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Post by russiansub on Jul 13, 2023 17:10:00 GMT
When did George Thomas become ‘injury prone’?
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Post by jamesm6688 on Jul 13, 2023 17:20:07 GMT
If bonner thinks he’s an excellent signing, so do I 🥳
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Post by malotru on Jul 13, 2023 17:25:42 GMT
I have a lot of love for Bonner and he seems to have made a real effort to learn from last year’s shortcoming in terms of squad building. His steadfast determination not to learn from signing injury prone players does baffle me though. Kind of makes me laugh actually. Almost like he’s leaning into it. Bit of an in joke. I appreciate that there are risks we have to take to get a certain level of quality on our budget. Think we’re starting to cross the line of too many now though. Fejiri, Thomas, Cousins. Wouldn’t describe Gassan as injury prone as such but even he’s come off a long lay off. May is coming off a serious injury. Rossi had a pretty bad one. Morro and Rennett are old. Dunk no spring chicken and has certainly had his injury difficulties in the past. Just think we have to be careful with these next signings because you could easily see a fair few injuries in that list above. I think Cousins sounds like a great signing IF FIT but I’m getting a bit worried of having to keep adding that caveat to signings. I know that injuries can happen to any player, any time but some are clearly more susceptible than others. Doesn’t matter how good someone is if they’re in the treatment room. At least all these new signings aren’t currently injured when they have signed for us. We signed Okenabirhie after a very long lay off and needed several months to get match ready. And Thomas was injured when we signed him. Cousins might get injured during the season like any other player but at least we can start with him on a clean slate. Very pleased with signing a player whose been mainly in the Championship for the last few years.
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Post by tojo on Jul 13, 2023 17:50:16 GMT
Wigan fans posting lots of mocking posts apparently, has he really a worse injury record than Liam O'Neil? No doubt IF he stays fit this is a v good signing....remaining hopeful.
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Post by lesj on Jul 13, 2023 17:51:45 GMT
Well. he's only been given 1 year for a reason
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Post by djs230480 on Jul 13, 2023 18:05:14 GMT
If he regularly played 40+ games over the last few seasons then there is no way he would be signing for us.
With our position and budget Bonner et all will have to take a few risks on good players with injury records. They may work they may not.
Anyway welcome Jordan
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Post by Fred Colon on Jul 13, 2023 18:07:11 GMT
He had three consecutive seasons of 40+ appearances at Charlton, so it's not implausible that he'll have a relatively injury-free season.
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Post by El Goodo on Jul 13, 2023 18:11:37 GMT
If he regularly played 40+ games over the last few seasons then there is no way he would be signing for us. With our position and budget Bonner et all will have to take a few risks on good players with injury records. They may work they may not. I don't think anyone is (or can) arguing with that. It's more that doing that last season with Okenabirhie, O'Neil and Haunstrup (+ Thomas if you want to argue it that way, but it's not one I'd subscribe to) caused us some fairly significant problems. It's fair for the optimism to be cautious & to question whether we're digging ourselves back into the same hole we found ourselves in last season. Although I don't think we are, personally.
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Post by lionel on Jul 13, 2023 18:41:30 GMT
I guess this rules out any chance of us bringing back Liam O'Neil then.... Interesting reaction towards a new signing! Bless.
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Post by lionel on Jul 13, 2023 18:53:15 GMT
Really good signing. We are now adding players to the team with championship experience.
Just a couple of signings away
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Post by ilovechadders on Jul 13, 2023 19:00:51 GMT
Well. he's only been given 1 year for a reason Same as Mullin then
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Post by MartinL on Jul 13, 2023 19:21:07 GMT
According to wiki, his last injury was April 2019 and his lack of appearances after was more him being used as a back up player.
It doesn’t given much info about his time at Wigan though
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Post by mattr77 on Jul 13, 2023 19:28:38 GMT
Kevin Betsy will have worked with him very briefly at Wigan last season.
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Post by rozza1 on Jul 13, 2023 19:43:36 GMT
According to wiki, his last injury was April 2019 and his lack of appearances after was more him being used as a back up player. It doesn’t given much info about his time at Wigan though Had three injuries at Wigan according to transfermarkt. A hamstring injury and a thigh problem that meant he missed 38 games in 21/22 season. And a hamstring injury again last season which meant he missed 16 games. Wigan fans are all adamant he's a injury room regular rather than a matchday one. I guess we'll have to see, he clearly has talent though. I do agree with the worries about having similar problems to last season regarding squad balance/depth. With May still yet to return, there's going to be a lot of pressure on Cousins and Digby.
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Post by hoolaohanrahanrahan on Jul 13, 2023 20:05:28 GMT
When did George Thomas become ‘injury prone’? 1860s, we've covered this.
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