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Lucas Ness - possible patella tendon injury, due to see a specialist (p7)
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Gutted for the lad, hope he recovers well.0
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I had a patella tendon injury some years ago. I’m not an elite athlete, not quite anyway but it was a bastard to heal and took me months before it stopped twinging. Hope he heals faster.0
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Gutted for him, he is a real prospect.1
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we are just so persistently plagued by injuries .. is it really just us ?0
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Just seen that baseball pitcher Edwin Diaz suffered an injury to the same thing and is expected to miss the whole baseball season. I really hope that Lucas hasn't torn it.
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If Ness had a complete tear/rupture, I'd expect we would have heard about it.
Sadly, a complete rupture and 2 x ACL's is what Joe Gomez has suffered. Yet, due to nature of football, he's now not seen to be the same Joe as a few seasons ago and worth moving on.0 -
We'd have him back, wouldn't we?mendonca said:If Ness had a complete tear/rupture, I'd expect we would have heard about it.
Sadly, a complete rupture and 2 x ACL's is what Joe Gomez has suffered. Yet, due to nature of football, he's now not seen to be the same Joe as a few seasons ago and worth moving on.
Come home, Joe - you know you want to.
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No Oggy, don't forget we have Sam Lavelle returning end of season so can't see Gomez getting in the team.Oggy Red said:
We'd have him back, wouldn't we?mendonca said:If Ness had a complete tear/rupture, I'd expect we would have heard about it.
Sadly, a complete rupture and 2 x ACL's is what Joe Gomez has suffered. Yet, due to nature of football, he's now not seen to be the same Joe as a few seasons ago and worth moving on.
Come home, Joe - you know you want to.3 -
Selena Gomez will be better then Lavelle at the back.
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Any update from the club on Ness' injury?0
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Injury wouldn’t keep him out long, there was talk about maybe seeing him before the end of the season, but there is very little point. He’ll be back and ready to go in pre-season. All the talk of long term injury was not accurate.18
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Interesting. The club doesn't fancy giving us the (semi good) news?0
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Makes sense really, it's not like we have anything to play for. Let him recuperate properly and get ready for pre-season.Sage said:Injury wouldn’t keep him out long, there was talk about maybe seeing him before the end of the season, but there is very little point. He’ll be back and ready to go in pre-season. All the talk of long term injury was not accurate.1 -
Can anyone suggest why I keep getting notifications each time someone posts on this thread since April 9th? Thanks0
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At the top of the thread, on the right you should have a gold star... Click itwightaddick said:Can anyone suggest why I keep getting notifications each time someone posts on this thread since April 9th? Thanks
You've probably got the thread bookmarked0 -
You’re right, thank you FA0
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I like Ness, if I was thinking of recent defenders we have had he reminds me most of it would be Tom Lockyer. He’s quiet mobile and defends really well when having to run back towards our goal with his ability to control the ball and shift it when moving at pace.Scoham said:
Considering Lockyer could potentially be playing in the premiership next year, if Ness can get to that level we will have a decent player on our hands.2 -
I'm baffled as to why Ness has fallen so far, so soon. Last season he was thrust into the first team due to injuries and grabbed his chance with both hands. I wondered whether we'd be able to keep hold of him, or a championship club might take a punt on him. Fast forward 6 months and we'd be more likely to be receiving offers from regional conference teams.1
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He's still young, still learning his trade. I'm more concerned/annoyed with the likes of Thomas, Fraser etc.tangoflash said:I'm baffled as to why Ness has fallen so far, so soon. Last season he was thrust into the first team due to injuries and grabbed his chance with both hands. I wondered whether we'd be able to keep hold of him, or a championship club might take a punt on him. Fast forward 6 months and we'd be more likely to be receiving offers from regional conference teams.3 - Sponsored links:
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he's a shadow of the player who broke into the side last season. Would prefer Mitchell at the moment
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He was unlucky for the OG yesterday too, he has to go for that ball and it's hard to control exactly where it goes2
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He had a serious injury, sometimes it just takes a while to get your confidence and body back up and running! Chopping and changing managers and being in and out of the team does not help. He's young!
Hopefully, given time he will get back to the player we believe he can be.5 -
I think he would benefit from a loan.6
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I agree @Kap10
My partners son is at Uni doing Sports Science, I remember at his open day a couple of years ago the prof talking about helping with the rehab of an England woman team footballer who had a bad knee injury. Bottom line was the psychological rehab took as much effort and longer in time than the physical rehab. She was fine physically but didn't play with freedom without a lot of work and effort on the psychology from all involved.5 -
The disappointing for me yesterday is that it was his chance to shine. Hector has not been convincing and there is a place for grabs at CB in the first team. Yet he looked sloppy and I wondered if it was complacency. Hopefully not, just rustiness. Not playing the likes of him in U21s matches is a mistake imo. Needs to get match sharp.3
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I think so too… the confidence he gained from his previous loan spell is what carried him to perform so well after returning.PopIcon said:I think he would benefit from a loan.
A not insignificant injury at the end of the season followed by being dropped has pretty much drained all of that confidence he had built up. You can see it in how he plays.4 -
Interesting post. I think something like this is likely the cause of his loss of form because his previous good form was built on a surprisingly high level of good decision-making for one so young, and that seems,to have disappeared. He seems physically fine, no discernible loss of pace. Agree in principle a loan would do him good, but we will need cover first.WrightCharlie said:I agree @Kap10
My partners son is at Uni doing Sports Science, I remember at his open day a couple of years ago the prof talking about helping with the rehab of an England woman team footballer who had a bad knee injury. Bottom line was the psychological rehab took as much effort and longer in time than the physical rehab. She was fine physically but didn't play with freedom without a lot of work and effort on the psychology from all involved.0 -
Football is littered with young players who break through excitingly in their first season and then can't replicate it in their second. We've seen more than a few of them ourselves but it happens in every team. I'm not massively surprised it's happened to Ness (though I wasn't expecting him to be quite that bad yesterday) and there's plenty of time for him to calm down and settle. He might not though, some players can never get it back after that first breakthrough. I'd really like us to sign another centre back to play alongside Jones and compete with Hector as I think Ness needs to be one step further back from the first team while he's like this. A loan wouldn't hurt at all.
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I was foolish enough to believe Ness could cover for Hector, bit naive of me.
Seems miles off it now and probably needs a loan to National League or thereabouts.
It's got to a point where if Jones gets injured we are screwed. The only centre back left on the books I have a bit of confidence in0
