Big Impact Player Injuries

[SmiffyPie]

Promotion that season may well have changed everything with a knock-on effect for the whole of English football.

Be interested in that?

[upthemaggies]

Be interested in that?

Don't get me started. Suffice to say Fwords gates had gone down 3 seasons in a row at the end of 75/76, ours were going up to surpass them. Also factor in Clough had failed badly at both Leeds and Brighton, so pressure on him would have been amplified had we maintained the challenge and gone up in 76. Things might have turned out very differently indeed.

[nw6pie]

The big unknown is Lucas Ness. We’ve spent money on him, on a 3-year deal (with 1-year extension clause), even though he’s recovering from a “minor ankle injury”, so let’s hope we haven’t got another Dave Robinson/Ben Burgess on our hands.

I trust the current medical team a bit more than the past ones, though.

[forwardmagpie]

Iain McCulloch - say no more.

I fully agree, he was my favourite ever player.
It was a disaster that he suffered such a career ending injury.

[1955pie]

What are the chances of that? I've never heard of a player retire early because of concussion.

Concussion is a brain injury and should not be taken lightly. It can persist. It can recur.

[slack_pie]

Concussion is a brain injury and should not be taken lightly. It can persist. It can recur.

I'm not saying we should take it lightly. Just saying it must be pretty rare given that I can't think of a single instance of a player retiring early due to concussion.

[Kent Magpie]

I'm not saying we should take it lightly. Just saying it must be pretty rare given that I can't think of a single instance of a player retiring early due to concussion.

I think that may be as much to do with a lack of understanding / desire to address it within the game, than it not happening. There are a number of ex players who are seeing symptoms of reduced brain function - Alan Shearer did a documentary on it and was surprised at how much his brain seemed to be not working. Add to that the likes of Stephen Darby (?) who are suffering with terminal illnesses and I don't think you can say nobody retired from concussion as if it never happened... these players should have retired but didn't.

Now we know that they should have retired, I suspect we will see it start to be a thing.

[slack_pie]

I think that may be as much to do with a lack of understanding / desire to address it within the game, than it not happening. There are a number of ex players who are seeing symptoms of reduced brain function - Alan Shearer did a documentary on it and was surprised at how much his brain seemed to be not working. Add to that the likes of Stephen Darby (?) who are suffering with terminal illnesses and I don't think you can say nobody retired from concussion as if it never happened... these players should have retired but didn't.

Now we know that they should have retired, I suspect we will see it start to be a thing.

I'm not saying nobody retired from concussion, just that I can't think of a single instance. My point being that it would be incredibly rare and unlucky for both Jatta and Notts if he can't play again as a result of his recent injury.

[Kent Magpie]

I'm not saying nobody retired from concussion, just that I can't think of a single instance. My point being that it would be incredibly rare and unlucky for both Jatta and Notts if he can't play again as a result of his recent injury.

I get that... I'm just saying that it is more because it was an unappreciated injury and so there simply hasn't been enough time since it was recognised for there to be many / any retirements due to it. I don't think it will be as rare in the future as it is now, but it would be unlucky either way if Jatta had to retire from it (and worrying - imagine living the rest of your life knowing that you have a much higher risk of various neurological diseases and there is nothing you can do except wait and see).

[Lullapie]

I'm not saying we should take it lightly. Just saying it must be pretty rare given that I can't think of a single instance of a player retiring early due to concussion.

It will happen in time though SP. Many sports are taking head knocks much more seriously now. They all have their own idiosyncrasies where a head knock can happen. They're pretty obvious in American Football, Rugby, Boxing etc., but football also encourages trauma to the head.

When I did my FA Coaching Certificate in 2001, the person leading the course was the Head Coach ('scuse the pun) for the Forest Junior Team. He said that they had stopped doing heading training with the juniors. He said it actually wasn't a bad thing as the club was heavily promoting playing the game on the ground. By doing this, it included all players, whatever their size. He did have a chuckle though as he said one of his squad was Tom Huddlestone, who was about 6ft tall at the age of 12 and scared the life out of the opposition.

I've adopted this with my coaching in NZ and got 'offside' with many traditional football coaches here. You do need to be able to head a ball to play football, but you don't need to practice it all of the time.

In terms of retiring from football, the only player I know was the Australian Joey Didulica who had loads of concussions from playing football. I think he played in Austria for a while.