Wilshere out for the season.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Soz. Do you mean now, or in the summer?

Regarding the here and now....It is frustrating that a highly paid medical team have allowed more damage to occur...but then, who's to say the dmage wasn't already a time-bomb...stress fractures often are.

He needs more milk.

He does!

Ian Rush says

I mean now.

If it already was a 'time-bomb' then wouldn't they know about it? That would surely have come up when he first started running again, or so I would've thought.

[LDG]

I mean now.

If it already was a 'time-bomb' then wouldn't they know about it? That would surely have come up when he first started running again, or so I would've thought.

Dunno tbh. From arse.com, they're saying it like it's a common occurance when recovering from injuries of this type....

Maybe they couldn't prevent it, that it was a risk etc....but that if he didn't get back running and weight-bearing, we might as well just leave him to find another job.

There is something wrong at the club though. The amount of injuries we sustain is beyond a joke, no doubt about it....

[Marc Overmars]

Maccy should apply to be on the medical team at the club.

[Syn]

Maccy should apply to be on the medical team at the club.

non-Lewins need not apply.

Be the best.

Arsenal medical team.

[Fist of Lehmann]

I find it impossible to believe that an organisation such as ours would have incompetent people in our medical team.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I find it impossible to believe that an organisation such as ours would have incompetent people in our medical team.

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.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

So is he out for the season or not

[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.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dunno tbh. From arse.com, they're saying it like it's a common occurance when recovering from injuries of this type....

Maybe they couldn't prevent it, that it was a risk etc....but that if he didn't get back running and weight-bearing, we might as well just leave him to find another job.

There is something wrong at the club though. The amount of injuries we sustain is beyond a joke, no doubt about it....

I'd have thought it being an ankle injury would be enough to be as cautious as possible. There's only one way you can 'stress' it and that's by doing too much. It could be that he took it upon himself to do as much training as possible, footballers have a tendency to be dim.

I think there probably is something inherently wrong with how we do things but it's also compounded with the league we play in. We haven't been able to play a first XI since 2004, it's just stupid.