[h=3]Poyet seeks end to hamstring hoodoo[/h] 5:35pm Wednesday 10th April 2013 in Albion By Andy Naylor
Will Buckley goes off injured against Leicester
Albion boss Gus Poyet fears the club’s hamstring hoodoo will persist until the training ground move.
Wingers Will Buckley and Kazenga LuaLua were affected by hamstring injuries against Leicester on Saturday.
It has been a recurring worry for both players and Poyet believes the problem could be partly connected to the inconsistency between pitches at the current training ground at Falmer and The Amex.
He said: “It’s not coincidence. There have been plenty of studies about it and, because we have the kind of players who are very explosive, we’ve been studying it.
“Definitely the quantity of games doesn’t help, because then you don’t have time to recover.
“Then, if we had the opportunity to train and play on the same surface with the same weather, that would help as well.
“Where we train, one day it is very wet and the next morning it’s completely frozen and then the next morning you come to The Amex and it’s different.
“That has an impact on the very explosive players who need to start and stop and go again. They pay the price.
“We have been measuring how firm the grass is from one side to the other and, until we get to the training ground, where we are going to have two pitches similar to The Amex, I think it’s going to be difficult.”
Albion are scheduled to move into their new £29 million training ground at Lancing in the summer of 2014.
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Albion boss Gus Poyet fears the club’s hamstring hoodoo will persist until the training ground move.
Wingers Will Buckley and Kazenga LuaLua were affected by hamstring injuries against Leicester on Saturday.
It has been a recurring worry for both players and Poyet believes the problem could be partly connected to the inconsistency between pitches at the current training ground at Falmer and The Amex.
He said: “It’s not coincidence. There have been plenty of studies about it and, because we have the kind of players who are very explosive, we’ve been studying it.
“Definitely the quantity of games doesn’t help, because then you don’t have time to recover.
“Then, if we had the opportunity to train and play on the same surface with the same weather, that would help as well.
“Where we train, one day it is very wet and the next morning it’s completely frozen and then the next morning you come to The Amex and it’s different.
“That has an impact on the very explosive players who need to start and stop and go again. They pay the price.
“We have been measuring how firm the grass is from one side to the other and, until we get to the training ground, where we are going to have two pitches similar to The Amex, I think it’s going to be difficult.”
Albion are scheduled to move into their new £29 million training ground at Lancing in the summer of 2014.
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