Why so many injuries?

[LEONARD]

My eyes are injured watching this s**t every other week.

 

[SiEdmo]

at least its not like under Roberto, the amount of soft tissue injuries we would get while being managed by a qualified physio was astounding

does appear to be more ACL injuries these days than ever before, remember when it used to be near career ending, well it wasn't like it was happening every week then like it seems to nowadays

 

[Toffe3m4n]

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.

Essentially this is it for me. The less fit you are the more likely you'll overextend and hurt yourself. Our fitness conditioning has just never been that good, so it's little wonder that our most 'dynamic' players tend to explode at some point.

 

[Bluebonic]

We get so many injuries because our football makes Jesus weep, which in turn upsets God, who then inflicts the 10 footballing plagues on us, of which BFS is the 8th!

 

[toffeejack]

It's the same at every club. We just notice it more as we watch them every week.

It's not though, the RS will never have a list that long of severe injuries in their history. Their fab 4 for example never seemed to be injured.

 

[brigadier]

browning out for the season at sunderland, wtf is going on.

 

[Bebeto]

It’s not only the amount of injuries we have. It’s injuries to key players...record signing bolasie last year...Sigurdsson record signing this year! With that you can add other key players badly affected by injuries like McCarty, Funes, Baines and Coleman...bet you that if Salah had a bad injury this year there is no way that Liverpool would be in a top 4 position...

 

[LEONARD]

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

Total injury record over the past five seasons, from the clubs who have been ever-presents in the PL the past five seasons.

We're somewhere in the upper-middle with 89 injuries; five clubs have more. Not surprisingly Arsenal are up there; as are other Champions League / Euro League clubs who play a lot more games through the season. Interestingly Chelsea seem to get off pretty light with injuries - maybe due to a bigger squad / greater ability to rotate the playing XI?

Anyways, looks like we do get more than our fair share of injuries; however we're nowhere near as bad as Arsenal. Arguably though, due to our small-ish squads over the past few years, the number of injuries we have had has impacted us more.

 

[billyblue80]

Our players are mostly old

 

[everton1953]

The really bad luck has been the injuries to key players like Baines and Seamus. Now maybe Siggy is out for a few weeks, although it may not be that bad. Players we can most do without like Davies, Schneiderlin, Gueye, Cuco, Holgate always seem to be available. Not that I wish for any of them or anyone for that matter to be injured. The loss of the key players hurts us the most, because the quality in the squad is so thin.

 

[Toffeemeister]

Off the top of my head since the horror show of 2009.

Arteta - ACL
Yakubu - ACL
Jagielka -ACL
Anichebe - Medial ligaments and broken leg
Gosling ACL
Barkley - broken leg
Hibbert - rare virus
Besic - ACL
Gibson - everything
Osman - missed half a season
Pienaar - missed a whole season
Kone -ACL
Oviedo broken leg
Barkley - ruptured hamstring
Baines - ruptured calf
Coleman - double leg break
McCarthy - double leg break
Funes Mori - ACL
Bolasie ACL
Mangala - Knee ligaments
Siggurdson - knee injury

No other club has a list like this. It’s truly horrific, what is going wrong? Is it poor medical staff, rank bad luck, or because we used to buy injury prone players at cheaper prices? Is it something to do with our playing style?

Even the kids have received some unbelievably bad injuries in the youth team too.

Either way if we carry on like this success on the pitch will never happen.

Wow I'm sure that is worse than any other club.

 

[FC sexy xxx]

Forgot about Hibbert getting Malaria or whatever it was. Everton that.

thats his own fault for living in huyton

 

[ArtetaMoney]

That Yakubu injury was horrible, he was a boss slotter our Yak. He had unbelievable composure for a 17 year old.

 

[SerenityNigh]

..not sure how many have been on the pitch at Goodison but it is very firm. The pitches at USM FF are exactly the same even after a soaking. They don’t forgive and i’m certain it contributes to the amount of knee injuries because studs get wedged into the ground.

That's actually very easy to test, just compare injuries of EFC players home and away, and compare injuries of visiting players to Goodison. If the pitch is contributing to injuries, you'll see both elevated rates of injury to EFC players and visiting players (although this probably won't be as high) when playing at Goodison vs other venues. If you look at 10 or more years of data, that should rule out variations, and you'll have an answer.

Some nerd in the Goodison back office probably already has that data. If they don't, they need to be all fired.