samaistonsrightfoot
Striker
I've mapped out injuries and fitness issues over the course of this season.
Green = Not injured
Orange - Assumed not match fit. If a player is injured then only returns to the bench then player would be classed as not match fit (i.e O'Nien being on the bench and Johnson confirming he wasn't fit enough to start). If a player is injured and comes straight back into the first 11 he is class as match fit on his return.
Red - Injured. Player injured and unavailable for selection.
Blue Line indicates when Johnson was appointed.
There has been some talk that Parkinson had the same injury problems as what Johnson has had. Parkinson's biggest 'crisis' was for 2 games where Xhemalji, Willis, Gooch and O,Brien were all out at the same time. Xhemalji hadn't started a league game for us and O'Brien wasn't featuring in the side at prior to that so 2 players were missing from the starting line up. Parkinson won 0 of them. O'Nien being played at CB has also been put forward as an example of Parkinson's injury problems. Parkinson chose to play O'Nien CB ahead of Sanderson when Flanagan was suspended, then continued to play him ahead of Flanagan and Sanderson. This was not due to injuries.
In comparison Johnson has had constant injury problems. Players who were always first names on the team sheet under Parkinson (Gooch, Willis, Hume, O'Nien and Wyke) were either injured when Johnson arrived, or were injured in that first Wigan game then Flanagan broke his foot shortly after. Covid followed that and then a hernia forced his only fit right back out. His last two games are the only games he's had 2 (or less) first team players out (if not including Xhemalji, Stewart and Winchester as none have yet featured regularly in the side).
We are starting to see players now come back to fitness with the exceptions of Xhemalji (not featured all season anyway), Hume (one of our most important players and now Willis so we should begin to see some improvements and consistency in performances.
Green = Not injured
Orange - Assumed not match fit. If a player is injured then only returns to the bench then player would be classed as not match fit (i.e O'Nien being on the bench and Johnson confirming he wasn't fit enough to start). If a player is injured and comes straight back into the first 11 he is class as match fit on his return.
Red - Injured. Player injured and unavailable for selection.
Blue Line indicates when Johnson was appointed.
There has been some talk that Parkinson had the same injury problems as what Johnson has had. Parkinson's biggest 'crisis' was for 2 games where Xhemalji, Willis, Gooch and O,Brien were all out at the same time. Xhemalji hadn't started a league game for us and O'Brien wasn't featuring in the side at prior to that so 2 players were missing from the starting line up. Parkinson won 0 of them. O'Nien being played at CB has also been put forward as an example of Parkinson's injury problems. Parkinson chose to play O'Nien CB ahead of Sanderson when Flanagan was suspended, then continued to play him ahead of Flanagan and Sanderson. This was not due to injuries.
In comparison Johnson has had constant injury problems. Players who were always first names on the team sheet under Parkinson (Gooch, Willis, Hume, O'Nien and Wyke) were either injured when Johnson arrived, or were injured in that first Wigan game then Flanagan broke his foot shortly after. Covid followed that and then a hernia forced his only fit right back out. His last two games are the only games he's had 2 (or less) first team players out (if not including Xhemalji, Stewart and Winchester as none have yet featured regularly in the side).
We are starting to see players now come back to fitness with the exceptions of Xhemalji (not featured all season anyway), Hume (one of our most important players and now Willis so we should begin to see some improvements and consistency in performances.
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