December 16, 201411 yr After another cruciate injury to Clayton i'd thought id take a look and see if we have been unlucky or if it is linked to our pitch in anyway. I've gone back and found all the cruciate injuries I can remember and put them in a table along with pitch (stadium) and other details. I guess we then have to look at if it was a tackle (like Evans on Holden), or if his leg just gave way on the surface. If it was the first time it had happened to said player or indeed the same leg if more than one cruciate injury. Can we rule out Holden as it all started from a horrendous tackle by Evans? I'm missing the info for which leg(s) Gardner had his on and how the first one happened. Bad tackle/surface? anyway, here's the table. Does anyone remember any others we have had? Dark red is when it happened for the first time at the Reebok. light red is when it happened at the Reebok but it wasn't the first time for said player
December 16, 201411 yr After another cruciate injury to Clayton i'd thought id take a look and see if we have been unlucky or if it is linked to our pitch in anyway. I've gone back and found all the cruciate injuries I can remember and put them in a table along with pitch (stadium) and other details. I guess we then have to look at if it was a tackle (like Evans on Holden), or if his leg just gave way on the surface. If it was the first time it had happened to said player or indeed the same leg if more than one cruciate injury. Can we rule out Holden as it all started from a horrendous tackle by Evans? I'm missing the info for which leg(s) Gardner had his on and how the first one happened. Bad tackle/surface? anyway, here's the table. Does anyone remember any others we have had? Dark red is when it happened for the first time at the Reebok. light red is when it happened at the Reebok but it wasn't the first time for said player So fess up......ever kissed a girl who isn't a brass
December 16, 201411 yr Gardeners first was Curtis at Barnsley. His mum was called for from the stands iirc
December 16, 201411 yr Joe Riley did his knee at the start of last season. Seem to remember Joey O'Brien being injured for ages too.
December 16, 201411 yr You'd need to compare to other clubs. As you point out a number of those injuries were to the same player; once you've knacked it once I would imagine you're always at risk of doing it again. Be interesting to see the number of new cases compared to other teams. Wembley was apparently noted as a knee knackerer at one time so there may be something in it, though doubt it.
December 16, 201411 yr Author You'd need to compare to other clubs. As you point out a number of those injuries were to the same player; once you've knacked it once I would imagine you're always at risk of doing it again. Be interesting to see the number of new cases compared to other teams. Wembley was apparently noted as a knee knackerer at one time so there may be something in it, though doubt it. I think that's the key. We need to rule out the ones that happened because of fouls and all ones that happened as a result of a first cruciate, then compare the rest. anymore we've had with cruciate?
December 16, 201411 yr You would need a lot more data to make it statistically significant and even then there are too many variables involved IMO.
December 16, 201411 yr I think that's the key. We need to rule out the ones that happened because of fouls and all ones that happened as a result of a first cruciate, then compare the rest. anymore we've had with cruciate? You'd have to take into account every game played at the reebok, players for both teams and at all levels, not just at first team level whilst playing for us Otherwise the data is, as they say, as worthless as a corner
December 16, 201411 yr Author You'd have to take into account every game played at the reebok, players for both teams and at all levels, not just at first team level whilst playing for us Otherwise the data is, as they say, as worthless as a corner but we don't have that data else I would, What it does show is if you exclude all those caused by fouls and those that happened for a second time is that we never had any from when the Reebok was built to when we changed the pitch twice in 2007/2008. http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/1165046.print/ since then we've had 7 cruciate injuries that that didn't involve fouls and the player had never had the injury before. of those 7, 6 were at the reebok and 1 was away at the DW.
December 16, 201411 yr Dr Carlos diagnosed it as a cruciate straight away, whoever on the medical side told him to go and run it off needs sacking.
December 16, 201411 yr Or the electronic billboards emitting knee-weakening gamma rays. No got to be the ticket office
December 16, 201411 yr What it does show is if you exclude all those caused by fouls and those that happened for a second time is that we never had any from when the Reebok was built to when we changed the pitch twice in 2007/2008. ........... of those 7, 6 were at the reebok and 1 was away at the DW. Still not statistically significant. You need to spend a bit more time on this with data from all clubs over the same time period.
December 16, 201411 yr It sure was. That cunt plays for Prestatyn Town now. Went to watch them last season and everytime he was near the goal mouth he was reminded by 10-15 of us what a cunt he is.
December 17, 201411 yr Keith Branagan V derby iirc. At the lever end. He went down like a sack of spuds after hoofing it up field. Step up to the plate Aidan Davidson ????????
December 17, 201411 yr but we don't have that data else I would, What it does show is if you exclude all those caused by fouls and those that happened for a second time is that we never had any from when the Reebok was built to when we changed the pitch twice in 2007/2008. http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/1165046.print/ since then we've had 7 cruciate injuries that that didn't involve fouls and the player had never had the injury before. of those 7, 6 were at the reebok and 1 was away at the DW. 6 at the reebok since 2007/08?
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