The Pitch and serious injuries

[Mabspurs]

To be fair, its been told in the Guardian as well: https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...r-spurs-head-of-medicine-geoff-scott-injuries

Tottenham’s squad has been devastated by injuries for the last two seasons under Postecoglou and Thomas Frank, with the club experiencing 41 injuries last season leading to 1,553 days out, the second-highest total in the Premier League after Brighton.

So we appoint a guy from Brighton as our director of performance services???

 

[Bishop]

Interesting, one of my theories is injuries creates it's own vicious circle

e.g. if as you said Ange was at fault, we get more injuries, more injuries puts more pressure/play/training time on remaining players which in turn cause more injuries, circle goes on. The past two seasons we have started season without full squad, and more players get injured before the current injured ones come back ..

The priority for club beyond continuing to review the medical issues is to start the season with almost a fully fit squad, unfortunately we will already start next season with a minimum of Xavi, Odobert, Deki out, with question marks on Kudus, and Maddison and Solanke still not quite proven match fit (hopefully pre-season helps)

I see a lot of sense in this being the cause of the injury issues and maybe this season with fewer games will turn out to be a boon as a consequence of not getting Europe.

A season where we are able to rehab our injured players, rotate conservatively and serious reinforcements might just well set us up for a really positive run in 27/28.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Tottenham’s squad has been devastated by injuries for the last two seasons under Postecoglou and Thomas Frank, with the club experiencing 41 injuries last season leading to 1,553 days out, the second-highest total in the Premier League after Brighton.

So we appoint a guy from Brighton as our director of performance services???

And that's perhaps why Munn is now buried under the car park

 

[tw12yid]

I see a lot of sense in this being the cause of the injury issues and maybe this season with fewer games will turn out to be a boon as a consequence of not getting Europe.

A season where we are able to rehab our injured players, rotate conservatively and serious reinforcements might just well set us up for a really positive run in 27/28.

Especially since the 5 subs rule has come in. If you have an injury crisis and don’t have the option to rotate during a game then you have tired bodies chasing fresh bodies.

Personally I think it’s a mixture of things.

Also this topic got me thinking the other day. Players at all clubs now wear those gps trackers during games and training. Before these became a thing if you weren’t feeling it one day then your levels might drop 10% in training. No big deal as long as you are performing in general. It’s only natural that your body doesn’t want to perform at 100% everyday. But I do wonder with these trackers if it pushes players to hit that 100% everyday potentially brining more injuries as the player can’t listen to their body but have to perform for the stattos.