BringBackSwales said:
MaineRoadBlue said:
Beginning to think some players like the idea of being on the sick.
No need to attend international get togethers or long hauls to the North East.
Incidentally, did anyone else notice Pellegrini try to tell us than VK's initial assessment was 5 weeks and he's only 3 weeks in with 2 weeks to go!
WTF! Kompany was injured against Everton; exactly 5 weeks ago tomorrow!
Whatever happened to playing with a niggle or toughing it out? And before anyone tries to come and tell me different, let me tell you this; In 1977-78 Forest won the League and only 14 different players made an appearance during that whole 42 game season that was played on crap pitches against opposition that were trying to break your legs!
In short, today's players are mentally weak and almost programmed into thinking that every time they have the slightest ache they are seriously injured by physios, who almost appear to be generating their own reason for being!
so you are saying that David Silva is skiving, is feigning an injury, and should be playing? You are basically calling him a liar and someone who is unwilling to play for his club? What complete and utter garbage
My point is more aimed at physios completely dictating rates of return from injury to the point where the manager must feel like a motorist taking their car for a service, knowing full well, that even routine maintenance is going to be costly and time consuming!
I'll give you an example;
Post Everton, Mr Pellegrini takes his 1986 model VK4 to the garage (physio bay) after once again it cut out whilst running!
'What's the prognosis' says innocent Mr Pellegrini to the Garage Physio.
'Well' whilst shaking his head, 'It looks like a bad one' says the Garage Physio.
'Oh' says Mr Pellegrini, 'When do you think you'll know?'
'I'll need to run some diagnostics, and consult with the Belgium FA for a 2nd opinion, but it won't be cheap' ........
Later in the following week, Mr Pellegrini receives a call.
'Is that Mr Pellegrini?'
'Yes'
'It's the Garage Physio here, just an update on your VK4 that you have in for repair'
'Yes, what can you tell me?'
'Well, it appears the same old fault we never fixed properly last time is back again'
'Right, how long this time then?'
Well you're looking at 3 weeks diagnostics, around 2 weeks to order the parts and then you need to add 2 week PAT!'
'PAT, what's that?'
'Well it's like V.A.T. but it's called Physio's Added Time, and it's inclusion allows us to get the player back to you even slower than you feared!'
'OK, Any good news?'
'Yes, we have managed to surgically remove Jack Rodwell from one of our bays to make room for VK4, so you can potter about in him for a while'
At this point Pellegrini puts the phone down!
Now, I agree there is a fine line to be found about protecting assets, however the othe side of the line is called getting value for money.
We saw with RSC that our physios were ready to declare him dead, yet the same player can leave us and play uninjured for almost 18 months.
Then there is the case of Rodwell and excuses of how he sleeps or drives his car as the reason for his constant occupation of the Physio's table! Have you ever heard such crap!
I'll return to an earlier post of mine on this thread in which I exampled a good friend of mine who was insistent and determined enough to report back to work after having his lower leg amputated less than 2 months earlier.
Yes, the circumstances may be different, but players seem happy to be pigeon-holed as injured for the timeframe the physio says and make no attempt to get on the pitch earlier.
Ask yourself this, When was the last time you can recall a City player travelling to a game as borderline and going out on the pitch early to carry out a fitness test?
