Pre contract medicals.... (2 Viewers)

[KersleyDigs]

Just wondering if we can put any of our history of bringing in injury prone players down to poor medical examinations? Are ours up to scratch?

Or is it just that we are unlucky?

I would hope that we seriously look into this as a club and try and only bring in players like Keogh who are natural atheletes and less prone to injury.

We cannot afford to bring in another Wood or McPake!

I would move both of these on in summer as history would suggest another season on in the treatment room will be just round the corner. As Thorn said we can't have passengers........

 

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[We'll_live_and_die]

Didn't Mcpake break his back? I'd like to see them pick that up in a medical a year before he does it.

 

[DazzleTommyDazzle]

The Guardian has a column each Saturday written by a (unnamed) Premiership footballer.

In one of the columns he talked about transfer medicals - particularly those on transfer deadline days.

It seems that in some cases these amounted to not much more than counting the player's legs................

 

[KersleyDigs]

Well, that wouldn't surprise me. SISU cut corners everywhere, so i should imagine our "medicals" will be along those lines.

In fact now Ken D has gone who is going to do them?!

 

[superskyblue]

I think some players are just unlucky with injuries, and this may not show up in a medical. However, a quick look at a players track record should be able to shed light on any trends.. e.g if anybody was to look at McPake they would know that he is very injury prone. I'm sure this is something we consider, but whether it plays a huge part in the decision making is another question. We have had a few, people like McNamee, McPake, Bell, Deegan who have all been very injury prone. Don't know if anybody is as bad as Darren Anderton though!

 

[skybluearmy88]

Well, that wouldn't surprise me. SISU cut corners everywhere, so i should imagine our "medicals" will be along those lines.

In fact now Ken D has gone who is going to do them?!

I heard sky blue Sam was taking over.

 

[SkyBlueM]

Didn't the 'injury prone' Darren Anderton go on to make around 500 league appearances - not bad for a sicknote.

Luck is a big factor medical or no, Stoke refused to sign Demba Ba as they did not like something they saw during his medical and he hasn't done too bad since with no major injury concerns.

 

[Sisu_Cockroaches]

Just wondering if we can put any of our history of bringing in injury prone players down to poor medical examinations? Are ours up to scratch?

Or is it just that we are unlucky?

I would hope that we seriously look into this as a club and try and only bring in players like Keogh who are natural atheletes and less prone to injury.

We cannot afford to bring in another Wood or McPake!

I would move both of these on in summer as history would suggest another season on in the treatment room will be just round the corner. As Thorn said we can't have passengers........

Apparently Stevie wonder does the medicals these days

 

[Sky Blue Kid]

Cody McDonald certainly wasn't fit when he joined us, and cost half a million. If you remember AT wouldn't play him.

 

[Greggs]

hermann hreidarsson.........................

 

[singers_pore]

In his autobiography Kevin Drinkell said that he came to Cov from Rangers with a serious injury and he was somewhat surprised when the medical at Cov simply consisted of a note from his GP. That's one reason why he never played very well for us.

It's no wonder we have wasted so much money on crocks over the years when you hear stories like that.

 

[MusicDating]

In his autobiography Kevin Drinkell said that he came to Cov from Rangers with a serious injury and he was somewhat surprised when the medical at Cov simply consisted of a note from his GP. That's one reason why he never played very well for us.

It's no wonder we have wasted so much money on crocks over the years when you hear stories like that.

Brilliant. 'I'm sorry Kevin can't score today, he has a cold.'

 

[torchomatic]

Well, I don't think SISU would cut corners on medicals as it would mean they are paying for players to be in the treatment room. I would imagine if anything the medicals would be more rigorous because we are so skint.

I think that in general players are more injury prone and miss more matches than in the "old days". How many players miss matches because they have a "knock" or a dead leg or something? And I'll never forget how many games Westwood missed because he was "ill".

I think the modern game has given us weaker players.

Well, that wouldn't surprise me. SISU cut corners everywhere, so i should imagine our "medicals" will be along those lines.

In fact now Ken D has gone who is going to do them?!

 

[SkyBlueScottie]

I would suggest the issue we have is the with the medical care thats on offer to our players after they are injured, Isaac Osbourne was advised to rest a knee ligament injury and it would get better itself, he returns to the field and promptly got injured again. Turner was another. Bell was advised to rest an ankle injury and ended up going in for an op missing more playing time. Compare that to Baker who under Boothroyd paid for his own hernia op from a specialist in Germany and ended up coming back after 2 weeks.