Why are the media not saying anything about our injury crisis?

[Howard_lfc]

So where are all the people who said we'd bought really well in the summer and we now had a boss squad?
So we've got injuries - lets get them outta the way now and hope we can steer clear of them for the second and most important part of the season - after christmas.

[Sarb]

So where are all the people who said we'd bought really well in the summer and we now had a boss squad?
So we've got injuries - lets get them outta the way now and hope we can steer clear of them for the second and most important part of the season - after christmas.

Fact that we're still in contention for the League with all the injuries we've had shows that we've got a pretty decent squad to be honest

[Sir Bob]

Talk of a media conspiracy against Rafa is a load of rubbish. Our treatment in the press is no better or worse than the other big clubs.

As for Rafa's rotation policy its bound to be criticised when it doesn;t work. Alan Hansen has a little pop at it today on his BBC website column and he's hardly ante LFC is he.

[Sarb]

Talk of a media conspiracy against Rafa is a load of rubbish. Our treatment in the press is no better or worse than the other big clubs.

As for Rafa's rotation policy its bound to be criticised when it doesn;t work. Alan Hansen has a little pop at it today on his BBC website column and he's hardly ante LFC is he.

I seriously beg to differ with the first comment in bold there .

If Hansen knows so much why don't he grow a set and manage a team himself. Rafa succeeds and fails by his decisions. He's got a better managerial record than the likes of Gray, Hansen, Lawrenson etc. Andy Gray bottled taking the Bitters job too. All well and good sitting behind a microphone saying what's wrong....try doing the job day in day out!

[Diego]

the media only concider us to have two players of importance, gerrard and carra, if they where injured they would be all over it, but the rest don't matter...

[friedk]

I don't give a **** about the media.

The last time we had an injury crisis like this was Rafa's first year, and by this stage of the season we were already well out of the title race.

This season is still far from over.

[tsb]

Who cares what the media say/do not say? I guess they don't make a fuss because they don't consider us to be actual title contenders.

[dww]

So where are all the people who said we'd bought really well in the summer and we now had a boss squad?
So we've got injuries - lets get them outta the way now and hope we can steer clear of them for the second and most important part of the season - after christmas.

I think that the injuries in some ways have come at the very worst time (and to the worst players) for us. We may well have had a much improved squad but in order to really bed in the new players I think we needed to have the security of the spine from last year and injuries, to Agger and Alonso in particular, have been a real problem for us in that regard.

I really hope that we get them back for the Christmas period when games come think and fast.

[Parm]

I seriously beg to differ with the first comment in bold there .

If Hansen knows so much why don't he grow a set and manage a team himself. Rafa succeeds and fails by his decisions. He's got a better managerial record than the likes of Gray, Hansen, Lawrenson etc. Andy Gray bottled taking the Bitters job too. All well and good sitting behind a microphone saying what's wrong....try doing the job day in day out!

I dont know about the others, but Jockey has always said he saw the pressure and strains managers go under first hand and didnt want any of that,.

[Joe Le Toff]

Talk of a media conspiracy against Rafa is a load of rubbish. Our treatment in the press is no better or worse than the other big clubs.

As for Rafa's rotation policy its bound to be criticised when it doesn;t work. Alan Hansen has a little pop at it today on his BBC website column and he's hardly ante LFC is he.

[dww]

I seriously beg to differ with the first comment in bold there .

If Hansen knows so much why don't he grow a set and manage a team himself. Rafa succeeds and fails by his decisions. He's got a better managerial record than the likes of Gray, Hansen, Lawrenson etc. Andy Gray bottled taking the Bitters job too. All well and good sitting behind a microphone saying what's wrong....try doing the job day in day out!

I'm not sure that we get anymore abuse than is warranted by our failure to win the PL. It's obviously a long time since we won the top division in this country and our manager has never done it either. When United go through a bad patch there is always a tirade of abuse but it is more easily deflected by pointing to past successes, same with Wenger at Arsenal really.

Obviously being a critic is an easier job than being a coach but that doesn't makes peoples opinions less valid. In general I think people on the internet have a tendancy to blow criticism out of proportion IMO.

[Red Chilli]

Why are the media not saying anything about our injury crisis?

Because it doesn't sell papers.

[Jennings]

I think it may be indirectly because of rotation.

- constant rotation may hide the fact that we have players unavailable
- rotation makes a better story than some injuries.

I am not pooh-poohing rotation, just trying to answer the initial question

[Redspin]

I'm not sure that we get anymore abuse than is warranted by our failure to win the PL. It's obviously a long time since we won the top division in this country and our manager has never done it either. When United go through a bad patch there is always a tirade of abuse but it is more easily deflected by pointing to past successes, same with Wenger at Arsenal really.

Obviously being a critic is an easier job than being a coach but that doesn't makes peoples opinions less valid. In general I think people on the internet have a tendancy to blow criticism out of proportion IMO.

I don't know how old you are but I can assure you that when Man U went 27 years in between winning titles from 1967 onwards, it was scarcely mentioned, whereas it's hard to read a press report or watch a live game without Liverpool's 17-year drought being mentioned

[dww]

I don't know how old you are but I can assure you that when Man U went 27 years in between winning titles from 1967 onwards, it was scarcely mentioned, whereas it's hard to read a press report or watch a live game without Liverpool's 17-year drought being mentioned

Fair enough - I'm mid-20s. But I would imagine it is safe to say that press coverage and specifically the importance of football to selling papers has changed since even the early 90s. The Murdoch axis of papers and Sky being a major driver of this.