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The Great Nottingham Forest Injury Crisis

Project Zeus

Project Zeus

Steve Chettle
Hobbs stress fracture. Lansbury stress fracture. And we're having to rely on Jonathan Greening.

Injuries are piling up at the moment, and with an increasing list of long-term absences, I thought we could use a thread summarising them all and lamenting our luck.

As of 15 Feb 23, I make it:

Goalkeepers
- Dean Henderson - thigh injury, out for a month.

Defenders
- Moussa Niakhate - picked up a hamstring problem against West Ham in August, which was then aggravated with Senegal, then he ended up on crutches somehow. Hasn't played in six months and doesn't appear to be returning any time soon.
- Omar Richards - fractured his leg in pre-season six months ago, yet to make an appearance for the club.
- Giulian Biancone - knee injury, out for the season.
- Willy Boly - hamstring against Fulham on 11/02/23, out for three months
- Scott McKenna - hamstring against Fulham on 11/02/23, out for two months
Serge Aurier - calf injury against Man City on 18 Feb, out for three/four weeks.

Midfield:
- Cheikhou Kouyate - torn hamstring picked up in the World Cup.
- Ryan Yates - concussion? Out for two weeks.

Attack:
- Taiwo Awoniyi - took a knock against Southampton early Jan, reports now suggesting he'll be out "for months"

That's 9 of our 25-man squad out long-term, with a couple more carrying knocks.
 
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MaxiRobriguez

Bob McKinlay
Project Zeus said:
Hobbs stress fracture. Lansbury stress fracture. And we're having to rely on Jonathan Greening.

Injuries are piling up at the moment, and with an increasing list of long-term absences, I thought we could use a thread summarising them all and lamenting our luck.

At the moment, I make it:

- Moussa Niakhate - picked up a hamstring problem against West Ham in August, which was then aggravated with Senegal, then he ended up on crutches somehow. Hasn't played in four months and doesn't appear to be returning any time soon.
- Omar Richards - fractured his leg in pre-season six months ago, yet to make an appearance for the club.
- Giulian Biancone - knee injury, out for the season.
- Willy Boly - ankle injury picked up mid-January, currently being assessed.
- Jesse Lingard - thigh problem picked up in December, Cooper said he's the only player close to returning.
- Cheikhou Kouyate - torn hamstring picked up in the World Cup.
- Taiwo Awoniyi - took a knock against Southampton, hopefully returning on 14/01.
- Neco Williams - picked up a 'facial injury', hopefully returning on 14/01.

That's a sizable chunk of our 25-man squad out long-term, with a couple more carrying knocks.
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That's actually crazy when you write it down. 20% of our squad are (probably) out for the season, or at least most of it.

Going to have to de-register Biancone aren't we (and he'll probably never play for us) and maybe the same for Kouyate too depending on what we see his long term future here as.
 
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gamble

Stuart Pearce
Nothing compares to that season when we had 15 players out and 3/4 of our defence injured.

Seems we are cursed!
 
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Cloughie1975

John Robertson
It’s the modern curse with players so highly tuned-Leicester also have an injury crisis.
As John McGovern said-in his day the manager told you if you were fit enough to play.
 
JohhnyM

JohhnyM

Viv Anderson
Not great news but it's only really Taiwo that we don't have proper cover for.

Obviously we'd rather have them all fit and available but McKenna can do a job, Jesse's nearly back, Mangala covers Kouyate, Williams is second choice anyway, and the rest have been out for ever anyway.

Even with Taiwo and Jesse out, last night's front three wasn't too bad.

Hopefully we'll sign a striker, centre half and Scarpa's mate this January, and then we'll be rock solid.
 
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Timothy Pope

I know that Nuno that I know that Nuno that I know
This thread is incomplete without a picture of Chrissy Cohen being helped off the pitch..

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Project Zeus

Project Zeus

Steve Chettle
Henderson looks to have joined the ranks of the Walking Dead. We're really getting whittled down!

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Yoghurt Slice

Yoghurt Slice

First Team Squad
Brutal to be honest. We've been lucky the past 2-3 seasons and not had many bad ones or injury crises, seems the injury falcon has divebombed into 2 seasons' worth of Garibaldi pigeons this season to make up for it
 
Notcher

Notcher

Stuart Pearce
Project Zeus said:
Henderson looks to have joined the ranks of the Walking Dead. We're really getting whittled down!

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It's fine, it gives the media a different reason to ignore for us adding more transfers
 
Project Zeus

Project Zeus

Steve Chettle
Original post updated.

We've now got 8 players out with long-term injuries, just under a third of our squad.

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youreds1986

Geoff Thomas
You do have to ask questions about what's going on behind the scenes.

Could well be bad luck, but it definitely needs digging into internally.
 
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Harry1982

Grenville Morris
Some are unlucky, some are quite old and prone to injury well one at least and some are just not used to the demands of Premier league football. You could argue Henderson hasn't really played so many games in a long time. But cooper does play with energy and press that is prone to picking up injuries
 
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