yeah... i really don't know how many years i've had to sit here and really question our conditioning staff.. but year after year i find myself absolutely dumbfounded at the injuries we seem to cop that just devastate our team. it's not the 3 - 4 weekers that worry me so much... it's the season enders. you also look at a bloke like tolar who at first should have only missed 4 - 6 weeks... and we haven't seen him since the start of the year.
look at BK for example... couldn't avoid injury to save his life at newcastle... goes to manly, barely misses a game and becomes a club legend.
every time i bring it up someone comes in and tells me we have the best conditioning staff... it's all science... etc etc... but it just seems to me that it happens far too often to be coincidence. maybe we just have a knack of signing a glut of injury prone players?
I can only comment on the current conditioning team, not that in the past, but what injury are you eferring to that was any way avoidable or somehow responsible to the conditioning staff?
Tolar - Broken knee cap in a tackle and an infection in the bone. I cant see how the conditioning staff can either strehgthen his knee or prevent a collision.
Cross - Ruptured bicep. See above
Jim Mac - Rolled ankle. See above
Patto - Depression. See above
House - Cartliage in the knee. See above
Accidents at training, torn hamstrings and the like are the only thing that can be pinned on conditioning staff.
Any injury caused by impact is considered unavoidable.
I am wondering which injuries you are referring to mate?
