Also read there’s a 15% chance it never properly recovers. I’m sure his rehab will be good but that doesn’t mean it’s a formality
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dear oh dear, imagine thinking you can just run players into the ground for two years without consequences loooool.
Is it?
Players bodies have been beaten and pushed to the limit playing a daft style for the last 24 months.
If it was a player who had never played a min for him fair Madison played plenty of mins under Ange and recently came back from a similar injury picked up under him.
Muscles and ligaments don't just magically repair after having the shit beat out em for years
these lot think as long as they got 8 hours sleep last night they should be fine looool. no such thing as fatigue.
As someone who used to play rugby to a barely semi pro standard I know I didn't have the recovery tools these lot have but fuck me I still have aches and pains especially in my shoulder where I tore the ligaments.
Fuck knows how these guys must feel when they tear something then have to run a marathon on it every other week
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you can tell someones never done any competitive sport in their life when they come out with such nonsense.
I might be old fashioned but the least I expect from our players is to be able to run lots.
I expect the manager to make them run... and run... and run.
If it is down to fatigue, then I blame the endless addition of fixtures to the calendar.
I expect the manager to make them run... and run... and run.
If it is down to fatigue, then I blame the endless addition of fixtures to the calendar.
He was always injury prone at Leicester aswell
ACL rupture requiring surgery is usually at least 6+ months and usually worse, unfortunately
Yep.
3 players (including Madders) in the last few days have all suffered the same injury
View: https://x.com/brfootball/status/1953544555888095629?s=46
View: https://x.com/ipswichtown/status/1953082196845010986?s=46
I was just talking to my son about that the other day pre Maddison injury.
Specifically long term fatigue and overtraining.
A friend has risen through the ranks in football and it’s something we talked about years ago.
My son has since studied sport science and it’s something he wrote a paper on.
Anges training methods and emphasis on high tempo sprinting in games won’t just go away overnight. But that’s not the whole story.
With top level football the lack of downtime and then making players go on long haul flights doesn’t help either.
It’s going to be interesting to see what that club World Cup does. It has the potential to affect the teams who played in it. Especially the ones who made it to the semis onwards. Will see how this season pans out.
Always been a brittle player. We need robust athletes if we are to ever be a serious side again.
Irrespective of whether or not they actually contribute to these injuries, stuff like Club World Cup and Nations League are utter nonsense. Let's get this out of the way.
But, as also evidenced by NBA players who are babied like never before yet still are not immune to going down with these horrific injuries from time to time, the main culprit IMO is the high intensity of the said sport that requires players to make so many sharp moves.
Gone are the days when players had the luxury of standing around or jogging during a good portion of the game, putting little to no pressure to their ligaments and muscles.
But, as also evidenced by NBA players who are babied like never before yet still are not immune to going down with these horrific injuries from time to time, the main culprit IMO is the high intensity of the said sport that requires players to make so many sharp moves.
Gone are the days when players had the luxury of standing around or jogging during a good portion of the game, putting little to no pressure to their ligaments and muscles.
Do you honestly think overuse injuries aren’t a thing?
Do you work in professional sport?
The WWE lot have seen a big upswing in things like ACL injuries (esp. with their new trainees)...
Are we perhaps at a point when we're asking more than the sports scientists and conditioning experts can currently deliver?
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Numerous managers have complained about the workload and risks to the welfare of modern footballers. Even Pep.
We're just ahead of the curve.
Anyway weren't we saying injuries are no excuse for last season, given that other clubs have them and did better than us?
We're just ahead of the curve.
Anyway weren't we saying injuries are no excuse for last season, given that other clubs have them and did better than us?
Madders was injured in a freak way. Ligaments don't take much to be strained or torn, just the right angle or rotation, a change in weight, and it snaps. The key to prevention is to have the muscle support around the ligaments. These thin sinewey-muscle body types seem to get more of them.