Injuries in FM12

Yesterday I just thought, today I am 100% sure the game has injury problems. I coached both AC Milan and City for 2 months and I had more than 30 injuries for both teams in total, one of them really long ones. Am I the only one experiencing this?

I am into October with my Arsenal save, and I have had 3 injuries in total, 1 major, 2 minor

is that just first team squad or including reserves and youth

I am all for more injuries. I'm sick of winning premiership with a 1st team squad of 18 players as i have on previous editions of FM.

I've been averaging 5 or 6 first teamers out at all times, injuries normally at least 6 weeks. This is much more realistic.

Only played two games but Owen is out for 3-4 months with a calf strain. However didn't really think too much about it as one would assume his injury probability is high in the game.

is that just first team squad or including reserves and youth

It is first team and reserve team, no youth. I didn't count those, I don't care about them in the demo.

That was just my first team squad

Haven't seen all that many injuries sofar in my save.

Had like 2 Injuries and I'm in October.

3-0 up in a league cup game (neither myself or my board are bothered about trying to win it) with 60 minutes played, have made all 3 subs when Kayal gets a red injury and gets stretchered off and at the exact same time Forest gets a green cross injury, no probs I'll just take him off by trying to sub him and the the usual message should pop up about all 3 subs having being used but do you want to take him off, except it doesn't.

I just get a message saying you've used all your subs, so a first team player has to hobble through 30 minutes of a meaningless game that we're winning easily anyway, risking aggravating the 'knock' and having him out for weeks if not months. Really hope the ability to take off a player carrying a knock subsequent to having made all 3 subs is not removed in the full game.

Now that would be stupid, that option should definitely be there :-( Never encountered the problem yet, however I hope that you are not right and we can still take the injured players off.

Seems fine to me, not had many injuries.

Seems to be a freak occurrence, I've been pretty fine with injuries in the saves I've done.

I've had 7 of my first 11 ruled out of the start of the season due to injury already. Surely it can't just be bad luck? Including reserves I've had 11 injuries before the end of July (playing in England)

3 more injuries in the first 2 matches...

Moaning about injuries? That's something new!

Beside basicly every AML i bring on the pitch gets injured at the moment, i don't have really injury problems.

However, when i look at the injury tables... Here the top 5 in amounts of injuries:

Dutch Eredivisie: 12 / 10 / 8 / 7 / 7

Jupiler League: 13 (of which 9 longer then 2 weeks) / 11 / 8 / 6 / 6

Looks to me like a lot of injuries... (this is at 16 Oct ingame)

What are your training schedules like?

They are not different at all from the ones I used in the past 3 years, when I had no issues with injuries (at least on patched versions).

Defenders:

Midfielders:

Forwards:

I seemed to have a lot of long term injuries happen at key positions. However looking at the injury table it didn't seem excessive. I just have a small squad so felt it much more.

I only experienced 5 injuries. Two of them are major and others are only minor. Only the first team but with reserve, theres not many injures. I think its only the freak incident you are experiencing

In both saves? Weird incident

I have had Ronaldo get hurt for Real Madrid twice once in training and another time in a game where i lost him and kaka both for 3-4 months also had nuri sahin get hurt and gonzalo higuain hurt too.

injuries are out of control... players going down for 5-8 weeks consistently... it's a bit much.

I dunno if it's just a random number generator accidentally going out of control for some of us, or what, but I just had one game where 4 of my players went down for multiple weeks. That's on top of the 4 I've already got down.

And a couple of them just refuse to stay healthy. They get half a game in after they're back and they're out for weeks again.

From bleacherreport.com, Sept 22nd: Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Robinho, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Massimo Ambrosini, Luca Antonini, Philippe Mexes, Gennaro Gattuso and Mathieu Flamini were all on the injured list Wednesday and now Pato joins that list, making things very difficult for those who have earned two draws and a loss in their first three Serie A games.

From BBC sport, 2009 It was a match which began with Darren Fletcher at right-back in the absence of Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, Jonny Evans and John O'Shea andfollowing the early exit of Brown and Neville - with a groin problem - United were left fielding an unfamiliar back-four.

Ryan Giggs was forced into playing at left-back, while Patrice Evra was pushed into the middle of defence to partner Carrick.

"Evra must be the smallest centre-half in the world, but he's a good reader of the game. He's quick and determined," Ferguson added.

Injuries can and do happen all the time.

I'm playing a game with a 3rd div team in Belgium in the demo and noticed I have heaps of injuries as well. I'm 4 games in the season and every league game I have at least 2 injuries per game. Not sure if it's a bug or just the fact that I'm in a lower division and my physio's and coaches are not that great.

Just looking through all the PL teams in my Liverpool game as of 20.11.11 there are only 49 injuries atm.

Havent noticed any issues in my games, if anything my team is in fantastic shape

I'm not having any problems either, no different from any other iteration of the game.

Every year somebody moans about having too many injuries.

I haven't had any problems with injuries so far. Maybe it's because you overload the players with friendlies in the beginning? I rarely play more than 3-4 friendlies during the summer, always around a week apart, as I find it more important to get my guys up to around 100% after getting back from holidays.

I've been averaging 5 or 6 first teamers out at all times, injuries normally at least 6 weeks. This is much more realistic.

You are kidding, right? How is that realistic? Look at any big team in real life and you will see 1, maybe 2 first team players out at most times.. But generally, I would say none. And the occasional long-term injury.

I actually blitzed through a game just being on holiday at all times to see what happens. After 4 seasons, I found 3 interesting examples:

1. Rooney had been out for 4 months twice, and for 2 months 2 more times! Plus tons of other little injuries.. That means he couldn't play a total of 12+ months of the 36..

2. At the end of season 5, Barcelona had - watch this - 16 injured players of the 31 on their roster..

3. I kinda looked at an average of big teams (Barca, Real, MU etc) and found that each team had at least 5 injuries that lasted at least 4 months per season! Now where do you see that in real life? That's like having Messi, Xavi, Pique, Villa and Dani Alves all injured for 4 months in one season. Tell me that's realistic.

You are kidding, right? How is that realistic? Look at any big team in real life and you will see 1, maybe 2 first team players out at most times.. But generally, I would say none. And the occasional long-term injury.

Is it totally unrealistic that Man Utd have ten first team players unavailable for today? Tottenham: long term Dawson and Huddlestone, medium Karnjcar and Corluka, doubtful for next game Bale, Defoe, very doubtful King. Just off the top of my head: Liverpool long term Gerrard, Lucas out for the season... Arsenal, long term Wilshire, Sagna, out today Diaby, Andre Santos...

Recently out for the season: Vidic, Jenas, Steven Taylor from Newcastle, Grygera from Fulham.

(Edit) Just checked with the paper and apparently Steven Taylor's injury doesn't seem to be as serious as earlier reports and he may not be out for the season.

Interesting how 10 first team players are unavailable for today for MU but Ferdinand, Evra, Valencia, Carrick, Nani and Rooney were on the field. So at least 5 of tese 6 are not first team players, huh?

You're using examples that are exceptions (and exagerating too).. Make an average for, say, all the top 8-teams in at least 10 championships around Europe and I bet you'll get an average of about 2 injured athletes in the first 11, and maybe another 2 from the rest of the team. Not 1 injury every second game like in FM 12