Dark Munster

A player who seriously injures another player (non-accidentally) should be banned for the same length of time as it takes for that player to recover.

It's deja vu all over again.

This has 5-5 written all over it.

And yes, I agree with the OP, Reed has failed Puel.

How can people say this (and I agree on this part) and yet say the manager has to go? He's been given a squad with huge holes (compared to last year) and has had a ridiculous number of matches to contend with. Not to mention our usual 9 or so players out injured at any given time. There have been a number of matches, when able to field a strong team, we've played excellent football. He's clearly no Branf**t/Wigley/Gray/Saggy, and has only been here half a season FFS. I'll judge him after a season with a squad not lacking players in essential areas.

Ok I'm off to my bowling league now. When I get back (about 11 pm UK time ) I expect a CB and striker in. A 300 would be a nice icing on the cake.

I hope we told them in graphic detail where to stick their enquiry.

No lumberjacks or hockey pucks involved?

But not as bad as Calum Bloody Davenport.

If that's the case, let's throw in Long for good measure. Maybe Yoshia too. Strikers and CBs are overrated anyway.

We're supposed to be bringing in a striker, not selling one FFS.

Why Sutton?

Given our appalling track record of injuries, maybe not.

Luck certainly plays a part, but I think we're well behind Leicester in the sports science/injury prevention department. As I keep saying, bring in Nasty Nigel to set up something similar here.

Me too, but after 2 games in 3 days (one a gruelling semi final) it was too much to ask to field a strong team three times in 6 days (not to mention having 9 injured and Fonte gone). If we hadn't lost 4 on the trot in the league (say instead W 2 and L 2) then I would have liked a weak team against Leicester and Swansea, and strongest for both cup games. But we needed to stop the rot in the league against Leicester (which obviously worked) and of course it was always going to be a strong team against Liverpool. That meant yesterday's game had to be throwing the kids to the wolves. C'est la vie. I don't blame Puel at all, and that's from someone who wanted us to go full out for the cups. One out of 3 is a fantastic success, if we can beat Utd of course.

http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/epl_injury_table.php Southampton injuries: 9 Man Utd injuries: 1 HTH

He presumably meant over the long term. Same team twice over three days is possible, but doing it for the third time another three days later is a bridge too far.

This.

If Austin, Boufal, Rodriguez, Ward-prowse, Van Dijk, Targett, McCarthy and Fonte had been available (Yoshida had a knock too), and we hadn't played an exhausting midweek semi-final, and hadn't had games every 3/4 days since Christmas, I'm sure we would've seen a much, much stronger line up. All of that was out of Puel's hands. BTW Arsenal only had one player on their injury list compared to our nine.

Stop it, stop it! This is much too sensible for this bedwetting thread.

A bit of both, I think. As I've said before, the club should look into what Leicester are doing so successfully in that regard. The difference in their injury lists and ours over the last couple of seasons is like, umm ... the difference between SMS and Krap Nottarf.

Absolutely. And we won't finish 7th even if we try. Should've put our best out today, and play the kids against Swansea.