Why exactly do you call Colin Lewin, "Llewelyn"?

Injury list already:

Wilshere
Welbeck
Koscielny
Rosicky
Arteta
Flamini

Nonsensical article. Arsenal have fitness coaches and Colin Lewin is a Physiotherapist. If you want to be critical, you can have a go at training methods. Thats down to Arsene Wenger and his coaching staff. Not the medical team.

comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 10 minutes ago
Injury list already:

Wilshere
Welbeck
Koscielny
Rosicky
Arteta
Flamini
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Of those players only Koscielny will be missed

Wilshere is being missed too.

You know I don't know Cereal, I always do it, like a word you know but never spell it correctly. It always comes out Llewellyn and I know it's Lewin

I Luckily I've written the article so I can change it.

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Lewin isn't the team doctor, O'Driscoll is. There is only so much that a physio can do in the moments after a major injury. Diagnosis, long term treatment and rehabilitation fall under O'Driscoll. This is where most of the bone-headed decisions are made. His judgement calls will determine whether a player will be out for weeks or months.
There were even rumours last season, about some of our players preferring to consult other clubs' doctors.

Jenius

The coach and training methods can be blamed for the initial injury. But it's the physio and his team that players are arriving at with "a knock" and leaving after 6 months when it could be six days. It's the med team that signs players of as fit to return.

You can't blame the coaching staff for a med team which is either failing to diagnose major injury in the first place or clearing players to return too early inevitably resulting in re-injury.

Our current fitness coach has only been here a year so he's the one person at the club, we know for fact has nothing to do with this issue. Aside from calling them the Llewellyns (again) everything I've said makes perfect sense.

Would Wenger have had more success and better results with Walcott, Wilshere, Ramsey (leg break aside), Gibbs, Kos (could go on but they're the biggies) fit for significantly more time than they have been?

Can't say 100% yes but league position before injury to Ramsey and Walcott, season before last suggests a strong yes.

And...Would we have been able to buy at least a top squad player, if not a marquee one with the amount of money we've spent (over the league average) on medical bills over the space of his tenure??

Dude are you seriously going to attempt an argument that says the medical bills at Arsenal haven't been way out of control since he arrived? You probably know more than me about where to find the figure, if it's public. Any idea exactly which 8 figure sum it is?

comment by Gillespie Rd. (U18361)
posted 31 seconds ago
Lewin isn't the team doctor, O'Driscoll is. There is only so much that a physio can do in the moments after a major injury. Diagnosis, long term treatment and rehabilitation fall under O'Driscoll. This is where most of the bone-headed decisions are made. His judgement calls will determine whether a player will be out for weeks or months.
There were even rumours last season, about some of our players preferring to consult other clubs' doctors.
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But that doesn't work in my song

Get rid of the lot of them bar the bloke who just got here a year ago. Leave no doubt

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comment by WengersBodyguard2 (U8276)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Gillespie Rd. (U18361)
posted 31 seconds ago
Lewin isn't the team doctor, O'Driscoll is. There is only so much that a physio can do in the moments after a major injury. Diagnosis, long term treatment and rehabilitation fall under O'Driscoll. This is where most of the bone-headed decisions are made. His judgement calls will determine whether a player will be out for weeks or months.
There were even rumours last season, about some of our players preferring to consult other clubs' doctors.
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But that doesn't work in my song

Get rid of the lot of them bar the bloke who just got here a year ago. Leave no doubt
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I wouldn't mind a mass clearout of medical staff. I've always made a big deal about them making Podolski walk off the pitch despite an obvious hamstring tear.
As a matter of fact, the only member of the backroom staff I'd keep would be Vic Akers. We all love Vic

There's no school like the old school

Wb2 Do you honestly think Lewin diagnoses, or prognoses injuries? He does a few rub downs. You are giving him entirely too much power.

Injuries at Arsenal are down to three things.

a) Playing players too often at a young age.

b) Not training players how to avoid injuries.

c) Low intensive training sessions that doesn't toughen the players for high intensity matches.

Jenius

A physio does a bit more than a few rub downs. That's sooo insulting to physios

It's the physio who executes your day to day rehab. A bad physio can undo a doctor's good work in a matter of days mate. Equally a good physio can have you back better than before in less time than expected. You are massively underestimating the role. It's a critical position in a club setup.

The younger players poor rotation has certainly been a factor in the initial injuries. But the recovery from injuries falls entirely down to your physio. It's Lewin turning 6 days into 6 months. He's great with a long term rehab. Bust your leg entirely and he's your man but he can rehab a minor injury to save his life.

He gets the minor things wrong, that's why they become either major or just persistent niggles. Wenger's babies don't have injury issues because they got played too much to young. They have injury issues because Lewin was their physio

*can't rehab