Football Dinosaur
Winger
Our sports science, physiotherapy and player conditioning are showing how bad they are by the availability of young lads. We've also bought injured players, this isn't helping.
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inability to reach peak condition and stay at peak condition will be a major factor in whether a young player gets the playing minutes needed to reach their full potential . We're fishing in that pond of players with question marks over them and a lack of playing time in the mens' game has to be properly understood before we take them on.
Players are just more like a thoroughbreds than days gone by, everything will be monitored, so any little niggles can affect whether they play or not. Probably also true players don’t play thru injuries as much either and of course they aren’t getting cortisone jammed into them to keep playing regardless of injuries. Would have also been the culture just to man up and play, look at some of the states robson got into and kept playingAlways amazes me that Liverpool used to play 60 odd games a season regular when they ruled English football in the 70s and 80s, and the same team was played pretty much every game.
You could say the game is faster now, but with all the science involved, the diets, pristine pitches to play on, much less physicality, less games etc the amount of injuries is staggering, you just have to look at us and them up the road this season.
That may start to explain an increase in the game as a whole but not the fact we're getting more injuries than others.Possibilities:
clubs are running players too close to breaking point in search of that extra 5% performance.
Players have come through academy system rather than being toughened up playing with big cloggers on a Sunday or down the park?
Football boots offer no protection these days
Bigger faster players make harder collisions
Bloody snowflake generation