's just a case of good luck and things going your way. Didn't Leicester City go through their campaign with little or no injuries when they won the Premier League? How many clubs have won the League over the years having had a load of injured first-team players missing?

 

[firefighterblue]

Watching the spawn across the park come back again with a late equaliser, one thing is sticking out like a sore thumb at the moment to me. Clearly their first 11 is a well oiled machine, but I am astounded by the lack of even minor injuries they are facing. They are playing twice a week, and yet are running through walls for the cause. Last season was the same, their front three and defence battled through 50/60 games.

Meanwhile, every single week you can count on a couple of our key players being 'injured'. One week it's Mina, then Gomes, Delph the next, then Walcott's got a niggle. Long term injury's Bernard and Gbanim, who I firmly believe are both top 6 players. We just can't get a break. It's chronic.

What do we surmise is the reasoning for this?
Is it simply poor recruitment? Poor conditioning? Medical staff poor?

Or are we simply unlucky?

Either way it's bizarre and sickening. It's like they have opened pandora's box of football.

We have had 2 atrocious pre seasons on the run now. It's like the players are still not up to the required fitness levels till xmas

 

[big nev lookalike]

Might be something to do with the mentality of players. If you are winning games and want to stay in the team then niggly injuries don’t matter, you play through them. Also if you’re playing 2 games a week then the training is less intensive than if you play one game a week.

 

[Goat]

Steriods.

PEDs

You name it.

 

[chrismpw]

Watching the spawn across the park come back again with a late equaliser, one thing is sticking out like a sore thumb at the moment to me. Clearly their first 11 is a well oiled machine, but I am astounded by the lack of even minor injuries they are facing. They are playing twice a week, and yet are running through walls for the cause. Last season was the same, their front three and defence battled through 50/60 games.

Meanwhile, every single week you can count on a couple of our key players being 'injured'. One week it's Mina, then Gomes, Delph the next, then Walcott's got a niggle. Long term injury's Bernard and Gbanim, who I firmly believe are both top 6 players. We just can't get a break. It's chronic.

What do we surmise is the reasoning for this?
Is it simply poor recruitment? Poor conditioning? Medical staff poor?

Or are we simply unlucky?

Either way it's bizarre and sickening. It's like they have opened pandora's box of football.

Drugs.

American owners, prepared to cheat/cast sportsmanship aside, loads of money, funding research into new stimulants/steroids - can't be detected until a test comes out for them.

Worked for lance Armstrong.

 

[Blue Juice]

I've thought this too. We very rarely play with long periods of intensity and yet it seems that we're playing 3 games a week at 100%

 

[Eggs]

...think this is more to do with good players and character than it is to do with fitness. Those of us fortunate enough to follow Everton in the mid-80s will recall the times we won games late on. Character, attitude and the fear your reputation has on the opposition.

Don’t think it’s fitness, I think it’s belief.

 

[Big Sams Little Pecker]

Like everyone else about the club, our medical and conditioning professionals are probably a gang of incompetent clowns.

 

[KaiserEFC]

Steriods.

PEDs

You name it.

Yeah but every single team is using those let’s be honest here. Doping isn’t exactly mentioned or screened against in football as it is in many other sports

 

[Goat]

Yeah but every single team is using those let’s be honest here. Doping isn’t exactly mentioned or screened against in football as it is in many other sports

We defo bought ours from some dodgy fella at the back of the pub.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Their keeper missed the first 8 games, matip is goosed. Are you blind?

 

[KaiserEFC]

We defo bought ours from some dodgy fella at the back of the pub.

Oh for sure. And you KNOW that if our players are being tested we haven’t got the grade A Russian stuff and aren’t providing the blood transfusions to cover our tracks. We’ll get booted out the league.