Bad luck with injuries last season?

[Gornal]

Many people have blamed relegation on bad luck with injuries. This article seems to show that Wolves were actually one of the luckiest teams last year where injuries were concerned.

http://www.teamtalk.com/bolton-wanderers/7788441/Ravaged-Red-Devils-top-of-the-crocks

 

[bridgnorthwolf]

Those stats are total BS. They don't tell half the story as it depends on who was injured, at what point of the season and how vital they were to the team.

We had woeful luck with injuries, especially the timing of them.

But we were still poor and should have done better with the players we had available most of the time.

 

[loopy lupine]

There are no actual statistics to back their claims up.

What signifies a significant injury (one of the 25 man squad??)
If you're including Michael Owen as a significant injury for Man Utd when they have 4 strikers ahead of him then that makes the stats poor.

No doubt Bolton where the worst hit by key injuries last season, however there is no doubt that us losing Frimpong in January had a real affect on our season, but that cannot be quantified by stats.

 

[Gornal]

There are no actual statistics to back their claims up.

What signifies a significant injury (one of the 25 man squad??)
If you're including Michael Owen as a significant injury for Man Utd when they have 4 strikers ahead of him then that makes the stats poor.

No doubt Bolton where the worst hit by key injuries last season, however there is no doubt that us losing Frimpong in January had a real affect on our season, but that cannot be quantified by stats.

It shows that other teams squads coped with injuries much better than Wolves did. For so few injuries to cause such big problems for Wolves shows how bad the squad is.

 

[Pengwern]

9 teams had an easier ride than us according to that table, Gornal, and ours happened to a lot of our most important players (Fletcher, Foley, O'Hara, Frimpong, Kightly + Guedioura had been crocked the season before and didn't get over it until sent out on loan.

 

[Gornal]

9 teams had an easier ride than us according to that table, Gornal, and ours happened to a lot of our most important players (Fletcher, Foley, O'Hara, Frimpong, Kightly + Guedioura had been crocked the season before and didn't get over it until sent out on loan.

Only 4 teams lost fewer days to injury in total.

Those teams had fewer players that were out for more than 2 weeks but they were obviously out for longer in total than the majority of Wolves injuries.

 

[loopy lupine]

Only 4 teams lost fewer days to injury in total.

Those teams had fewer players that were out for more than 2 weeks but they were obviously out for longer in total than the majority of Wolves injuries.

Yes but in my example, if Man Utd lose Owen for xx days and we lose Fletcher for xx days which team suffers more?

 

[Gornal]

Yes but in my example, if Man Utd lose Owen for xx days and we lose Fletcher for xx days which team suffers more?

That shows that the problem is the quality of the squad not bad luck with injuries. If Fletcher is irreplacable then the manager should've done something about it

 

[bridgnorthwolf]

There are no actual statistics to back their claims up.

What signifies a significant injury (one of the 25 man squad??)
If you're including Michael Owen as a significant injury for Man Utd when they have 4 strikers ahead of him then that makes the stats poor.

No doubt Bolton where the worst hit by key injuries last season, however there is no doubt that us losing Frimpong in January had a real affect on our season, but that cannot be quantified by stats.

Nor can things like the fact that Jamie O'Hara, undoubtedly one of our most influential players when anywhere near fully fit played for most of the season nowhere near fully fit...

 

[sedgwolf1980]

Injuries to key players is about number 328 on the list of reasons we got relegated.

 

[northnorfolkwolf]

Many people have blamed relegation on bad luck with injuries. This article seems to show that Wolves were actually one of the luckiest teams last year where injuries were concerned.

http://www.teamtalk.com/bolton-wanderers/7788441/Ravaged-Red-Devils-top-of-the-crocks

No one I know has blamed last years awful season on injuries? It was down to a combination of $$$$ ups by the 3Ms.

 

[loopy lupine]

That shows that the problem is the quality of the squad not bad luck with injuries. If Fletcher is irreplacable then the manager should've done something about it

There is no way we can compete with clubs that we can have a player of Owen's quality as 5th choice striker just in case Rooney, Wellbeck, Berbatov & Chicharito got injured.

Fletcher was irreplaceable, but where would Wolves go and find a player of similar quality to warm the bench in case he got injured? To blame that on the manager is ludicrous.

My point is that injuries to our key players are more influential on results than injuries to alot of other teams "key injuries"

 

[SimplyTheWolves]

You can blame injury's to some degree but that degree is very small in our case. If our players went through last season unscathed we would still have struggled and in my opinion still have gone down.

 

[northnorfolkwolf]

You can blame injury's to some degree but that degree is very small in our case. If our players went through last season unscathed we would still have struggled and in my opinion still have gone down.

Absolutely. Injuries have got nothing at all to do with it.

 

[wolvo_boi]

It affects everyone. See Man City without Yaya Toure.

We just werent good enough from bottom to top.