St pete wrote:
Being serious, what is the problem?
For two years we've had massive injury problems and just can't keep our players fit.
Is it they just not tough enough? Is it our training methods? Is it just pure bad luck?
I have a theory.
I know from what Flannery said in the press that Potter demanded (his word) that his players put on weight. Putting on weight will put pressure on certain parts of the body. Potter also liked us to barge forward. That may be why we had a predominance of muscle injuries over the last two seasons. Simmons stated in the press when he first came over here that he left the conditioning side to the conditioner. The conditioner asked him what plan he wanted but he handed the job back to the conditioner. Simmons has speeded us up good style. Our injuries are now largely athletic ones: ankles, hamstrings, groins. The only upper body injuries have been direct results of tackles (Clough and Wheeler; Clough has a complication to his of course).
So my theory is that the type of injuries suffered are as a direct result of the style of play adopted by the coach AND the conditioning regime.
Good theory, eh?
