Knock of the week

[Melbourne Cobbler]

Dibley Dias injured during the post match warm down after monday nights game, according to Mr Oglethorpe.  Incredible.

In fairness there were a few that used the actual game on Saturday as a warm down.

[DrillingCobbler]

By my reckoning, out of the 29 players in our squad (ones you'd class as first teamers) - 11 are currently injured.

It peaked at 13 the other week.

Which ever way you look at it, its hard to put this purely down to bad luck!

Given its been going on now for about 3 years or so.

How on earth can we sign a 'fit young player' from a premier league club for a season loan; he then gets terrible covid (when its only really old people who get terrible covid) and then gets some random injury 'warming down' after playing about 2 hours of football in 4 months!  Absolutely baffling!

[Razor]

its only really old people who get terrible covid

That's pretty ignorant and inaccurate. I've developed several chronic complications from it and I'm 37. My friend's partner in her early 30s was given a less than 50% chance of pulling through, lost an entire lung and got brain damage. Millions of people of all ages are living with long term complications, even if you don't know any personally.

But I do agree with the rest of your post.

[west stand oap]

Yesterdays team of injured players

                                                                                                  Burge

                                                        Willis                                Magloire                                      Mbete

                                      Hoskins                       Sowerby                                Fox                                     Koiki

                                                         Fosu                                  Morton                       McCarron

           Subs:- Brough, Dibley-Dias, Wilson

I have mentioned before how easy it is to spend other peoples money when posters are demanding various things but if the board want to retain division 1 status I think they now have to find the funds to back the new manager. We only have 1 space in the squad and there are several of the above who we will not see much more of this season and have next to no chance of being offered another contract at the end of the season so we could pay up their contracts to get them off the books and free up space in the squad. It is also possibly kinder to those players as will know where they stand and gives them longer to find another club, maybe in January if they are close to regaining fitness.
With Fox out again for several weeks and no indication when Sowerby is returning we are down to the bare bones in midfield and Eaves is our only striker. We have sufficient number of defenders providing they don't repeat yesterdays debacle.

                                                      

[Tabasco Kid]

Yesterdays team of injured players

                                                                                                  Burge

                                                        Willis                                Magloire                                      Mbete

                                      Hoskins                       Sowerby                                Fox                                     Koiki

                                                         Fosu                                  Morton                       McCarron

           Subs:- Brough, Dibley-Dias, Wilson


                                                      

Room for Lintott on the bench.

[Jim Hall Fixit]

I blimin loved JB and would have been happy for him to regroup and go again if we hand gone down in his watch. Even though I’m not convinced it’s just down to luck, I felt very sorry for him, and over the last 3 seasons, for thus ridiculous injury situation.

I now feel sorry for Sammo but, after the Boro game, I really wanted him to be given the chance. Like many on here, my mind has been changed by yesterday’s dismal performance. After Boro, I thought I saw fire in their belly’s but yesterday, at best it was wind and at worst, a complete lack of desire - to be fair, things were better 2nd half but the damage was done!

This situation is summed up best by Fox (who I normally enjoy watching play), calling in to say he was poorly on the morning of the match!!! For me, a player / team who want to give everything don’t do this! They turn up with a smile on their face and ask to be involved in some way - even on the bench. Then they wait for a club official to say, no thanks you need to sit this one out! I’m not 100% sure this wasn’t the same for Sammy?!

Maybe looking at things over simplistically but I just can’t figure where these player behaviours stem from?

[Ragdoll Cobbler]

I blimin loved JB and would have been happy for him to regroup and go again if we hand gone down in his watch. Even though I’m not convinced it’s just down to luck, I felt very sorry for him, and over the last 3 seasons, for thus ridiculous injury situation.

I now feel sorry for Sammo but, after the Boro game, I really wanted him to be given the chance. Like many on here, my mind has been changed by yesterday’s dismal performance. After Boro, I thought I saw fire in their belly’s but yesterday, at best it was wind and at worst, a complete lack of desire - to be fair, things were better 2nd half but the damage was done!

This situation is summed up best by Fox (who I normally enjoy watching play), calling in to say he was poorly on the morning of the match!!! For me, a player / team who want to give everything don’t do this! They turn up with a smile on their face and ask to be involved in some way - even on the bench. Then they wait for a club official to say, no thanks you need to sit this one out! I’m not 100% sure this wasn’t the same for Sammy?!

Maybe looking at things over simplistically but I just can’t figure where these player behaviours stem from?

It was sicknote Willis who called in sick not Fox...

Now, who was it that signed him on a ridiculous 2 year deal in the summer, even though he was known to be constantly injury prone!?

[Jim Hall Fixit]

It was sicknote Willis who called in sick not Fox...

Now, who was it that signed him on a ridiculous 2 year deal in the summer, even though he was known to be constantly injury prone!?

You are correct. My apologies to BF! Still not the attitude you need for the relegation dog fight we can all look forward to in ‘25!

[CobblerForever]

I was told that Hoskins was signing autographs in the club shop before the match and was out injured.

[itsme]

Someone said its a knee injury and its been bothering him all season

[the grumpy old man]

Someone said its a knee injury and its been bothering him all season

Sammo said it's a degenerative knee injury and he had to have an injection to play and probably will again.

[Cornish Cobbler]

I might need an injection to watch again on Sky.

[Tabasco Kid]

Tyler Roberts is todays recipient. Calf  strain.

[Tabasco Kid]

Well said BBC Jake.

Jake Sharpe
@JakeSharpeBBC
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2m
The Cobblers have used 32 players in League One this season. 15 of those 32 players have failed to make ten appearances. Today is the 22nd game. #ntfc

[Mysterious Curle]

Well said BBC Jake.

Jake Sharpe
@JakeSharpeBBC
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2m
The Cobblers have used 32 players in League One this season. 15 of those 32 players have failed to make ten appearances. Today is the 22nd game. #ntfc

So what’s gone wrong? Bad luck 2 years on the bounce, unsuitable training methods or too many cheap injury prone signings?

[Manwork04]

So what’s gone wrong? Bad luck 2 years on the bounce, unsuitable training methods or too many cheap injury prone signings?

COVID vaccine. FACT.

[F30]

COVID vaccine. FACT.

Oooooh look, there goes a Dinosaur

[Manwork04]

Oooooh look, there goes a Dinosaur

We’ve been through this I gave you peer reviewed evidence that post COVID vaccination there have been more injuries in professional football. FACT.

[F30]

Despite a large body of evidence from extraordinary efforts by investigators around the world, our committee found that in many cases, if not most, evidence was insufficient to accept or reject causality for a particular potential harm from a specific COVID-19 vaccine,” said committee vice chair Anne Bass, professor of clinical medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, and a rheumatologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery and New York Presbyterian Hospital. “In other cases, we did find sufficient evidence to favor rejection, favor acceptance, or establish causality. It is important to note, however, that identifying a harm does not mean that it occurs frequently. Harms associated with vaccines are rare.”

[F30]

We’ve been through this I gave you peer reviewed evidence that post COVID vaccination there have been more injuries in professional football. FACT.

You offered a limited study of a few Italian sports men, and then proceeded to move the goalposts when you were challenged FACT!