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Injuries
Jul 16, 2022 18:59:10 GMT
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Jul 16, 2022 18:59:10 GMT
He was injured when he joined and other than the 20/21 season he's missed games because of niggles. There was an article in the Sentinel that pointed out that over his career he's played an average of 16 games a season mainly because of injuries - which is an appalling. I'm not saying it is his fault but to claim Powell isn't injury prone isn't borne out by his track record. If you ignore his time at Man Utd where he was never going to be a regular, Powell's games record is: Crewe 19 (in his debut season) and 45. Wigan: 41, 22, 45, 32 Stoke: 30, 42, 21 I am not sure how the Sentinel manage to make that average 16 (but there again it is the Sentinel) I don't know where the Sentinel got its figured but yours appear to be cup and league appearances rather than just league.
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Post by tachyon on Jul 17, 2022 9:18:52 GMT
If you ignore his time at Man Utd where he was never going to be a regular, Powell's games record is: Crewe 19 (in his debut season) and 45. Wigan: 41, 22, 45, 32 Stoke: 30, 42, 21 I am not sure how the Sentinel manage to make that average 16 (but there again it is the Sentinel) I don't know where the Sentinel got its figured but yours appear to be cup and league appearances rather than just league. Both are factually correct. The Sentinel's 16 appears to be based on the number of mins played, which are then converted to full 90 minute games for his career, which are then converted to full 90 minute games per season (may or may not include cup games). His 19 at Crewe in his debut season are games where he got onto the field (mostly for the last 5 minutes) and includes one EFL Trophy and one FA Cup games. His total mins for that season was just 320 or 3.5 full games. So it's easy to see where the two approaches diverge. You add even more confusion if you add the twelve 2010/11 games when he was an unused sub (and presumably fit to play) and 19 becomes 31. 3.5 90 minutes or 19 games when he played some part or 31 games where he was in the matchday squad in his debut season. Which is most useful? He was used twice in the PL by MU in 12/13 for 34 mins, but was on the bench and unused five times. He was in the squad in 10 of a possible 30 age limited MU games. So sort that out from an injury perspective. It gets just as murky if you instead try to record weeks lost to injury. Transfermarkt get a few links on here, but they list NP as having had just two career injuries. One in 13/14 and one in 15/16 where he was out for a total of 27 weeks. He appears injury free since having knee surgery in Aug 2015 at MU (or a serious hamstring problem if you use Wiki). Another source lists 14 individual career injuries and two bouts of illness totalling 162 weeks, including an eye injury lasting 279 days! That's a data difference between two websites of over 2.5 years worth of injury. Getting good data is....challenging.
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