Great post TM! 
Cotch was over trained right from the start. We are lucky Dimma and his crew came along and rescued him from being just another broken footballer. Look at Moore's current condition. He had a long stint under Wallace. It would be interesting if the stats are available as to how many injuries were sustained during Wallets years as compared to Dimma.
The words "Osteits Pubis" and "indefinite" used to send shivers down my spine as you'd never know when a player with OP would return. Thank God those days are behind us. (touch wood)
I agree with a lot of what Monk said - just throwing the info out there for discussion
Just on Cotchin being over trained; we need to be fair there tiga, the person who over trained Cotchin was Cotchin and he admitted that, he was given a modified training program to follow one pre-season during his break and he went and did stuff outside it...
Moore: he said last season at a pre-match that I was at that part of his hip condition is caused by a de-generation (sp?) of his hip joint, hard to blame anyone for that
You mention about "Dimma & his crew" coming along and rescuing the players from becoming "broken footballers" what's interesting with that comment is the fact that we have the same head of fitness bloke now (Hornsby) that we had under Wallace (actually I think all but 1 were there under Wallace).
IMV what that highlights is that each coach comes in tells the fitness folks what they want and then it is up to the fitness gurus to implement the programs needed. So like you I'd be interested in seeing injury numbers; especially those from the pre-season to see what impact if any change in coach therefore fitness regime has on a club's injury run
