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Indeed.
I think Palace had about eight or nine regular starters ruled out when we played them last month.
When you see how out of condition our squad looks most of the time, compared to the opposition, it's not surprising really.
Like racehorses: thoroughbred, impractical for a long working life - but more expensive to shoot....
Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
As if the NHS will still be in existence when Bramley Moore is finally completed....
Exactly....Palace had 9 starting line up players out for weeks.
BrendanGOT
Player Valuation: £30m
Pretty sure United get loads of injuries to key players
Thomasc
Formerly known as By God I'm Blue
Your riding high in August, mid table in May
Will you all stop being sensible? Everton won this weekend, just let the man invent some random twaddle to moan about for a week without pointing out the obvious flaws in his whinge.
It seems worse because it’s our team but most clubs have a crappy injury record too. It’s not the pitch or bad luck, they’re just highly tuned athletes. They push their bodies to the limit to get peak fitness and IMO that puts you closer to an injury. They’re almost too fit for their own good.
chuffy
Player Valuation: £500k
This used to be a huge problem at spurs, to the point where Redknapp had to keep a second set of 11 players and still couldn't get by with 3 senior strikers and about 72 centre backs with an average age of 35.
Don't ask me how, but it's an issue solved (for the most part) by Pochettino. I think it could be argued that perhaps the fitter you are as a player, the smaller the likelihood you'll get injured? Just postulating, as fitness is the biggest change he brought in.
Of course injuries still happen, but they seem to be exponentially fewer in quantity and duration these days - but as has been previously mentioned, you tend not to notice the injury list of the teams you don't follow with such detail.
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