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NEVER SAY DIE 5:46 Thu Feb 18
First team players have missed over 120 games through injury this season

That is an average of 4-5 players missing for every single league game.

Here's the list of games missed

Song - 13 games
Lanzini - 13 games
Payet - 7 games
Moses - 7 games
Reid - 9 games
Ogbonna - 5 games
Carroll - 12 games
Valencia - 15 games
Sakho - 17 games
O'Brien - 24 games

Total lost - 122 games

It just shows how great a job Bilic has done coping with that this season.

fraser 6:17 Thu Feb 18
Re: First team players have missed over 120 games through injury this season

I'm fucking shocked that 5 players have missed more games than AC

j.a 8:27 Thu Feb 18
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Where does Jenkinson fit into that?

One McAvennieeeeee 8:30 Thu Feb 18
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Also shows how great it is to have a captain leading from the front and not bottling games like some others.

Mr. Burns 8:47 Thu Feb 18
Re: First team players have missed over 120 games through injury this season

Wasn't Obiang injured for a bit as well?

Marston Hammer 8:49 Thu Feb 18
Re: First team players have missed over 120 games through injury this season

How does that compare with other clubs? I know, as of a month ago, we were seventh overall.

13 Brentford Rd 8:51 Thu Feb 18
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Tomkins and koyoute have missed a handfull of games each as well.

chad sexington 8:53 Thu Feb 18
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A stat made worse by JOB being considered first team. He isn't!

JayeMPee 9:35 Thu Feb 18
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Did we, or did we not, switch our training ground in an effort to reduce this ridiculous problem?

RH 9:37 Thu Feb 18
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Obiang was injured at the beginning of the season

Sven Roeder 9:50 Thu Feb 18
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How many of our players have played every league game?

Am sure they said at the weekend that Ranieri had picked the same team for the last 6 games. Obviously the two week break will give him time to decide what to do about replacing Simpson for the next game.

Gavros 9:52 Thu Feb 18
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They moved to rush green and then moved back to Chadwell Heath as they've started redeveloping it. Still, While the move to the Rush Green site is welcome, the site itself will remain inferior in terms of both size and facilities compared to many other clubs (29 acres compared to 70 acres at Tottenham, 143 acres at Arsenal and 152 acres at Chelsea and lacking in facilities such as a full indoor pitch, for example). I'm going to be asking at the next sab if there are tentative plans to expand the site, most obviously by buying out crowlands golf club next door.

HairyHammer 9:59 Thu Feb 18
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This sadly makes me feel better, but not by much.

Bilic is a decent manager and I think his character plays a great part too, top bloke.

FOMB 10:16 Thu Feb 18
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Marston Hammer

I think we were seventh overall, but if you are just counting first team players then we've gotta be up there with the worst hit teams

Infidel 10:21 Thu Feb 18
Re: First team players have missed over 120 games through injury this season

First of all, these are not all 'first team players'.

Only Lanzini, Payet, Reid and Sakho are unequivocally 1st XI players on that list.

Secondly, injuries to key players are part of the game and affect all clubs. You have to have a squad deep enough to cope with it if you want a decent season.

This is the first season I can remember in a very long time where our '2nd XI' has been generally good enough to step up and do a decent job when key players are out. It helps explain why we are doing so well.

Third, we are not an exceptional case. Liverpool have been without Sturridge - by a mile their best player - for most of the season. City have been without Kompany for much of the season and also Aguero for several games. Arsenal have also had key players out. Everybody has the same problem.

Private Dancer 10:22 Thu Feb 18
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It really is madness...has to be something wrong.

FA Cup 5th round game and no strikers.

Mad Dog 10:28 Thu Feb 18
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I know we started the season early this year... but playing 120 games is rediculous. No wonder we've got injuries.......



... oh

One McAvennieeeeee 10:29 Thu Feb 18
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"Only Lanzini, Payet, Reid and Sakho are unequivocally 1st XI players "

What utter garbage. Ogbonna, Moses, Carroll and Valencia?

franksfat&slow&wank 10:29 Thu Feb 18
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good thread NSD

Fucking scary but I wonder how that compares to others in the league

Liverpool seem to like an injury

stewie griffin 10:31 Thu Feb 18
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Liverpool
Newcastle
Bournemouth
Man Utd
Man City
Tottenham
Arsenal

All above us in this particular table, as far as I can tell.
Conclusions - it has precisely fuck all to do with training facilities, and we aren't especially unlucky.

franksfat&slow&wank 10:34 Thu Feb 18
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griff which is what I thought

its part of the game

and I guess the game has changed a lot since the 1970's etc

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