Fremantle deny that they did not try to win the game and blame injuries and an inexperienced team for their poor performance.

You hate to blame injuries but the Bucs have been hit hard in some areas, which has made for a choppy stop-start kind of season.

He spent the last two years at Liverpool lazing around the pitch and blaming injuries for his woeful form (despite fantastic support I might add).

It's not as if you can blame injuries either.

The league's coaches are left to field teams of inexperienced players, blaming injuries and national-team duty for less-than-scintillating games.

His sense of regret seeped out on the season's final day, as Thomas, in his strongest terms yet, blamed injuries for his team's demise.

Lansford blamed injuries for the team's decline.

"It was a huge change," said Torre, who blamed injuries for Boston's demise.

Testaverde, an old-school quarterback who avoids blaming injuries or other upheavals, said one of the Jets' problems is obvious.

Uncomfortable about blaming injuries, he still said they "kind of threw us off a little bit."