Wilshere out for the season.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

As it stands, no. In a couple of weeks it's supposed to be known.

Cheers Maccy

[Fist of Lehmann]

It doesn't have to be incompetence, for one (if LDG and Letters are right) it could be misunderstanding a footballer's mentality, focusing on the injury they've got rather than the player who has it - I mean we all know that despite the money they can earn for doing nothing, footballers hate not playing.

True enough. And as much as you'd hope that the medical team of a major football club would understand a footballer's mentality, if a patient tells you he's not feeling any pain, you have no way of telling if he's lying.

Hmm, unless...I'm thinking sodium pentathol and a polygraph test.

[LDG]

Maccy's right. The wear and tear ones seem endless. And are probably (to a degree) preventable in some way. Training? The pitch? Any number of things. everyone else seems to avoid it, so what are we doing wrong?

"He has a little ankle"

"He has a little calf"

"He has a little toe"

We have been unlucky with the leg-breaks and the fractures etc. No doubt about it. But is that as a consequence of the way we play?? Dunno....I was always told you'll get hurt more if you pussy out of challenges....true to a certain extent. You can't stop stoke orcs and sunderland trolls from going over the top and snapping legs, but if you don't contest a ball, sometimes you get nailed for it.

[Ollie the Optimist]

from twitter jack was always saying he had been hitting it hard in the gym etc so the argument that he caused it by doing too much could be valid, watching the medical video, that anti gravity machiene could be the problem, perhpas he did lots of running on that with everyone thinking it would be ok and it wasnt.

[Cripps_orig]

Didnt expect him to play this season anyway and this was before the setback so changes f all tbh

[Gubby Allen]

How we laughed when Wellbeck, Jones, Smalling, Henderson, Sturridge were all being dragged off to the Euro U21's last summer.

They'll all be ****ed next season they said, but we'll have a nice fresh Jack.