Latest Injury (and Recovery!) Mews

MrsGrey

I doubt it's a contract issue - more likely to be the law of the land, I'd have thought? You can't sack someone from their job for being ill/injured.

And quite right to, imo.

steve

;hmm just hope we don't need points in our last 2 games ,otherwise we will be pinning all our hopes on super carroll

Cuz1

MrsGrey said:

I doubt it's a contract issue - more likely to be the law of the land, I'd have thought? You can't sack someone from their job for being ill/injured.

And quite right to, imo.

But think they could stop company sick pay ;whistle

BubblesNeverDies

Suzanne
"Lettuce turns out to as enjoyable as chocolate"

What do you mean "turns out to (be)"? ;biggrin

SuzanneClaret

;nonono

MunichHammer

I actually prefer lettuce to chocolate

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

With lettuce, I find I can take it or leaf it.

Hammerwombat

Have you ever dipped chocolate in Brandy? I can strongly recommend it. ;biggrin

grey_til_I_dye

I dunno, wombat, you toffs... ;wink

Giant_Hammer

I can't remember where I read it yesterday and I didn't read the article because I get irrationally cross about it but the headline said that AC is sunning himself abroad at the moment.

Hammerex

Lets hope he doesn't pull a muscle building a sand castle.

MrsGrey

Forward Carroll, .... has been pictured on holiday in Barbados with his leg in a protective boot.

Birmingham Mail

Cuz1

Well why not it’s not as if he’s available for selectiion

IronHerb

Seems reasonable.

AdMeus_CaputFilius

Lets hope he has a storming last two or three games at the end of the season, so someone come in with an offer that cannot be refused to take him off our hands.... ;wink

Hammerdublin

Trying to figure out if Byram is injured and "will be missing for the rest of the season", as Claret & Hugh reported (http://www.claretandhugh.info/moyes-hit-by-massive-injury-double-blow), or it is just a rumour. He is not even mentioned as injured on Physioroom (https://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/epl_injury_table.php#c20). Does anybody know anything about it?

OldCastleSwift

It's Hugh Southon so every chance it's rubbish.

But it's also West Ham so every chance it's entirely true.

MrsGrey

Physioroom only aggregate reports from elsewhere in the (mainstream) media.

IronHerb

Reid out for the rest of the season and Byram maybe joining him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43319196

Hammerdublin

BBC are now confirming Byram's injury: http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43319196

Pearces_Left_Foot

Reid out for rest of season aswell :-(

Hammerdublin

So we are left with three CBs: Collins, Ogbonna and Rice... ;hmm

ASLEFshrugged

And Cresswell

SuzanneClaret

;weep

OldCastleSwift

Can't even play Kouyate there as we have no CMs to cover him.

This club.

SuzanneClaret

He was pants... he hasn't got better because he is now pants in China.

IronHerb

Oggy and Ginge are our first choice pairing at the moment and both should be fit for Saturday.

Pengeman

Reid our for the rest of season and probably Byram too

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11685/11279809/winston-reid-out-for-remainder-of-west-hams-season-with-knee-injury

Testing times. Can we recall Oxford, Burke? Can anyone else step up at thus this crucial time?

welovethehammers

OldCastleSwift said:

Can't even play Kouyate there as we have no CMs to cover him.

This club.

You've summed up the problem right there. Our squad is so thin that if we are short on CB's, we take Rice out of midfield and then become short on CM's/DM's.

We then become short on CM's so we play a RB (Zabaleta) in CM.

Byram then gets injured and we are now short on RB''s.

Then we move Kouyate to CB. Etc.

I feel Zab can do a job in CM, and Rice is pretty versatile too. However when half of your team are playing out of position that's when the problems start (even if they can do a job there). I think it's fine to play a player out of position if he can do a job in there but it becomes problematic when we have 2 or more players in the team that are also playing out of their favoured/natural position.

OldCastleSwift

Welove ;ok

With a squad as brittle as ours, we desperately needed to strengthen in January. Now we find ourselves in an all too familiar position of scratching around for a match-day 18 in the midst of a relegation fight.