What use is a Physio?
by Thomas on January 12, 2010
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Backroom staff on Football Manager have evolved to be a major part of your game experience, from advice to coaching they are just as important as the players on the pitch. But still there is one role in the staffroom that has not evolved and can be as useless as an international coaching team. The physio needs a change of job description in Football Manager and they need it now.
What Does the Physio do?
The physio is responsible for healing injury, the better the physio the more accurate his diagnosis and supposedly the quicker your player will recover.The physio is one attribute, physiotherapy. Many sides of differing quality can pick up a physio with a 20 attribute with young regens with little else of quality other then this, and there is nothing else that defines the quality of the man.
Do physios do much more? What are your thoughts when it comes to their roles, do you have a player to physio ratio? as I heard that maybe their is only a so many injuries one many can handle, although I have not seen anything to back this up. One of the first moves I made at Spurs was to cull the massive number of physios in the background only to leave me with 3 of the best with the ability to mutually terminate contracts when you arrive at a new club. This doesn’t seem to have had much affect on the amount of injuries I suffered or the time it took to heal them.
What More Could he Possible Do?
3 ways in which I would like to see the physio improved would be;
- Interaction with the coaches
Training has been a major issue for me this year, not because it is bad but because it just doesn’t match the quality of the rest of the game. I would love to see reports through the season that advise on a player who could possibly needs to go a bit easier in training. Pre-season reports that say your player needs to improve fitness and strength in order to cope with the new season and advise how best to do this. But the physio should also be preventing injuries not just firefighting, what are these guys doing in the back ground when you have a full bill of health?
- Alternative Therapies
Its always controversial, but managers think they are a good idea. Willing to use cutting edge techniques if it helps dish them back onto the field quicker, the recent trend has been horse placenta treatment, previous it has been weightless chambers and the list will continue to grow. I am a big fan of having staff gain skills and knowledge of their own from their in-game interactions, this can make the physio more valuable, giving something a little more personal then just analysing numbers.
- Players longevity
Hot discussion point on the community at the moment is player longevity in Football Manager 2010. Another concept I want to see more of, is decisions in the game by the manager having more longer term ramifications. Getting a good physio on board could mean the careers of players stretching even further then ever before, so injury prone players maybe able to get 3 more seasons of top flight football if they had a good physio at the team. I don’t think Maldini and a host of Milan players would have had the same amount of success if it wasn’t for a good infrastructure behind the scenes.
I think there is still much debate that can be had about physios, they really need a bigger role in the game, but does anyone know what affects they actually have, would it matter to have one man with a 10 physiotherapy? Surely it wouldn’t hurt too much to allow them their own profile attributes in order to do an affective job and give them more value, so I too can sing “Who needs the Mourinho, when we’ve got a physio!” to the computer screen. Leave a comment below regarding what you think of the physio and if they are really worth having at the club?
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What use is a Physio?
by Thomas on January 12, 2010
Do you like this post?
Backroom staff on Football Manager have evolved to be a major part of your game experience, from advice to coaching they are just as important as the players on the pitch. But still there is one role in the staffroom that has not evolved and can be as useless as an international coaching team. The physio needs a change of job description in Football Manager and they need it now.
What Does the Physio do?
The physio is responsible for healing injury, the better the physio the more accurate his diagnosis and supposedly the quicker your player will recover.The physio is one attribute, physiotherapy. Many sides of differing quality can pick up a physio with a 20 attribute with young regens with little else of quality other then this, and there is nothing else that defines the quality of the man.
Do physios do much more? What are your thoughts when it comes to their roles, do you have a player to physio ratio? as I heard that maybe their is only a so many injuries one many can handle, although I have not seen anything to back this up. One of the first moves I made at Spurs was to cull the massive number of physios in the background only to leave me with 3 of the best with the ability to mutually terminate contracts when you arrive at a new club. This doesn’t seem to have had much affect on the amount of injuries I suffered or the time it took to heal them.
What More Could he Possible Do?
3 ways in which I would like to see the physio improved would be;
Training has been a major issue for me this year, not because it is bad but because it just doesn’t match the quality of the rest of the game. I would love to see reports through the season that advise on a player who could possibly needs to go a bit easier in training. Pre-season reports that say your player needs to improve fitness and strength in order to cope with the new season and advise how best to do this. But the physio should also be preventing injuries not just firefighting, what are these guys doing in the back ground when you have a full bill of health?
Its always controversial, but managers think they are a good idea. Willing to use cutting edge techniques if it helps dish them back onto the field quicker, the recent trend has been horse placenta treatment, previous it has been weightless chambers and the list will continue to grow. I am a big fan of having staff gain skills and knowledge of their own from their in-game interactions, this can make the physio more valuable, giving something a little more personal then just analysing numbers.
Hot discussion point on the community at the moment is player longevity in Football Manager 2010. Another concept I want to see more of, is decisions in the game by the manager having more longer term ramifications. Getting a good physio on board could mean the careers of players stretching even further then ever before, so injury prone players maybe able to get 3 more seasons of top flight football if they had a good physio at the team. I don’t think Maldini and a host of Milan players would have had the same amount of success if it wasn’t for a good infrastructure behind the scenes.
I think there is still much debate that can be had about physios, they really need a bigger role in the game, but does anyone know what affects they actually have, would it matter to have one man with a 10 physiotherapy? Surely it wouldn’t hurt too much to allow them their own profile attributes in order to do an affective job and give them more value, so I too can sing “Who needs the Mourinho, when we’ve got a physio!” to the computer screen. Leave a comment below regarding what you think of the physio and if they are really worth having at the club?
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