Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Mel Eves on Baggies - Birmingham Mail

Mel Eves Column: West Bromwich Albion exercise levels are a good example for rest of Premier League Mel Eves Hereas an interesting statistic. With 30 Premier League games played before yesterday, West Bromwich Albion had 14 players with significantly more than five first-team begins this season. That speaks of a consistency in exercise levels and nowadays selection policy at The Hawthorns which will be seldom observed in football. It certainly says that the Baggies used something like 14-15 first-choice first-team players in addressing eighth place in the dining table. There are certainly a lot of Premier League clubs, especially those playing in the Championsa League, working with 24-25 first-team players. Though some of this is down seriously to the increased use of squad-rotation, a lot of it speaks to the elephant in the place of top-flight baseball these days a' keeping people on the park. West Brom may hold that comparatively small group of first-choice players fit and healthy for the vast majority of the growing season so why, with vast amounts of income being spent on armies of off-field support staff, sports professionals and so on, do we see so many players lacking significant amounts of playing time with non-contact injuries? Effectively done to Albion for showing how it must be done.

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