In defence of the club; if you were off from work, would you have a reason to complain if the receptionist said, "no he is off, he had an operation on his (insert part of the body) he won't be back for x weeks". Maybe, maybe not, but the club have a duty under the data protection act and medical status is a key part of that. So you could argue that Lincoln have a legal requirement not to bandy about their employees medical situation. The club wouldn't have been able to talk about MAPs position without his approval and I don't see why it would be any different for an injured player. Why would a player want the world to know his sicknote history if he can keep it under wraps and put himself in a better position come transfer time?
I should also point out that a player injured on the pitch, in full public view clearly loses some of the anonymity we mere mortals would be due. Regardless, it isn't as simple as "the fans want to know so we have to tell them".
Fair point but even the slithering piece of info would do just to let fans know the situation.
As it is we are 16 days from the new season kicking off and 5 of last seasons team haven't hardly done a minutes pre season training or taken part in any pre season games. In fact some of them havnt trained or kicked a ball since the play off final in May!
Accepted that the situation could rapidly change but at this present moment There are more questions than answers.
(There you go Salford, get that one up on youtube)
The club is under no obligation to keep the public informed. While its common practice for a manager to report injury updates (not always accurately) during press conferences in the competitive season, that often is for competitive edge. In pre-season that doesn't apply and may actually hamper attempts to sign other players.
FWIW I hope some of these player's absence is due to specific pre-season fitness programmes, managment, medical and sport science will know each player's strengths and weaknesses. Walsh in particular may be doing plenty of pre-treatment strengthening work to make him more robust next season. He demonstrated last season that he could come back in from absences and be pretty well up to speed playing-wise, so more strength work and minimal game time makes sense.
Conversely Jones seemed to spend all summer at the EPC, and in between modelling new kit may have been working on rebuilding fitness following covid, and now has as much game time as any to continue that work.
I trust that the management know what they're doing and as Perthimp says, patience.
It’s like waiting outside the Lincs Echo office for the score of an away game
It’s like waiting outside the Lincs Echo office for the score of an away game
Or the BBC score service and the technological wizardry of the teleprinter.
Bostwick is out of this pre-season too. A calf injury... sound familiar?Bostwick used to sit out most of preseason to protect him, but 8!
Happy days.It’s like waiting outside the Lincs Echo office for the score of an away game
Yep, caused by his back no doubt, absolute warrior but I fear for him with back problem when he's older.Bostwick is out of this pre-season too. A calf injury... sound familiar?
Bostwick used to sit out most of preseason to protect him, but 8!
If I remember, Palmer came in quite late, first time available was for the Crewe Caribou cup match, plenty of time yet.My biggest worry at the moment is the lack of an experienced keeper, although he aint too bad, surely we are not having Long as 1st choice????
Woah-oh-oh, we've got eight Bostwicks,Bostwick used to sit out most of preseason to protect him, but 8!
It’s like waiting outside the Lincs Echo office for the score of an away game
It’s like waiting outside the Lincs Echo office for the score of an away game