Black Cats Revamp Backroom Staff

[Chris_FTM2010]

By GRAEME ANDERSON
Published on Thursday 16 June 2011 10:59


SUNDERLAND are overhauling their backroom operation in a bid to to prevent a repetition of the injury crisis which derailed them last season.


The club has looked closely at the frightening number of injury problems picked up last season, and although Steve Bruce still believes that chance and bad luck were the major causes, he is to shake up the way rehabiliation has been handled in the past.

The changes will see an end of the system whereby the physios do their specialist work in rehab and then hand the recovering player back to the fitness coaches.

Instead, long-serving physio David Binningsley has been handed the role of continuing to oversee players’ progress once they leave the treatment room, in order to ensure there’s an overview of the footballer’s condition.

The club is also moving to ensure that fitness coaches Scott Ainsley and Will Royall – who specialise on different aspects of players’ fitness – work more closely together.

The new system is a result of the inquest that both Niall Quinn and Steve Bruce, pictured, promised would take place before the end of the campaign.

Sunderland’s hopes of a higher finish to the season and a possible tilt at automatic European qualification were ruined by a succession of serious injuries, which seemed to happen on an almost weekly basis at one point.

Fraizer Campbell and David Meyler suffered the longest-term injuries but there were also lengthy lay-offs for Michael Turner, Craig Gordon, Lee Cattermole, Danny Welbeck and Titus Bramble.

Bruce confirmed: “I’m going to bring Scott Ainsley to work more closely alongside Will Royal.

“But the major change will be bringing up David Binningsley to see players all the way through the rehab side of things.

“We’ve decided to put one man on a player throughout the whole recovery process so that players aren’t passed along from one section to another.

“It’s possible that there’s a gap there between players moving from one stage to the other and that’s where problems could occur – everyone does their job but without someone overseeing the bigger picture it might be that the switch from one system to the other is not helpful.

“Hopefully this way, by working more closely as a team, you get a more coherent approach and the players aren’t swapping too much from doing one thing to doing another.

“And hopefully you have more of an understanding of what the staff collectively think players should and should not be doing.”

Bruce himself still believes that whatever changes are made, he is unlikely to have such an injury-hit season again.

“I’ve been managing for well over a decade and doing pretty much everything we did last season throughout all that time and I’ve never known a spell like it,” he said.

“If you analyse them, most of the injuries happened in games and you can’t plan for that – you can’t legislate for someone landing on Mensah’s ankle or Michael Turner crashing into a goalpost or Fraizer Campbell and David Meyler twisting their knees when their boots make the wrong connection with the turf.

“To have so many serious injuries, to key players too, was horrendous but a lot of it was just stuff you could do little about.”

[Sandman]

Only so much you can do but at least this is a constructive attempt to improve the situation.

[Banana Boy]

Pete Friar still kicking about?

[King for a Day...]

Originally Posted by Banana Boy

Pete Friar still kicking about?

no doubt he will be somewhere whining about this article to anyone who will listen.

[Lanchesterredandwhite]

It needed a club inquest led by the Chairman to come up with the conclusion that it would be a good thing for the manager to ask the physios to speak to each other?

[Wearside Wanderer II]

Wow groundbreaking stuff from Bruce

[King for a Day...]

Originally Posted by Lanchesterredandwhite

It needed a club inquest led by the Chairman to come up with the conclusion that it would be a good thing for the manager to ask the physios to speak to each other?

always someone moaning.

If you read the article properly it clearly states that the method they used was standard wherever Bruce had worked. These types of processes would not generally be decided by the manager, so you could imagine that the procedure we used was standard for premier league teams. What they have said is that they are going to work closer together in the hopes of locating some areas of improvement. But by all means go ahead and assume that our whole medical setup was a shambles

Anyone having a go at Bruce or anyone at the club for this is an idiot.

Originally Posted by Wearside Wanderer II

Wow groundbreaking stuff from Bruce

Exhibit A

[KingCana]

Originally Posted by King for a Day...

always someone moaning.

If you read the article properly it clearly states that the method they used was standard wherever Bruce had worked. These types of processes would not generally be decided by the manager, so you could imagine that the procedure we used was standard for premier league teams. What they have said is that they are going to work closer together in the hopes of locating some areas of improvement. But by all means go ahead and assume that our whole medical setup was a shambles

Anyone having a go at Bruce or anyone at the club for this is an idiot.



Exhibit A

Damned if you do, Damned if you don't!

[Banana Boy]

Wonder what will happen if we get the same injuries next year.


I say sign Jamie Redknapp & Darren Anderton.

Oh, and Woodgate's available on a free.

[Wearside Wanderer II]

Originally Posted by KingCana

Damned if you do, Damned if you don't!

He's changed next to fuck all, in any sports business the Head phsyio would have near full control, he's bluffed you all again. Expect the same amount of misdiagnosed injuries again this year