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Craige Coren's avatar

Great peace, Simon and I believe very important with all the analysis going on around us. It has to affect us and our results, there are no questions. It reduces the options on the bench and the choices. The manager has to change again. Yes we should’ve won at least two of those that we’ve lost but we wouldn’t have them perhaps if we had the full squad. Another comment I would make is that when you take into account Forfana we have not or will not have had a fully fit squad for at least 2 1/2 years

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Bob Bellamy's avatar

Great piece mate ,it certainly throws a different perspective on it but we need to know why ie what is causing these injuries as it cannot be fate .

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Andy Setterfield's avatar

Balanced, articulate and above all else realistic however perhaps Poche could lay the cards down slightly differently ( team position) and get a better result but I agree with everything you say.

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TheAlgerian's avatar

coincidence that all the injuries happened once lukaku fell out with the club, i think not. the lukaku curse lives

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Kris Petrov's avatar

Whether we play more positional football (e.g. City) or we play more attacking/counter attacking footbal (e.g.) injuries can happen at any given time. Yes, medical team and recovery process are as important for all players (injury ones and non-injury ones). We need to sustain this setbacks and move on. It is obvious we created chances without so many first team players but we couldn't materialize them. Patience and hard work. Calma!

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Billy's avatar

Can we try find a way of getting Gary Neville to see this article please? No exaggeration this injury record must be the worst in football history...

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Billy's avatar

Are we signing injury prone players or is this an issue in house at Chelsea as this amount if injuries is far from normal - have been saying for ages that it's not like anything I have ever seen before...

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Umair's avatar

yeah we are cursed. its just mad how many injuries we pick up... wonder when we will see our first choice team together and for how long. This season we are not even in europe.

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Danny Windsor's avatar

A serious amount of Money Time and Effort needs to spent on injury prevention and recovery, there is no reason for us to have 13 injuries in 5 PL games...

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