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Injuries

ZeroTheHero said:
Hmm, so the options are: KR can't count, he doesn't know who is in his first team squad, there are three injuries he hasn't told us about, he has fallen out so badly with three of those eighteen that they won't even be on the bench or he is lining up his excuses early.
TBH - every single one of those worries me.
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I reckon that he doesn't see Long, Raglan as part of the first team squad.
 
Sarge said:
What ever happened to sports science? ...wtf is happening in training sessions? ....15 fit players? ...u23s supposed to provide cover aren't they? Or are the u23s injured (or loaned out)? ....it's either KR shooting from the lip or something really isn't right with the training regieme, or for that matter the overall fitness n health of the players
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Look at the senior players that see injured
Eastwood - freak impact injury
Carruthers - Ingame Injury that happens to many players across a season
Hall - sadly his knees seem shot. Can't get going without breaking down again.
Mackie - injury prone for the last few seasons, another injury is no surprise
Browne - arrived with an injury and not 100%, we've taken the risk to give him a lot of minutes. Not convinced he ever got to 100% fit following arrival injury.

Not sure any of these are down to training or preseason issues. If we were getting a lot of muscle injuries then I would be looking at the sports science etc l.
 
mooro said:
couple of weeks ago I'd have agreed on this, but I think he might actually be softening with regards to Long - let's hope so anyway...
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Or hardening to a certain Mr McMahon. Heard whispers he isn't particularly flavour of the month.
 
Sarge said:
What ever happened to sports science? ...wtf is happening in training sessions? ....15 fit players? ...u23s supposed to provide cover aren't they? Or are the u23s injured (or loaned out)? ....it's either KR shooting from the lip or something really isn't right with the training regieme, or for that matter the overall fitness n health of the players
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Re: the U23s - then the most significant loans out are probably Napa and Little at this stage, both of whom will probably be able to supplement the senior squad when they return. I probably wouldnt expect too much from the rest of them this season - I think there's a lot of finding their feet this year, so apart from those two &, the two old hands (Stevens & Long) I would think the only others we'll see are the young strikers (Lopes and Spasov getting the odd cameo and perhaps Bradbury if sustains his good start.
 
WuTang said:
https://www.Oxfordm**l.co.uk/sport/...jury-blow-for-marcus-browne-and-jamie-mackie/

Browne out until next month
Mackie out for 4-6 weeks.

Injury list:
Fabio Lopes
Rob Hall
Simon Eastwood
Samir Carruthers
Jamie Mackie
Marcus Browne

Signing injury prone players, or just unlucky? Certainly the former in Rob Hall and Mackie.

Robinson: "Right now we have 15 fit players, that’s all we’ve got."
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Don't forget Brannigan

Well that's his post match excuses for his chat with Nathan sorted.

What about Maynard on a game by game basis?
 
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As far as Maynard is concerned, I don’t really get this ‘he’ll only be able to last 10-15 minutes’ thing. Surely if he was really motivated to earn a contract somewhere he’d be busting a gut to get fit, even hiring a personal trainer if necessary. He might not be match fit but a 31 year old man should be able to get to a level of fitness where he can run around for 90 mins shouldn’t he..? Or am I being naive?
 
yellowbow said:
As far as Maynard is concerned, I don’t really get this ‘he’ll only be able to last 10-15 minutes’ thing. Surely if he was really motivated to earn a contract somewhere he’d be busting a gut to get fit, even hiring a personal trainer if necessary. He might not be match fit but a 31 year old man should be able to get to a level of fitness where he can run around for 90 mins shouldn’t he..? Or am I being naive?
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Nope!
 
For the most part, it has been down to bad luck. However, when you have multiple injuries for similar positions that's when problems can occur. We all know about Hall's knee, Holmes has a persistent back injury, Mackie's not been fit from the outset and I've lost count of the amount of times Browne could 'only play 60 minutes this match'.

In our attack we've signed an array of new players, who are all at varying degrees of fitness. It can't be good for the team's attacking cohesion when the attack isn't a stable or consistent line-up. Ask KR what his strongest front 4 are and he could probably tell you. Getting them all on the same pitch at the same time? That's the tricky thing.
 
Every team has their “bad luck” injuries and injury prone players, that’s just the way football is and it should be accounted for by whoever is managing the team, it’s called putting together a squad. As we all know, there are a lot of impacting factors in squad building: Budget, time, relationships, location etc etc. Different Managers take varying levels of risk but a the end of the day the buck has to stop with them.
 
Topper Haines said:
I roll my eyes at the Mackie injury but otherwise yes. Are you suggesting we doing something to cause increased injuries?
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Yeah, sign players that are either in their twilight years or already known injuries or both. Hall, Mackie, Browne, McMahon, and I’m not sure re; Curruthers.
 
uptheus said:
Yeah, sign players that are either in their twilight years or already known injuries or both. Hall, Mackie, Browne, McMahon, and I’m not sure re; Curruthers.
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"Everyone at the club deserves a pat on the back".Really?
 
Isn't Browne injured because of some the challenges in games that have been largely unpunished? Rather than being a crock
 
Gary Baldi said:
Isn't Browne injured because of some the challenges in games that have been largely unpunished? Rather than being a crock
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We don't know one way or the other, do we? It is true that he was carrying an injury when he came to us, but you'd hope it wasn't anything that would have lasted this length of time or been likely to repeat, unless we kept playing him with the injury which has meant it hasn't had time to heal properly. Who knows?
 
Can't we recall Napa - he was decent for us last season and surely gives us another attacking option.
 
ZeroTheHero said:
We don't know one way or the other, do we? It is true that he was carrying an injury when he came to us, but you'd hope it wasn't anything that would have lasted this length of time or been likely to repeat, unless we kept playing him with the injury which has meant it hasn't had time to heal properly. Who knows?
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Did Browne arrive here as a crock? No. Has he had he a patellar injury since playing, that has been exacerbated by hard pitches? Yeah. Hence the, he can only play a certain amount of minutes. No doubt not helped by Whyte going off on international duty and Holmes being out.

I understand it doesn't fit the "we only sign crocks" narrative, but no evidence from the crock crew has been presented to why Browne arrived as a damaged player either. Mackie is fairly obvious as a damaged player. Kind of disrespectful to Browne as well.
 
bazzer9461 said:
Was there due diligence over the fitness of our transfer targets. Ffs this is bloody ridiculous. A P**s poor match day shape 3-2-3-1 which doesn’t seem to work, when will the club learn.

Injuries bloody injuries it’s not great and yes I know these things happen in football but OUFC seem to be a magnet for injury prone players.....or is it the recruitment, if so who’s at fault?
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3-2-3-1. Can't believe it's taking KR so long to spot the flaw in that system.

Sorry Bazzer, no offence ?
 
captainox said:
Mitchell, Shearer, Norman, Garbutt, dickie, Nelson, mousinho, raglan, long, mcmahon, hanson, Holmes, Ruffels, baptiste, Smith, Whyte, Henry, obika.

That's 18 and haven't included Brannagan.
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Robinson said 15 outfield players. So I'm guessing he isn't counting McMahon .
 
bazzer9461 said:
Was there due diligence over the fitness of our transfer targets. Ffs this is bloody ridiculous. A P**s poor match day shape 3-2-3-1 which doesn’t seem to work, when will the club learn.

Injuries bloody injuries it’s not great and yes I know these things happen in football but OUFC seem to be a magnet for injury prone players.....or is it the recruitment, if so who’s at fault?
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3-2-3-1? It's not only Robinson that can't count then
 
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