Soft tissue injuries

Didn't we boot out the bigger-built lad in the summer because Alexander wanted fitness to improve?

 

Do we know what Sarcevic's injury is? Byrne said he thought he had cramp. Kelly went over on his ankle and was stood on as well at the same moment. Baldwin injured in a tackle.

Are they classed as soft tissue injuries because if they are then all clubs have them-injured players it's commonplace. Not sure why we think we are immune from them. Just unlucky today to lose two more to injury-assuming Byrne has done his hammy as was speculated on the radio.

 

The problem is that these players, aside from Sarcevic, are arguably not good enough anyway, but they're our first-choice defenders and are out injured

 

Soft tissue?.... asda shades works alright for my household

 

Strange that Parky and co could cope with the facilties back in thecgood old days ..........maybe its down to luck or signing players that are injury prone.

Not a clue but amazes me that somehow the training facilties are an issue but werent before the fookwit brothers got hold of the clubb

 

I will ask the same question I ask everytime this comes up and I haven't previously had a response.

Do we get more of this type of injury than other teams in our division, or do we just know about them becuase they are in our club?

I don't know either way but to those that think it is a massive issue that effects us and we need to change things etc is it just us?

 

Sarcevic is out with a knee injury picked up on the opening day and thought it wasn't too bad then made it worse in the Salford game but they've not said what type of knee injury it is.
I'd be very worried if Byrne had cramp after 20 minutes.

It would be interesting to see what injuries are like with other teams Alexander has managed as it seemed to be a very physically demanding pre-season where he said that he deliberately went into the early matches with the players fatigued.

 

Didn't we just sign loan players to cover injuries back then? but with the change to the loan rules etc we can't now?

 

Can you ever recall a time when we had mass injuries ?????
The odd one maybe but not like it is now ........maybe the whole mentality of that team was simply difderent to this one now.

 

No way Byrne had cramp.
I’m no expert (my wife is) but I suspect a 31 year old professional footballer knows the difference after 20 minutes of a game between cramp and a hamstring issue.

And if he did have cramp after 20 minutes then that’s a lot more serious issue than a soft tissue strain/tear.

 

To me is sounds like a manager putting the blame on the player a bit. Byrne might have said it was cramp but for a manager as experienced as Alexander that should raise a few alarm bells in his head that something isn't right and it can only be one of 3 things:

• Byrne is deliberately lying as he wants to stay on
• Bryne doesn't realise what it is and genuinely thinks it could be cramp
• It is cramp and there is something majorly wrong with Byrne's fitness

whichever it is it's on Alexander for not making the sub straight away or at least telling Walker to kick the ball out when he got the ball in his hands after Byrne came back on.

 

Newcastle who are playing right now have Botman and Lascelles out with injuries

 

I think it’s the style of play causing these injuries, high energy and high pressing.

 

Love it , don't let her see your post.

 

Yet we see tennis players sometimes on court regularly up to couple of hours or more on court running twisting turning stopping sharply then sprinting and they don't get any rest in a two man sport, I accept they don't play competitive tennis week in week out like footballers but you see the same men and women winning tournaments, do they train differently and if so could we learnt from their training regime.