Why do Newcastle United players keep getting injured?
Manchester United and Reading may top the injured lists but Newcastle’s injury problems over the last couple of years have been persistent and serious enough to warrant this question.
Although several players are slated to return for Newcastle United by the end of April, Newcastle’s ‘luck’ is such that they might just lose several other players before 13th May.
And who can forget their injury crisis mid-season?
Is it just bad luck, is it the new training pitch, or is it something else?
I was tempted to run a headline ‘Newcastle United are cursed with injuries’ but it felt too much like Tribal Football.
It may not be far off the truth though.
What do you guys think? Is there any reason behind Newcastle’s constant injury scares or have Newcastle just been unlucky?
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Any idea when Vidic will be back? The present defence is making me pissed off, especially with the major matches coming up
Because they are lazy good for nothings, using injury to mask their haterd for the roeder / souness regime.
and who can blame them quite frankly? Our constant mismanagement is running the club in to the ground.
Sharath - he broke his collarbone - I wouldn’t want him back this season, let the man rest.
This is a major concern. It has to be sorted out because it has been going on for years now. We need to get to the root of the problem before it damages any hopes for silverwear in the coming season. We are extremly unlucky but luck come is in to play once or twice not consistently. I believe it is down to the pitch or our training scheme, as it always affects our first-team more than our reserves.
We have a lot of hamstring injuries at NUFC and the rumour is that they are caused by both the training pitches at Little Benton and St. James’ Park.
We’re not sure what it is but there certainly should be a major push on why we do get so many injuries - and try to get to the bottom of it.
It’s used as an excuse for non-performance by the team far too much.
Grahame Souness tried to sort out the reasons - but once he left nothing was done.
I think it might just boil down to the coaches/physio over at st. james.
I think the answer to this question is a mixture of incompetence on behalf of the hapless management/training set-up and their excuses for the continued failure to deliver the required level of performance. These factors have been picked up by the media who are always willing to write another story about further crisis at the club. We only have to ask ourselves why does no one talk about Manures’ injuries and why do their management not consistently use them as an excuse?
i like newcastle. they are good!!!!!1
Sharath Chandra Ciddu, we’re talking about NUFC here, not MUFC.
notrub - so?
Ed - that would suck, wouldn’t it, if it was the training pitches? Hamstring injuries could be caused by a different reason, perhaps some faults in training methods / intensity. The ground arguments sounds more logical than the cursed argument, for sure.
ANd Mimo - while United had a severe injury crisis last season and are teetering on the edge at this point of the season as well, I wouldn’t say that we had the sort of problems NUFC had. We can always put 11 Prem players on the pitch.
Existential angst
Ahmed - the injury problem is one that needs to be fixed at Newcastle - my gut feeling is that it’s the training pitches. We don’t want to hear next season that injuries are the reason (excuse) we didn’t do well .. again.
That’s been used too much now - nobody else gets the injuries we do.