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Another long-term injury!
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Just heard on Radio 2 that Dan Gosling is out for 9 months!! Is it me or do we get more than our fair share of these type of what I would call reckless challenges (by the opposition) resulting in long term injuries to our players? — Victor springs to mind.
Does anyone have the stats with regard to how many of our players have suffered these type of injuries as opposed to how many of these type of injuries our players have subjected opposition players to?
I know people blame Dan for poor first touch and goalies have to do what ever they can to keep out a shot but am I alone in feeling that Hahnemanns challenge was reckless — I know that I would have a pretty good idea that if I throw my 14 stone? (Hahnemanns weight — not mine) on to an outstretched leg, I am likely to do some serious damage to it — imagine if this sort of challenge had been by an outfield player or on an Arsenal player.
Jeff Magee, Posted 31/03/2010 at 16:13:00
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Begs the question .... why was he left on the field? and what damage did that foolish decision add to the length of his injury?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/mar/31/everton-dan-gosling-injury
Are we the unluckiest team going for long term bloody injuries?
Personally I am disappointed as I hate to see any of our players get bad injuries, but especially the younger ones. What do you think?
Good luck, Dan.
Sorry just living up to the moaning Everton supporter, but is it surprising with luck like this?
On a different note, does anyone know how long his contract has left to run? I read somewhere that his contract was extended last season until 2012 but elsewhere I have read that Standard Liege were interested in signing him as his contract was up in the summer.
http://www.evertonfc.com/forum/showthread.php?206-Standard-Liege-set-to-offer-Dan-Gosling-a-shock-move
If he is out of contract in the summer, I guess this injury is likely to put any move on hold until he recovers.
Didn't he do some damage to the same knee in Greece? Had he healed fully? Conjecture, just hope the lads gets well soon.
What is it with Knees and ligaments and Everton players?
Is there no mercy?
Get well soon Goose!
Yakubu scores 20 goals then gets injured for a year.
Jagielka is our best defender and gets injured for a year.
Arteta is our best player and gets injured for a year.
Gosling won't exactly be missed anymore than we missed Anichebe.
What is puzzling me is why they are so sure that the prognosis is 9 months out. When Arteta's and Jagielka's injuries were diagnosed, they were both expected to be out for 6 months, and then complications delayed their returns. If the Goose's minimum period is 9 months, it must be very serious indeed.
It's really a shame to hear this, though. I thought Gosling was really making progress this year, the highlight of which being the goal against Man U.
He was going to leave on a free at the end of the season, until that unfortunate knee injury on Saturday.
I'm a massive fan of David Moyes, he's a hero to me, but when he waved Gosling back on to mark space. I remember thinking 'This is fucking madness!' That has proved a REAL error of judgement and has cost poor Dan Gosling dearly.
Best wishes Dan on a complete recovery.
With these types of injuries, once the damage is done it is irrelevent wether the player continues to hobble around or not, he could not have caused further damage. Granted he was in pain so it was very brave of him to stay on.
But first: Chin up Gozz, be patient, get back. Even in the super-high speed collision world of American grid-iron football, guys come back from your injury.
He's got age on his side. Best of luck, get back stronger and he'll probably be more street-wise too. Protect yourself. COYB
More Evertonian paranoia.
One quick point, I don't know how he carried on (as when I did mine last year there was no way I could have carried on) but he couldn't have done much more if any further damage as, once its ruptured, its ruptured. I actually had a couple of weeks off and returned to training and even made a goalscoring substitute appearance before collapsing again!
It's a strange injury, very serious for a sportsman but if you didn't play sport or do anything too physical you could leave it and just build up the muscles around the knee to make up for it.
Can't really blame the keeper either, it was an unfortunate challenge that a slightly different decision from either player would have had a totally different outcome. Best of luck and a speedy recovery, Dan!
I wonder what would have been given if someone of the Yak's build went into the keeper in the same fashion?
I hope he recovers, and recovers well. But even some of the best players were never the same after an injury like this one.
Good luck, Dan.
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Arteta, Jagielka, Anichebe, Yakubu, Fellaini, Gosling have all now had very serious injuries. Not to mention conciderable lay offs for Neville, Osman and Vaughan. Something isn't right, we must have angered the footballing Gods!