Besic to miss opener against Watford

While I appreciate that the modern game is about athleticism and control, I have noted that we seem to sustain more of these injuries than any other of our opponents. Or is it that My imagination?

Dear Bobby... look deeper.

As for Hibbert, it seems the club don't bother telling us what's wrong with Tony any more. He's just "out".

I suppose they're could be worse (better) players out.

For the past 5 seasons, Hibbo's played a game or two then missed the rest of the season, and we're still paying him wages!

Gibson was worth a punt. If he was always fit, he'd still be at Man Utd. He's one of the best passers of the ball that I've seen at this place for a long time and has still got one hell of a strike on him.

If he can string 10 consecutive games together this season, he'll be well worth having on the books.

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We are doing something wrong, or not doing something right. Our players can't be that more fragile than every other player.

Reidy & Andy Gray had their problems, but their career stats were pretty good -- ironically, as an aside you're probably aware of, Reidy's problems started with a collision with our own George Wood in the snow at Burnden Park one New Year's Day!

Regarding signing crocks, why on earth did Moyes ever waste money late on and bring McFadden back? This club isn't well off enough to gamble contracts on non-participants.

PhysioRoom.

We also have more injuries than any other team.

Andrew is right: rather than issuing "bulletins", there should be statements regarding how some have been moved on from the club in whatever way satisfies legal requirements etc.

Bulletins about Gibson and Hibbert? Nothing personal against either, for my only relationship with them, just like 99.99% of supporters, is as a player on the pitch. While the latter has been a dependable asset to the club over many years, his days are now just about finished at the so-called top level and someone should call a stop to it.

And I am afraid the former is now so identified with being unfit for duty, both to his present employers and to previous employers, that it is impossible to take his employment seriously. So infrequent have been his appearances that two or three decent passes during those appearances are now seemingly elevated to the status of match-winning performances and claims of his prowess at striking of a football are simply based on reports of his early promise at Man Utd for there have been pitifully few examples of it during his paltry number of appearances at the club.

Of course, such has been the decline in the status and strength of Everton during the last 30 years that we have had to take chances on players in the hope that they will come good but let us at least keep some semblance of balance here.

Of course, the manager is going to put his usual over indulgent gloss on things; he seems to have no other option nor apparently able to stop himself, but supporters of long standing, who have seen truly fine players at this club do not want to patronised by the management into thinking that we are all truly waiting with baited breath for the return of these "truly important players who we are longing to see practice their arts". After all they not exactly a Parker, T Wright, Wilson, Collins, Vernon, Young, Ball, Harvey, Kendall etc.

Rather than this sorry saga continuing, with increasingly nonsensical utterances from management, it would be refreshing to hear that they have been moved on and some young lads given the chance to actually get on the pitch.

Well how did we sign Gibson and Saha? Weren't they both injured when we bought them? Or should I just say Man Utd cast-offs?

If Sean Dyche or Mourinho managed Everton we wouldn't have these hamstring problems. That is a fact.

According to RM, he had heavy legs; what odds on him playing in either of the weekend's games? The club will know by now the extent of his injury but, if it's bad news, it will heap pressure on the powers that be to get players in and that is not the way they work.

"I don't believe in soft-tissue injuries. If you get a soft-tissue injury in football, a mistake has been made. It could be the training programme, a lifestyle problem. Whatever it is, it will be a mistake."

Quite ironic really considering that since July 2013 we have had over 25 hamstring injuries. And 4 hamstring injuries in this pre season alone. It surely is no mere coincidence. In fact considering that our manager has a degree in physiotherapy and has some knowledge and expertise in that field, this is an embarrassment.

It must be his training methods surely. Plus the fact that he got rid of most of the medical department last season as well can't have helped.

Didn't he get rid of Danny Donachie the head of medicine last season as well who had been at the club since the beginning of the Moyes era?

I'd get in an idependent medical/fitness team to take a detailed look at the training and medical practices to see if we can improve.