Although I understand the gist of the post, I'm not sure I quite agree with the judgement about the players mentioned.
Galloway's injury was a dislocated kneecap which I think was just bad luck. Bolton's came from a bad, intentional challenge from the Ipswich thug. Miller, I will grant you, seems to have a track record with soft tissue injuries. I think these injuries are par for the course with players who have explosive speed - Michael Owen springs to mind.
It has been said before that we have to sometimes take chances on decent players with injury records. However, if we could identify good injury free players they wouldn't be playing for us, but in a higher league. I expect most clubs at our level are the same.
Maybe it's something common to most clubs that they think that their method will be the one to get a tune out of a player, where no other club has. I daresay that most of the time it doesn't work out and the player moves on.
As a counterpoint to all this I will introduce James Wilson, who prior to signing for us, missed half the season at Ipswich due to injury, and only seems to miss a game for us due to card offences. He might be an outlier in all of this, but it doesn't mean that every player who has an injury record is going to stay injured.
Galloway's injury was a dislocated kneecap which I think was just bad luck. Bolton's came from a bad, intentional challenge from the Ipswich thug. Miller, I will grant you, seems to have a track record with soft tissue injuries. I think these injuries are par for the course with players who have explosive speed - Michael Owen springs to mind.
It has been said before that we have to sometimes take chances on decent players with injury records. However, if we could identify good injury free players they wouldn't be playing for us, but in a higher league. I expect most clubs at our level are the same.
Maybe it's something common to most clubs that they think that their method will be the one to get a tune out of a player, where no other club has. I daresay that most of the time it doesn't work out and the player moves on.
As a counterpoint to all this I will introduce James Wilson, who prior to signing for us, missed half the season at Ipswich due to injury, and only seems to miss a game for us due to card offences. He might be an outlier in all of this, but it doesn't mean that every player who has an injury record is going to stay injured.