I can tell you with absolute certainty that more than one player has been red flagged by the medical department in the last 2/3 seasons and we’ve still signed them anyway. He has failed to listen to medical advice more than once. It’s his decision - nobody can overrule him and players can’t ‘fail’ a medical.
It annoys me when I hear Robinson saying injuries are just bad luck in his post-match. “Oooh, Yanic fell over the wrong way, Marcus got kicked, you can’t compensate for that.” No, Karl, that is merely how being injury prone or not fit works. Your body is less capable of taking knocks and falls because it is more fragile than most or because it’s being built up from a substandard level, and therefore you are more likely to get injured. It isn’t bad luck, the odds are against you from the off because players are not fully fit or because their bodies have been weakened from severe injuries or wear and tear. That’s how it works, Karl.
It’s up there with the comments of “we think we can get 60 minutes out of him” that pop up every season at some point. If a player can only play 60 minutes then they aren’t 100% fit, so not only are you not even getting 60 minutes of that player at full throttle as is the implication, it’s an admission of risk because their body isn’t properly conditioned. Hence why Murphy plays less than 90 minutes of football after not having a proper pre-season and does his hammy, which we apparently knew wasn’t right when we signed him and yet he’s starting games on the back of a fortnight of light training. Between fees and wages over two years Murphy is costing nearly a million pounds. And not only is he apparently injured when he shows up, he’s then chucked in pretty much cold and ends up on the treatment table after less than 90 minutes of football.
Sorry, I’m not trying to have a rant, but I’m getting really fed up with hearing Robinson bemoan bad luck like some sort of addict sweating over a roulette wheel.
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