New Signings?

Id bring Bogle on in last 25 should we need another option. We have a strong squad and injuries will always occur, it's how we deal with replacing the player who's injured. Let's get behind the team and supper whatever 11 are on the pitch at the time.

Quoted from BeijingMariner

then why on earth did you say it on a public forum?

Because I was sharing information that I felt might be of interest to others.

Take it as you want.  I've been told some information by someone (who I'm not prepared to unveil).  

I'm not in the game of just starting rumours for the sake of starting them.  In fact I rarely share the limited information I do get fed. To be honest I actually thought the situation with Brown's knees had been mentioned numerous times on here and indeed through outlets such as the Telegraph and Humberside, obviously that's not the case.

If the information is right or wrong, I really don't understand the obsession on this forum with requiring a 'source' for every little bit of news that's not in the mainstream.  If these 'sources' were unveiled do you really think they would share any information in future?

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

It doesn't seem that sports science and countless years of experience has either prevented injuries or fixed them, does it?

I must confess I am disappointed about the injury situation because I thought we had learned the lesson from last year when the same thing happened. The problem isn't so much the number of games, it's the number of players in the squad in certain position. We are simply short on numbers.

OK some injuries may be niggles but we have 3 of the squad who have hardly played in pre-season. The knock on effect of this is that squad rotation in those friendlies was cut back and other players maybe had to be given too much game time.

Having said that it has been an excellent pre-season in many ways. At least 2 young lads have shown they can fit in the squad and the way the team has played and score goals has been refreshing. I just hope we don't get any more injuries and we can do ourselves justice in August this year.

You can't prevent injuries.  

With the case of Marshall and Brown it was sustained in games, other than insisting that players don't go in for challenges you'll never remove that risk.

Robertson is a bit of a concern but isn't this a knock-on from his injury last season, perhaps from coming back to early to play at Wembley?

For Bogle I'm just reading it as his body is taking time to adjust from part-time training to full-time.  Some players adapt naturally, some take time.  It is a bit disappointing because he's come here with a lot of expectations and we've paid a fee, but I would much rather he pick up these knocks and niggles now rather than mid-November, for example.

I know what you're saying and from looking like we had potentially two good teams to put out, we feel a bit down to the bare bones again.  I'm still confident we've got a very good 11 to put out with decent options on the bench.  This time a year ago we had signed Alan Connell just so we had another striker and bench full of kids and the (at the time) much maligned Craig Clay.

We're jinxed i tell ya.

Couple of injuries but no need to worry..


McKeown

Tait
Pearson
Gowling
East

Mackreth
Clay
Disley
Monkhouse

Amond
Arnold/Bogle

Sounds great to me..

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Trying to stay positive but this is all very disappointing. One of the main aims of the close season is to get players to play a system and get use to each others ability and play, yeah this as worked a treat but now come the time you really want to put it into practice the friggin most important part, the main aim etc ...half the fecking squad is injured.

The manager is now frantically scrambling around looking for new players?????? WTF IS GOING ON???

YES WE WANT THE PLAYERS TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNING..... NOT LITERALLY BUT TO FECKING GET UP AGAIN !!!

So now hurst as to start again (during the season) fitting new players in  WHICH WAS WHAT THE CLOSE SEASON WAS FOR FFS
IT COULD ONLY HAPPEN HERE. Didn't the same thing happen last season.

Talk about over the top !!! We don't have half the squad injured and injuries can occur at any time especially in training. The problem we had last season wasn't just down to injuries - we had three players suspended but hey let's overlook that!

Quoted from rancido

Talk about over the top !!! We don't have half the squad injured and injuries can occur at any time especially in training. The problem we had last season wasn't just down to injuries - we had three players suspended but hey let's overlook that!

Facts. They're brilliant.

Quoted from rancido

Talk about over the top !!! We don't have half the squad injured and injuries can occur at any time especially in training. The problem we had last season wasn't just down to injuries - we had three players suspended but hey let's overlook that!

Trust you to ruin things rancido. Letting facts get in the way of a good rant.ffs