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Player Wilson Odobert
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Yeah, it's not the pitch mechanics. There's no science behind it. Is the turf too soft? That's a different question.
This is killing me
Injury crisis started around 2023 but we moved into the stadium in 2019 so where's the correlation, why weren't we getting this many injuries in the first 4 years?
Agree.
4 years playing at the 'new' stadium with retractable pitch from 2019 - 2023 and no abnormal stats - some other clubs were worse off than Spurs.
Its only last couple of seasons where we've had abnormal stats - and even that you look at what happened :
Maddison - Known to be out for most of this season
Kulusevski - Originally player camp thought he'd be back after September international break, then Frank by end December ..... but still out injured
Solanke - Had 2 attempts back with sub appearances in Aug, then op and back in January
Dragusin - Known to be out at start of season, just restarted playing
Club tried to minimise injury effects on attackers by bringing in during summer -
Kolo Muami - Loan for striker excellent record at Frankfurt and Juventus, but injured with dead leg in training and effectively missed 3- 5 months at start of season, and even then not very effective
Simons - Started slowly seeming to struggle with speed and physicality of PL, only just started to look effective ion January
So we have struggled in attack since start of season with 4 genuinely injured players (nothing to do with pitch), then as Richarlison is only fit forward he's over played
and succcums to injury.
And no effective attack means all defenders and midfield players are more exposed, play more so more likely to pick up injuries.
This means we know :
1 Injuries didn't happen in first 4 seasons of use of stadium with retractable pitch
2 We started this season with a lot of injuries (and underperforming players Kolo Muani and Simons) in attack.
Only people loving Conspiracy theories can blame the stadium pitch for injuries : the facts are NOT on their side.
Ugh, how did we end up with a worse injury crisis than last year? Injury list, while not great, was manageable until the new year started. Now in the space of six weeks it's become cataclysmic. Another fucking ACL too. Devastating for a young player. Players play too many games. It's unsustainable.
World's first is how it is described in the promotional video.
Is it the dividing sections that make it unique maybe?
Do the other retractable pitches roll on in one piece?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmeljNpIV1k
The thing is, with the amount of injuries the pitch would have been considered by people at the club. It would have to be, just as we are doing it now. The issue is that they are likely to show the same blind loyalty to a sodding retractable pitch as they did to a wholly unsuitable manager
Thin squad due to existing injuries, lack of quality meaning the same players are overplayed and a failure to reinforce in January.
is he playing more games than any other squads - I dont know but I doubt it. There has to be more to this injury crisis; were they all sustained at home? Training surface? I dont know
Suspect they've been pressuring players to play when not at 100%, I seem to remember a rumour from an ex-physio or something.
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Wasn’t he out for a season just after he joined ?
These levels of injuries is becoming sinister …. A culmination of things or a root cause.
They’ve gotta be scared to cross onto the pitch
What's the medical staff make up looked like in that time frame is what i wanna know.
But we just seem to be unlucky we had a lot of muscle injuries under ange ofc but the amount of freak season enders is a joke. Kulu, Madders, Bentancur x2 and now Odobert it seems have all picked up 9 months plus injuries in a 24 month spell its mad.
Poor squad planning over playing certain players and buying injury prone players also hasn't helped
My theory also. Inadequate squad means that a trusted few are overplayed with too little rotation leading fatigue which in turn leads to injury at elite levels
I think it's because of the sections that it's a world first. But technically, it shouldn't affect anything adversely. If it's indeed the pitch, it'll be pitch management as opposed to this system.
Talent is there but this is likely the end of his Spurs career
ACL takes half a season after you come back to training. We can’t wait that long and need to sign a frontline attacker or 2 asap
ACL takes half a season after you come back to training. We can’t wait that long and need to sign a frontline attacker or 2 asap
I understand the logic in blaming the pitch but plenty of our injuries are in training, and away grounds. All teams get more injuries now due to playing more minutes (longer stoppage time), more matches, more sprinting in matches. We are getting a large amount due to poor squad depth, rotating players poorly (we rush players back, over play some), having injury prone players (some caused at Spurs yes), medical staff not good enough, bad luck, and when down to less players the fit ones are under more strain and are at higher risk of injury.
For the season? that was a given. He's probably done for next season too. A rupture is the worst possible ACL injury
