Thanks for that, 63rd sub for Noah, but, as per my post, they have played a friendly since.

Edited by eagleman13 (20 Oct 2023 5.50pm)

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

Well we have a light at the end of the tunnel hopefully with injurys issue , but will be holding my breath until we have played 3 games ,
Nathan really have been feeling for him the kid really wants to play , Roy says he is playing for under 23s , so lets hope he gets fitter just for his own belief ,

Franca well lets all get on our knees and pray he is the next missiah for 18months then he will get brought grrrr ,

done some of my own research on injurys and it seems the tempo of the game is quicker than the players , so all clubs train them like athletes , so all the sprinting , stopping in a match is taking its toil on the human body mainly lower limbs hence all the muscle injurys ,
everybody has a different tolerance to how much there muscles can take , you cant test muscles to see how long it takes before it goes ,
I was very fit and run trained with a playing friend , 7 games into the season he done a hamstring , after that he had problems was play 5 miss 4 , he had a private physio i didnt and it took 6 years before i got injuried then things changed , So with the best wills in the worlds you never know how long your muscles will last

Hi Plaistow Eagle,

I'm no expert but i'm guessing with modern sport science the fitness levels required for players today vs the team of the 80s is much higher and making sure there is a duty of care is also in place to ensure that players bodies and brains are not damaged so that they can have a good retirement.

Despite the fact they all earn way too much for kicking a bag of wind around, they are human and deserve to be treated with care and decency. Also i'm pretty certain it's not in the players hands to say they are fit, but in the hands of the medical teams these days.

I could be wrong, but that's my current understanding.

Tomkins added to croc list.

More worrying, Olise recovery extended to 4th November, same as Eze.

The reason there are more injuries now, is the pace of the game is much faster. Players are given proper care to get over injuries. In the past basically before the Premier, players with knocks, injuries etc were given steroids and opioids to mask the pain and told to play, those players now in their 50s and 60s struggle to get out of bed in the morning due to the pain.

Looking at that list, there are a fair few that were signed in the Summer transfer window which would've been pretty disastrous if they'd come to us.

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.