General manager of football operations Lee O’Neill says the club’s medical and sports science staff will put together a report on the club’s injury situation during the season with the Blues again having lost several players to fitness problems over the course of the campaign.
Tom Adeyemi suffered an achilles injury in pre-season and failed to feature at all fir the first team, as did Emyr Huws, who has been out since December 2017 with a knee problem, while Grant Ward, Freddie Sears and Ben Morris all had their seasons curtailed by ACL injuries and Ben Folami by an achilles problem.
In addition, loanees Jon Walters (achilles) and Matthew Pennington (ankle) had their seasons - and in the Irish international’s case his career - ended by injuries.
It was hardly the first time the Blues have suffered an injury-hit season with the previous campaigns also hampered by the loss of players to long-term problems.
Questioned on whether that situation would be assessed, O’Neill, at one-time the club's head of sports science, told TWTD: "All the time, again the medical team will do an annual report with the sports science team on all injuries.
"We have to, we have to look at all of those things and not let them occur for the following season.
"We go through everything right from training load, intensities, to what the players are wearing on their feet, the particular time they got injured.
"For us there is a particular element of the unfortunate when you look at the number of serious injuries that we’ve had with ACLs or achilles tears and things like that, they’re really serious injuries.
"If you break it down and look at soft tissue injuries, there’s actually been a massive reduction in the number of soft tissue injuries we’ve had and how we analyse those from the sports science side of things and the medical side of things - the injury prevention, the recovery strategies, the way we monitor intensity of training.
"They’re things that we’re constantly evaluating. Do we need to make improvements on them? Yes we do, but we’re doing that [in terms of] the infrastructure of the training ground and obviously the personnel itself. We’re looking at all of those areas.”