- Aug 25, 2010
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It blows my mind that people still think the injuries are just normal and shouldn’t be taken into consideration.
We weren’t shit before the injuries - we were just off the CL places. We were inconsistent and had clear issues to work on, but we weren’t shit.
Re injuries, you’re right that we don’t know how much Ange’s methods contribute to that, but it’s fair to say it’s almost certainly a factor (as he has conceded) and the fact that we’ve turned over the medical staff also suggests a problem but that one nit of Ange’s making.
if we were missing a couple of key players at a time because of Ange’s methods I think that would be a problem but we would still be a lot further up the league than we are. We are missing essentially an entire defence plus we have had our entire backup attack out most of the season. To ignore that in any evaluation of our form is just downright bizarre
Of course the injuries should be taken into consideration but if you stand back and look at our form since last November to this November (before the injuries got really bad) our form has been really poor.
That's well over a year's worth of evidence whereby the injuries weren't as bad as they are currently.
We',ve been hugely inconsistent in that period even with our best players more available and playing regularly
Now since November just passed, the injuries have been worse.
So we've gone from inconsistent to consistently poor. So injuries have done that for sure.
But I'm sick of the general inference that it's all down to injuries as to why we've generally been way off in the league for the best part of a year plus, it's not.
We',ve always been inconsistent (bar his first ten games) so the problems were there regardless.
Now the injuries have just completely exacerbated our inconsistency.
The root of our inconsistency is to do with how we're set up to play week in week out.
The injuries shouldn't be used to mask the real problem.