ChinaOwl Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Sack the medical team ...... that should do the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hodgybysea Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 On the forwards front,it's games like like last nights when you miss the players like Gary Hooper,a little nudge here and there,clever hold up play and finding space where no one else can. It's a pity it doesn't look good for him with his Owls future because his experience would be vital at times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nethertonowl Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 3 hours ago, Beholder said: Penney Lazaar Lee Onomah Joao Forestieri Hooper Winnal Have I missed any? We need a few of them back to stand a chance of being consistent. Four strikers out is a joke. Abdi, two weeks away 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wednesdaywizard Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 What's going on with Winnall? He seems to have been back in the fold with the u23s for weeks now and yet isn't getting in to the squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OxonOwl Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Bruce has said he needs a lot of football to get back up to speed. Having said that, he wasn't picked for the next U23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurujuan Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 1 hour ago, wednesdaywizard said: What's going on with Winnall? He seems to have been back in the fold with the u23s for weeks now and yet isn't getting in to the squad. Well he’s never looked like scoring a goal in all those appearances, so we can assume that he’s not ready for first team football We are down to the bare bones though, when it comes to strikers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh_weds_we_love_you Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Post match interview with Bruce on the OS says we have 10 first team injuries. Sure over the past 2 seasons that has reached as high as 14 players. Bonkers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternlad Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 7 hours ago, hodgybysea said: On the forwards front,it's games like like last nights when you miss the players like Gary Hooper,a little nudge here and there,clever hold up play and finding space where no one else can. It's a pity it doesn't look good for him with his Owls future because his experience would be vital at times. True. Hooper would have been ideal last night...Billy Blunt but bigger...I still laugh when I see the way Hooper persuaded John Terry to have a lie down when we beat Villa last season. Was it Reach who scored then...I can’t flippin remember that far back. And by the by, what is Joao’s problem at the moment anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owls maniac Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Hasn’t DC recently spent a shedload on the training ground? There’s no way it can be so much worse than every other club in the league. Think it’s a multitude of factors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shandypants Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 11 hours ago, Beholder said: Penney Lazaar Lee Onomah Joao Forestieri Hooper Winnal Have I missed any? We need a few of them back to stand a chance of being consistent. Four strikers out is a joke. Thorniley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airborne_rat_of_s6 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 11 hours ago, OxonOwl said: Van Aken? Abdi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogers Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 11 hours ago, Beholder said: Penney Lazaar Lee Onomah Joao Forestieri Hooper Winnal Have I missed any? We need a few of them back to stand a chance of being consistent. Four strikers out is a joke. Isn’t Lee now classified as disabled. Injured would seem to suggest it’s something short term or recoverable from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james o connor Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Winnall obviously isn’t properly fit but needs must we need options . Hopefully fletcher is okay and as much as Matias hasn’t done a deal, nor has Boyd but I know which one is more likely to score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldishowl Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 It starts with signing players. We need to sign players who have played regularly and have got good playing rates in the past . We then must make sure they are of the correct age and naturally athletic. Then you have a chance. Reach and Joey for example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0114 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 I personally think it falls back onto recruitment. Championship is a tough tough league, many leagues don’t have 46 games. For example Van Aken... the most games he managed to play in the Eredivisie is 30 out of 34 and that was in 14/15. In 15/16 he managed 20 out of 34 and in 16/17 he managed 26 out of 34. Meaning he had only managed to play 46 games over 2 seasons in Holland, he comes to a much tougher league with many more games and we deemed this acceptable to spend £4m on a player who hadn’t played more than 26 games a season in the two years previous to us signing him. We we really need to be targeting players who can cope with playing 40 games a season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelowl Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 23 minutes ago, oldishowl said: It starts with signing players. We need to sign players who have played regularly and have got good playing rates in the past . We then must make sure they are of the correct age and naturally athletic. Then you have a chance. Reach and Joey for example agree this is important we dont do ourselves favours when i saw Iorfa i thought at last athleticism then he gets injured kin hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldishowl Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 1 minute ago, steelowl said: agree this is important we dont do ourselves favours when i saw Iorfa i thought at last athleticism then he gets injured kin hell He doesn’t meet my other criteria, hardly played for two years. What’s wrong with him, did Bruce say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelowl Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Just now, oldishowl said: He doesn’t meet my other criteria, hardly played for two years. What’s wrong with him, did Bruce say. i didn't hear but wouldn't be surprised if it's hamstring hope not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East Yorks Owl Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 I’m sure part of the issue is just bad luck with some isolated match day injuries, but looking at the bigger picture could the bloated size of our squad also be an issue? I appreciate that a large squad should take pressure of player demands, but has it created a culture where players aren’t motivated to return to fitness? Just a guess, but if we only had a couple of players to cover each position surely both the club and injured player would be busting a gut to regain match fitness as they’d be desperately needed on match day. To add further weight to this argument, some of our long term injuries seem unusually vague/mysterious. If Abdi knew he was desperately needed to fill his position in the first team, would we have seen more of him on the park? For some of our long term injuries I worry that they’ve lost their motivation and seem resigned to running their contracts down from the treatment room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleo Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 Injuries happen. We seem to get more than our fair share but it's the recovery rate that baffles me. Lee you can understand, but what's happened to Hoops and Abdi ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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