18 Aug 2013 00:31:56
Has anyone thought it is down to the players not being properly conditioned that all our players get injured?
It can't surely just be a coincidence that it's always our players that end up being out for months on end?

1.) 18 Aug 2013
Or that most teams tactics against arsenal are: "kick em and put in rough tackles, to stop them playing their game".
What's really annoying about this is that it's ok for clubs to do a lot of over the top challenges against us, but when arsenal players do one it's always talked about

2.) 18 Aug 2013
You may have a point- but apparently (as you would expect) we have top medical people, physio's etc.

tbh it's perhaps a combination of different things.

Our squad has been thin for a long time, with our best players leaving, etc. I think this has put more pressure on the existing players in general terms, plus being rushed back by from injuries (i.e. if we had more depth in quality there would be less pressure to bring our best players back as quickly).

I don't think this has helped.

3.) 18 Aug 2013
Everyone that leaves doesn't go injury free for no reason . If rvp makes this season then it must be internal, no other clubs seem to suffer like us, or is it wengers mentality just to buy cheap injury prone players

4.) 18 Aug 2013
I think it could be more to the point that we don't have anyone from midfield on who can provide a few 'SIT DOWN!' tackles. If we had this other teams would think twice before smashing into out smaller more creative players.

Though I have often wondered about why we get so many injuries in the last few years. Doesn't make sense to have as many as we do.