I'm getting fully irritated by the raft of injuries we have. I know that in past seasons people have claimed that we're particularly unlucky in terms of injuries (which I demonstrated was not statistically the case over the course of multiple seasons), but this is really starting to become a joke.
So the question is, might luck not be the culprit? We have a brand new training ground, so you'd think our team would benefit from the finest in sports medicine and the rest. Yet here we are, with everyone seemingly carrying a knock, and none of them (afiact) being some sort of freak accident.
I think I read somewhere that TS claimed that AVB overworked the players, which might lead to their breaking down, but AVB also rotated a ton to try and keep players fresh. In fact, it's the players who have been rotated who have been hurt… on again, off again, on again… (Sandro, Lamela, Eriksen, Kaboul, Chadli, just to start) Our most consistent players—Walker, Lloris—in terms of "first on the team sheet" have also shown the most durability. Or is this a chicken-egg thing?
In the baseball world, there are injury anoraks who have managed to accumulate damning evidence that certain clubs just have terrible physios. That their players get hurt more often and stay hurt longer than makes sense within simple random variance. I think they've shown the same in the NFL, but I could be wrong. Maybe Levy put all our money into fancy equipment and not enough into fitness trainers, nutritionists, stretching specialists, yoga pants… ?
On the one hand, it's not the case that Spurs typically have more injuries than normal (either in terms of matches missed by the squad or number of players hurt). Yet I can't help but wonder wtf when I consider our fancy training ground.
So the question is, might luck not be the culprit? We have a brand new training ground, so you'd think our team would benefit from the finest in sports medicine and the rest. Yet here we are, with everyone seemingly carrying a knock, and none of them (afiact) being some sort of freak accident.
I think I read somewhere that TS claimed that AVB overworked the players, which might lead to their breaking down, but AVB also rotated a ton to try and keep players fresh. In fact, it's the players who have been rotated who have been hurt… on again, off again, on again… (Sandro, Lamela, Eriksen, Kaboul, Chadli, just to start) Our most consistent players—Walker, Lloris—in terms of "first on the team sheet" have also shown the most durability. Or is this a chicken-egg thing?
In the baseball world, there are injury anoraks who have managed to accumulate damning evidence that certain clubs just have terrible physios. That their players get hurt more often and stay hurt longer than makes sense within simple random variance. I think they've shown the same in the NFL, but I could be wrong. Maybe Levy put all our money into fancy equipment and not enough into fitness trainers, nutritionists, stretching specialists, yoga pants… ?
On the one hand, it's not the case that Spurs typically have more injuries than normal (either in terms of matches missed by the squad or number of players hurt). Yet I can't help but wonder wtf when I consider our fancy training ground.
