Oldham vs Swindon official matchday thread

[tans]

TOWN STARTING XI | Vigouroux; Rossi-Branco, N Thompson (C), Jones; Furlong, Kasim, Thomas, Goddard, Ormonde-Ottewill; Obika, Delfouneso

TOWN SUBS - Henry, Evans, Smith, Rodgers, Iandolo, Norris, Hylton

#STFC 🔴⚪️

[Batch]

oh dear, no brophy or Murray, two of Tuesdays better performers

[sonicyouth]

Injured?

[Flashheart]

oh dear, no brophy or Murphy, two of Tuesdays better performers

Murphy? Did you mean Brophy? If not then I'm rather confused.

[Private Fraser]

Think he meant Murray.

[Quagmire]

Suddenly our bench looks week again.

[Batch]

Think he meant Murray.

doh, yes! cross pollination of Brophy and Murray..

[Flashheart]

Think he meant Murray.

That's what I meant to write, now he's got me writing the wrong names down.

[Batch]

[Ells]

Didn't Brophy go off feeling sick on Tuesday? Might have been concussion.

[adje]

Am i wrong but are our players more injury prone than any other team. I can remember back in the late 60s early 70s when we had the same 11 for about 30 games

[Reg Smeeton]

Didn't Brophy go off feeling sick on Tuesday? Might have been concussion.

He was mugged by a Rovers gorilla, so it's a mandatory rest now for that.  Sadly it's all too easy for Div 3 heavers, to injure our lads, the annoying thing is that refs let them get away with it, like Pope on JSW.

Murray just isn't fit....which is probably why he went down the pecking order at Watford, hopefully he's not a sicknote.

[Super Hans]

Am i wrong but are our players more injury prone than any other team. I can remember back in the late 60s early 70s when we had the same 11 for about 30 games

Before my time but I bet more minor injuries were much likely to be ignored and played through.

Not like now where they're out for 2 weeks with a stubbed toe or 10 days with an itchy bumhole.

[Peter Venkman]

Am i wrong but are our players more injury prone than any other team. I can remember back in the late 60s early 70s when we had the same 11 for about 30 games

Pretty much part of the point I was making on Wednesday, fitness of our players just is not right.

Fitness does seem to be a major issue in the last couple of seasons, more injuries at any one time than I have known in the 40+ years I have been watching Swindon.

Players don't seem to be able to keep going for 90+ minutes and so many injuries picked up in training and in games, is it the general fitness of the players or our training regime? who knows but it is getting silly.

Yes some injuries can be put down to bad luck...Doughty with his appendix and JSW with his ACL but some, like yesterday Brophy went off after "feeling a bit woozy" that isn't right.

[Flashheart]

We don't know why Brophy and Murray are out.

Of the injuries that we do have, at least 2 of them cannot be down to fitness (JSW and Dougherty). Let's not get hasty now.