[Albion] Injuries

[Clive Walker]

Do we have a club doctor yet? We’ve been without one for quite some time.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

Do we have a club doctor yet? We’ve been without one for quite some time.

Calling @Dr. No

 

[chaileyjem]

Do we have a club doctor yet? We’ve been without one for quite some time.

Sort of. Adam Brett is the club's Head of Medicine and Performance team and has been since 2020 according to his LinkedIn and thats a large team he leads which you'd expect given we're a PL club

And The club doctor appears to be Tim Buck and has been for a while. .

But yes the first team are advertising for a doctor (but no idea if the role is vacant, new, or this is preparation in advance of someone leaving)

https://my.corehr.com/pls/bhafcrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form

 

[Clive Walker]

Sort of. Adam Brett is the club's Head of Medicine and Performance team and has been since 2020 according to his LinkedIn and thats a large team he leads which you'd expect given we're a PL club

And The club doctor appears to be Tim Buck and has been for a while. .

But yes the first team are advertising for a doctor (but no idea if the role is vacant, new, or this is preparation in advance of someone leaving)

https://my.corehr.com/pls/bhafcrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form

Adam left a few months back

 

[chaileyjem]

Adam left a few months back

nobody updates their LinkedIn do they ? ha !

 

[AZ Gull]

Sort of. Adam Brett is the club's Head of Medicine and Performance team and has been since 2020 according to his LinkedIn and thats a large team he leads which you'd expect given we're a PL club

And The club doctor appears to be Tim Buck and has been for a while. .

But yes the first team are advertising for a doctor (but no idea if the role is vacant, new, or this is preparation in advance of someone leaving)

https://my.corehr.com/pls/bhafcrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form

Stephen Lewis was club doctor at Albion for eight-and-a-half years until he moved to a similar capacity at Fulham in January. Vicann During then took on the role (although there have been suggestions that he is no longer at the club either).

Having said that - maybe there are multiple "club doctors" at any one time (as I see that Tim Buck's linkedin profile does use that terminology)?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Press conference :

- Lallana is available
- RDZ looking forward to Dahoud/ Dunk returning from suspension
- No timetable for Webster return
- The positive news about Ansu Fati seems to have been ambitious as RDZ suggests its the longer three months out rather than the 6 weeks previously reported. So back in Feb not Jan.
(via https://twitter.com/Brian__Owen )

The BBC live text round up of the PL pressers also lists Buonanotte as unavailable.

 

[Machiavelli]

The BBC live text round up of the PL pressers also lists Buonanotte as unavailable.

Not mentioned in the pre-match press conference put up on the club site. Nothing from Cantor or Owen in their tweets either.

 

[chaileyjem]

Welbeck is training again. - or at least in the club training pix .

 

[chaileyjem]

The BBC live text round up of the PL pressers also lists Buonanotte as unavailable.

Not here - link ?

 

[huzzah]

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As a heads up, and this was after 3 pints, and it was dark, I waved at whom I am sure (pretty sure) was pervis driving an expensive Mercedes truck like thing out of the car park after the Brentford game. (It was also dark inside the merc - so I could very well be mistaken - I waved at him and he waved back, so if that wasn't him I just had a very awkward interaction). But if he is driving, that would mean his leg would be out of the cast and he's allowed to drive.

 

[dazzer6666]

As a heads up, and this was after 3 pints, and it was dark, I waved at whom I am sure (pretty sure) was pervis driving an expensive Mercedes truck like thing out of the car park after the Brentford game. (It was also dark inside the merc - so I could very well be mistaken - I waved at him and he waved back, so if that wasn't him I just had a very awkward interaction). But if he is driving, that would mean his leg would be out of the cast and he's allowed to drive.

Great intel. Definitely starting tomorrow then

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Not here - link ?

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It was a live text page, updating across all of the PL managers’ press conferences. I can’t find the page now. There were three entries relating to RDZs conference soon after 3pm. The line about Buonanotte was in the first of these.

 

[chaileyjem]

It was a live text page, updating across all of the PL managers’ press conferences. I can’t find the page now. There were three entries relating to RDZs conference soon after 3pm. The line about Buonanotte was in the first of these.

Found it. - didn’t come up in the other reporting / but nice spot.

 

[US Seagull]

Do we have a club doctor yet? We’ve been without one for quite some time.

This. Forget signing a full back in January - we should be breaking the bank on hiring the best medical staff and facilities. Probably costs a lot less too.

Also, a set piece coach. A really good one.

 

[US Seagull]

Agreed . Its been difficult but 3 wins out of the last 4 during this period is remarkable really - but "crises" like this also gives players opportunities and credit to RDZ for being bold here - and you can argue they've taken them...Igor, Hinshelwood, Buonanotte, Baker Boitey, Baleba have all had starts etc and grabbed their chance.

I have to imagine that professional footballers do worry that the team will struggle while they are out injured or banned.

I have to imagine some fear that they won't.

 

[chaileyjem]

Found it. - didn’t come up in the other reporting / but nice spot.

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Buonanotte on the bench so this was presumably an error.

 

[Mancgull]

De Zerbi saying that Goodnight, Mitoma and Gilmour were all not able to play 90 minutes due to physical condition and Veltman out for personal reasons.

 

[Bodian]

I have to imagine that professional footballers do worry that the team will struggle while they are out injured or banned.

I have to imagine some fear that they won't.

Many years ago when I used to play 5-8-aside (depending on how many turned up) weekly with our work crew, we used to organise the occasional game against other companies / groups who were in a similar situation. For a full, proper, 11-a-side match on a full pitch with ref (ie: a 'proper game'). These came around every few months - and were the highlight, so of course you'd put extra effort in and they meant a bit more.

So - basically, very very amateur. But when we lost narrowly or something like that, we could get quite down - and I did wonder how professionals must feel in high-stakes games.

Anyhows, back to your main point. One day, against a load of younger players, I was playing right-wing. I spent the whole of the first half basically covering back and helping the right-back because we were being totally overrun and outplayed, and was personally having a really good match. To my intense annoyance, the captain took me off at half-time when it was 0-0, on the basis that I 'wasn't getting up into their box enough'.

Five minutes into the second-half we were 2-0 down. Both goals coming down our right flank.

I was perversely extremely gratified.

I was never substituted again.

 

[A mex eyecan]

De Zerbi saying that Goodnight, Mitoma and Gilmour were all not able to play 90 minutes due to physical condition and Veltman out for personal reasons.

excuse the ignorance, but who is Goodnight