Double leg break confirmed for McCarthy

Jimmy Mac, stay brave, our prayers and best wishes are with you for a full recovery. This is truly a cursed season for Everton, just hope we come out of this with our Premier League status intact.

From what I can remember, McCarthy played himself into trouble in the half-way line and was determined to make amends chasing back, but at a terrible cost to himself. He has not had much luck this last couple of seasons and now this.

I hope you get well soon and come back better.

Best wishes.

I'm sure you were hoping for a change of luck with the New Year so this is a real blow.

Best of wishes on the road to recovery.

Probably game over if he doesn't make that tackle. Considering his injury issues over the last couple of years, that willingness to put himself in harm's way is a true measure of the lad's character.

A huge loss for us, because he always gives 100%. Our prayers are with you James, and hope you make a full recovery, you're one of my favourite players.

Feel so sorry for the lad. He gives his all to get fit and then this happened. It wouldn't surprise me if this knocked the stuffing right out of him and he retired. I really hope he doesn't though. :(

It is a sickener and I do not give a toss about a no mark performance and a no mark result under a no mark manager.

Feel dreadful for McCarthy and I truly curse out luck with injuries and how many serious ones we have had.

Southall missing the cup final in 86, Jags missing 2009 final with a cruciate (still remember him screaming when he went down), Joe Parkinson's career cut short at its prime, Arteta never being the same again after his knee injury, Coleman's horrendous break, Bolasie's injury, Barkley with a double fracture at 17, Super Kev's knee giving way, even Don Hutch suffered a bad one.

I appreciate over a period of 30 years in a sport such as this it may be par for the course but the superstitious side of me still thinks we are hexed, and every injury brings out painful reminders of those injuries to key players from years gone by.

On a seperate note, the Live Forum plumbed atrociously low depths today. Bemoaning that McCarthy was not moved on on the day of his dreadful injury is cynical nonsense of the worst sort. Posters wishing injuries on Schneiderlin was also crass rubbish of the very highest order.

Back to the game. Everton never run out of ways to disappoint. I feel like a guy whose missus is shagging the milkman, then the baker, the guy next door (both sides) and STILL I take her back, cos I love her.

Finally, another one in the eye for the Niasse haters. Sure he sometimes looks like Bambi on Ice, but he knows where the goal is... Oumar, Oumar, Oumar!!!

These people must have pretty bad lives to want to post such vitriol. I am very upset for James,a good honest lad and let's all hope he makes a full recovery.

I can't help but feel that this injury was caused by his own teammates today. Not directly in the lead up but more so in their actions and lack of effort and passion. Macca felt the need to go win that ball because he will run himself into the ground for anyone, a proud player. No-one else on the field today would have even thought of making that tackle. They are all too soft and don't care for anything.

The team stinks and has done for some time. This injury is a direct result of nobody caring and hoping someone else cleans up the mess. Under Moyes, this shit did not happen, you had a nod and you did it simple, as no room for mistakes and for soft players. Heads up and be counted is what they did.

I hope some of the players take a real hard look at themselves tonight and think "I am to blame for that injury and possibly career ended."

I'm shocked at the level we have sunk to...

One also sort of thinks the paycheck these players get is deserved when one sees this kind of mutilation on the field.

One former top (Norwegian) shelf player here in Norway is paralyzed from the neck and down after an "accident" in a game some 10 years ago. I bet there are many sports invalids around the world.

Sure there are others I've forgotten all within the last 10 years.

I am too disenchanted by Everton currently to research other teams' injury records, but I'd be willing to bet you'd be hard pushed to find another side so cursed by severe long-term injuries over the past 10 seasons as we have been.

And just this season Stekelenburg (not that we have needed him but still), Baines, Barkley all also unavailable for selection for 3 months or more.

As somebody said on the Live Forum, if we didn't have bad luck, we'd have no luck at all!

Of course a lot rides on the skills of the medical professionals who have to help him accomplish that recovery so we can only wish for the best at this moment in time.

Sounds like a really bad injury, hopefully he can come back fitter and stronger from it. Get well soon, lad.

The club needs to replace him now though. If Besic is not calm / consistent enough to play, then we have nobody of sufficient stature allied to mobility to provide a meaningful defensive presence in midfield.

Like some others have mentioned, this could spell the end for him at this or any other level; fingers crossed we may be wrong.

All the very best, Macca. We will be cheering you on.

And due respect to Rondon, who was in tears after the incident and again after the game. Blameless, but no player ever forgets seeing and hearing something like that, literally beneath his feet.

Eddie #9, you are correct, that's what compound means. It's a horror. Worsens the injury because of additional tissue damage and risk of infection. Dave #16 and Amit #14; agree wholeheartely.

Bad day.

Some people liked to knock you but I actually thought you are a great player and our best midfielder.

I hope you make a full recovery and get back to your best.

All the very best to you.

Wishing him as speedy a recovery as possible with the support of all those around him at the club; including EFC supporters.

I hope Macca manages to get through this period and that the club/fans rally round to support him, as I'm sure they will. Get well soon, James McCarthy.

I always want total commitment from our players.... but I wish he hadn't made that tackle, even if it did save a goal.

I don't know if the cameras picked it up or not, but Rondon was in a terrible state. He was right down below us and he was distraught.

I felt for him too, he did nothing wrong from where I was sat, but his reaction told us all that this was a bad one.

Best wishes to Macca. I feel gutted for him

Just really tragic to see such an injury again, hope he can eventually make a full recovery and that having teammates like Seamus can help him through it.

Like Rob (#34), I thought he was one of our better performers today and one of a few who did show desire and commitment to his own cost.

Good luck James, looking forward to seeing you in the Royal Blue shirt sometime next season.

Goes to way how shite the dressing room is these day's and it reflect's on the pitch!!

I miss the integrity amd team spirit Moyes brought to the club it's not the same since he left we're a hollow team!

He sees himself as a" tell it as it is proper Evertonian guy", He is actually a semi-literate braggart and the editors should look at the forum today and deal with him.

I was disappointed that all the players were all gathered well away from James and that no-one bUt Mason went to him as he was carried off.

Yes, this one was beyond the pale:

Tony Marsh 20/01/2018 : 16:57:25 "Shite that but why oh why hasn't sick note McCarthy been moved on by now..Another year draining the clubs resources. He is an accident waiting to happen..Career now over we pick up the tab."

Good luck to James he is a fighter and will use Seamus as an example of how to recover.

https://twitter.com/salorondon23/status/954796784504770560E

He can't and won't come back the same player now, so he'll need to adjust his game, but the boy is talented and can still become a legend at Goodison.

After calling for the pass today he blithely stepped over it, lost it cheaply and left James to try and chase back. I'd either sell him for whatever in the next 10 days or terminate his contract.

I think all true fans will wish James McCarthy a speedy and full recovery. I can't agree that it is any players fault. J Mc was doing his best for the team today and was so unlucky.

Whether you like him as a player or not, he has always given his all if not his best for the cause. I would take 11 James McCarthy's over 1 Lionel Messi and 10 shirkers any day. It's a team game and sadly we don't have one.

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Pains me that the hard nosed Scot/Irish bad-ass ball winning monster was so badly hurt today. Dude has brought me a lot of joy. Always did the unheralded, non-glamorous ball-winning stuff every midfield needs... Never any fanfare or accolades. Just put his nose down and played tough as nails.

Dude should have played hockey...

Get well fast James.

Even on my patchy internet feed, I could see Rondon and his colleagues' exemplary quick reaction to the injury. Hats off to them and get well soon Macca.

I believe Everton have a state-of-the-art recovery apparatus specifically for leg breaks which was brought in for Seamus. Looking forward to seeing you back.

Side note. Rondon, obviously distressed seemed to go on afterward and sill put in a very good performance. That's a very good sign of a professional. He could have gone to bits but got himself back together. An example to some of our players...

Kudos to Rondon, too, for being genuinely upset but going on to deliver an excellent performance – so nearly capping it with a goal.

Naturally, I join everyone in wishing James strength on the long road to (what I hope is) a full recovery.

I've no problem with candour but comments like those quoted from Tony Marsh are beyond the realm – it was good that so many of us pointed this out to him yesterday. We should all continue to do this when someone strays beyond the realm, it seems about the only way to silence a self appointed provocateur with a keyboard.

While obviously the lack of movement did not actively cause the extremely unfortunate injury, it is indicative of the extent of our malaise. Players do not want the ball, do not trust one another, and unless we can inject some energy, some courage and – in basic terms – some off-the-ball running from our players then we will not improve.

As many said on here, some vile comments on the live forum yesterday. Never like seeing Blue on Blue, or players being talked about in that way.

We are all suffering this season. It's a game, and for all of the frustration it will improve.

The worst thing about this case is that it was a "compound" fracture, meaning the bone pierced the skin. This usually means more soft tissue damage, higher risk of infection (a nightmare in bone injuries) and longer recovery.

However, the break was probably fairly 'clean' (rather than shattered) and hopefully will be straightforward for the surgeons to repair. They'll probably use a pin. I'd guess there's a very good chance he'll make a full recovery. Several top footballers have from similar fractures. Fingers crossed.

http://www.givemesport.com/1242249-stan-collymores-assessment-of-the-rondon-mccarthy-incident-is-just-disgraceful?autoplay=on

Allardyce has said there will be no more signings this month!! Frightening considering we've got no left back and a very unreliable central defence and no McCarthy.