This isn't fckn normal surely it cant be a coincidence, its staggering. Unprecedented
Hopgood Acl
Doorey Acl
Iongi pcl/mcl
Kautoga ankle
Moses calf
Tuivaiti mcl
Jordon Samrani knee 4 weeks
Russell Quad
Pezet hamstring
Bailey Ankle - unavoidable
R Penasini meniscus
W Penasini Pubis
Paulo Meniscus
Charlie Guymer Pcl
Lincoln fletcher hamstring
Twidel quad
Thats 16 players with below the waist injuries
Tell me this cant be fckn normal.
And it cant be attributed to the speed of the game as other teams aren't as affected as Parramatta
There needs to be a huge investigation into our training techniques, the training and strength and conditioning coaches, sports scientists and dietitians currently at the club
Parramatta are supposedly one of the richer teams of the competition, but it seems our football department is running on the smell of an oily rag. Not only are the club seemingly tight with spending on recruitment, it seems they are frugal when it comes to back room staff.
2024 wasn't great also
Fans have totally had enough because it just can't be coincidental.
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Speed of the game, tackling techniques (wrestling, group tackling), strength of player's in today's game and extra impact from players being so strong are all key factors.
Definitely need to look at more leg work in the off season and techniques when running the ball to protect knees and the crucial ligaments.
Seeing this team get man handled and run over every week, I honestly thought we didn't have a strength and conditioning team.
The only one that looks like he knows where the gym is, is Jack Williams. The rest should be ashamed.
Zip, did you read my post on this blog re AI.....if not please do....and then go back to your sensible posts that sometimes bear reading!
Something as simple as fatigue can cause issues (that can be on S&C). Some of the examples were just luck. Hopgood's and Iongi's injuries were just tackle related injuries. Though Samrani and Doorey's at the start of the year were non contact.
So definitely a case to look at there for sure.
I mean surely S&C is changed this year, Ryles needs to knock his next hire out of the park. We need to be stronger overall.
Blair Mills did a good job last year. We looked fit from round 15 onwards, but of course we can never have anything good and he left due to home sickness
Playing all them games at Suncorp in a weekend is not good either. Condition of some ovals isn't up to scratch. When was the last season the Eels had hardly any injuries
You can classify the structures of the knee as passive or active. The active stabilisers of the knee are the muscles and associated tendons. Passive or secondary are the ligaments and menisci (cartilage). The number and frequency this year on the surface of it does look concerning though I'm not sure it is necessarily related to strength and conditioning. ACL injuries typically occur as a player changes direction off a fixed foot so does not need contact. It is reasonable to infer that there is some deficiency in the active stability of the knee(I.e. the musculature)which leads to this injury BUT these guys have in the main played football for a long time so conversely they should have good quad and hamstring strength. PCL injuries are very rare (though Nathan Hindmarsh will argue against that). MCL injury can occur in isolation but generally a valgus force(a force against the outside of the knee towards the opposite knee)also injures the meniscus. These injuries often take 4-6 weeks because the blood supply is poor to the meniscus. Notwithstanding that is is difficult for the primary stabilisers to be at fault here because the MCL is designed to prevent movement in a plane at 90 degrees to the action of a hinge knee joint. So....dynamic strength or lack of is directly related to quads and hamstrings and perhaps some culpability lies with strength and conditioning coaching as we have seen some ACL and hamstring quads injury. MCL/LCL is a bit harder to assign because the dynamic stabilisers have very little influence on the plane in which these ligaments intact. So training methods coupled with some badluck would seem to be a reasonable conclusion about our current plight. Playingsurfaces perhaps are also a reasonable postulate but why then are other clubs not experiencing a similar injury rate -particularly for ACL? Tackling techniques obviously also are a factor but again other clubs don't seem to have had the number of lower limb injuries we have. Fatigue due to rule changes would likely be a factor.In summary it's difficult to assign any one factor.
Dave we wouldn't be so lucky 🙄
I have printed out an AI response Bobby.....it makes Chiefy look like a blithering idiot!
But more to the point, the example shows how biased and agenda driven he has become!.....like a lot on here I might add.
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