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Britt Assombalonga

A write up on this type of injury if anyone fancies some light reading on a Friday night :D Sounds like there's only a very small chance of re-rupture, which is good

http://dynastyleaguefootball.com/2013/06/01/the-dynasty-doctor-6/

The most interesting article on this subject reviewed NFL players with ruptured patellar tendons from 1994 to 20041. A total of 24 NFL players sustained a ruptured patellar tendon in that interval of time. Of those players, 19 of 24 returned to play (79%). Those who returned had been taken earlier in the NFL Draft, and that is not surprising given players drafted in later rounds are not likely to get as many opportunities to return from injury. Those players who did return played an average number of 45 games (range 1 to 145 games), and the total number of games played pre and post-injury exceeded the career average for NFL players (76 games vs 57 games), suggesting these players had a longer NFL career despite ruptured patellar tendons. All but two players missed the remainder of the season, but all were able to return the following year. The two players who returned the same season either had a partial rupture or sustained the injury in the off-season and had more time to recover. Only one player had a re-rupture of his patellar tendon (4%), and he was able to play another 60 games after his second surgery.
 
This sounds promising:

A study from Mayo Clinic described six athletes with ruptured patellar tendons over a ten year period of time. All patients returned to their previous level of sports activity an average of 18 months after the injury, although cutting and pivoting started at 6 months. All patients did not have instability or limits in activity levels after surgery, and all had full range of motion and strength when compared to the uninjured knee. Five out of six patients reported excellent functional and clinical outcomes. The authors in this study concluded that, after surgery and rehabilitation, athletes with ruptured patellar tendons can have excellent, long-lasting functional outcomes.
 
"Give me Hamm on five & hold the Mayo"
/Airplane!joke
 
Mick said:
Just had a look on DCFC Fans for their view. Got to give credit for the decent comments.

Get well soon Dave.
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It's times like this that I'm pleased that so many of our lot were sympathetic/positive when George Thorn suffered his serious injury.
 
tropix said:
This sounds promising:

A study from Mayo Clinic described six athletes with ruptured patellar tendons over a ten year period of time. All patients returned to their previous level of sports activity an average of 18 months after the injury, although cutting and pivoting started at 6 months. All patients did not have instability or limits in activity levels after surgery, and all had full range of motion and strength when compared to the uninjured knee. Five out of six patients reported excellent functional and clinical outcomes. The authors in this study concluded that, after surgery and rehabilitation, athletes with ruptured patellar tendons can have excellent, long-lasting functional outcomes.
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Didn't Steve Stone do his Patella many years ago???
 
adam09 said:
In what way was it perfect? Before he even came on we had dropped back to our own penalty area and were letting Wigan have the ball in the middle of the pitch and weren't pressing them so hard. We weren't pushing forward in numbers and were sending long balls forward to Dex and Fryatt.
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Game won, let them have the ball....get it back and hes one of your outlet balls to run with it, take the pressure off and basically do what he did last year..... Use that as well as your punt to Dex and fryatt. For whatever reason this season hes been a ghost of his former self when given the chance.
 
tropix said:
A write up on this type of injury if anyone fancies some light reading on a Friday night :D Sounds like there's only a very small chance of re-rupture, which is good

http://dynastyleaguefootball.com/2013/06/01/the-dynasty-doctor-6/

The most interesting article on this subject reviewed NFL players with ruptured patellar tendons from 1994 to 20041. A total of 24 NFL players sustained a ruptured patellar tendon in that interval of time. Of those players, 19 of 24 returned to play (79%). Those who returned had been taken earlier in the NFL Draft, and that is not surprising given players drafted in later rounds are not likely to get as many opportunities to return from injury. Those players who did return played an average number of 45 games (range 1 to 145 games), and the total number of games played pre and post-injury exceeded the career average for NFL players (76 games vs 57 games), suggesting these players had a longer NFL career despite ruptured patellar tendons. All but two players missed the remainder of the season, but all were able to return the following year. The two players who returned the same season either had a partial rupture or sustained the injury in the off-season and had more time to recover. Only one player had a re-rupture of his patellar tendon (4%), and he was able to play another 60 games after his second surgery.
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Good stats
 
Magamar said:
Didn't Steve Stone do his Patella many years ago???
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Yes he did against the bin dippers, I think it was the season we got relegated from the prem under clark/pearce/bassett. He was out for around a year too I think. He certainly came back when we were in division 1 (early in the season, having missed most of the preceding one) then played well once we'd got up and left for Villa for 5.5m just before we went down.
 
Alpha Fail said:
Assombalonga is 21, maybe just turned 22. A full year younger than Pateron, who everyone looks at as an inexperienced learner player. He's played almost ever minute of almost every match this season. Frequently in a solo role up front, therefore working harder than he would in a 2-man partnership.

If you want to ask 'why did it have to be Britt', without making any claims to medical knowledge I'd say that's probably a question to ask when looking at past team selection sheets, particularly when he wasn't scoring, as much as one might ask it now.

He's been played until he broke. We gambled five million quid on a youngster, a striker, a lower league player... then we gambled on him carrying the team and on his body being able to take it.
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That's true only in the sense that he'd been soldiering on alone upfront with poor service and no protection from refs against frequent fouls...until suddenly DF turned things round and we were 3 up, with Britt revelling in a new freedom.

He turned away from two players, accelerated further away, feinted to shoot, let fly - and suffered a freak injury as he slipped in the act of shooting.

Absolutely nothing to do with anything you claim.
 
Bill Foster said:
Game won, let them have the ball....get it back and hes one of your outlet balls to run with it, take the pressure off and basically do what he did last year..... Use that as well as your punt to Dex and fryatt. For whatever reason this season hes been a ghost of his former self when given the chance.
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Yes except we didn't get the ball, Wigan ended up having more possession than us over the 90 minutes and that was mostly from when Britt went off onwards. None of our attackers got the ball in a decent position after Britt went off, wasn't just Pato.

Last year he had Reid, on form Lansbury, Cox etc feeding the ball to him, he was getting it at the top of the pitch where he only had to make a short run and have a shot. When has he had anything like that chance this season?! It's quite clear he has come on very late in games with the team struggling and barely got the ball. If he's done nothing after 20+ starts like other out of form players who haven't earned their starting place either then that's profound criticism. After 2 league starts, no. Other players get afforded the excuse of needing a run of games so it should apply to all players.
 
Real, real shitty news. The only positive spin is we don't have to sell him this summer, which is what would have happened had he stayed healthy. Britt is good enough for the Prem.
 
adam09 said:
Yes except we didn't get the ball, Wigan ended up having more possession than us over the 90 minutes and that was mostly from when Britt went off onwards. None of our attackers got the ball in a decent position after Britt went off, wasn't just Pato.

Last year he had Reid, on form Lansbury, Cox etc feeding the ball to him, he was getting it at the top of the pitch where he only had to make a short run and have a shot. When has he had anything like that chance this season?! It's quite clear he has come on very late in games with the team struggling and barely got the ball. If he's done nothing after 20+ starts like other out of form players who haven't earned their starting place either then that's profound criticism. After 2 league starts, no. Other players get afforded the excuse of needing a run of games so it should apply to all players.
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His situation is different now though clean slate and all that. For whatever reason he has only been given them starts this season youve pointed out. So we can say hes been used as a sub quite a bit. When he has been given 10 15 20 mins he needs to seize the opportunity and get himself in the managers thoughts, up until the last week or so we needed fighters, players who wanted to battle and when hes come on hes ploded through his cameos. I rate the guy i really do but if hes gonna come on and do what hes doing he aint gonna be replacing antonio or burke unless there's injury anytime soon.
 
Why would we have had to sell him? How does insurance work with footballers? Is it just collectable if a player has to hang up his boots? If not, then that will save us a bit until he gets playing again. And selling him or Antonio or Lansbury would be a massive step backwards.
 
I think someone in hell who hates our club is working their way down a list entitled most to least important player to NFFC to crock for the season.
I think it's because they did such a good job of doing the same last season.
 
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If people want to be superstitious then why not claim that the last decade and a half is karmic redress for the two decades before that? Pissant second-tier provincial club wins bloody everything, on an ongoing basis. Unbelievable good luck. Now, nothing we do 'right' goes well.

Or maybe humans are just inclined towards pattern recognition, even when it's useless to do so.
 
In any other Championship team Matty Fryatt would be a regular starter. He should now get his chance to be the main striker.
 
Ravi said:
In any other Championship team Matty Fryatt would be a regular starter. He should now get his chance to be the main striker.
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Yeah definitely capable striker but will need to play 2 up top I suspect or fryatt up top and pwto or Reid just behind in a free role when his back. 352 or a 442 don't think fryatt got the assabalonga pace or strength to pull of the one up top on his own.
 
Think we'll still do well under Dougie without Britt although our side has definitely been weakened now. You can't really say last 20 mins of game v wigan will reflect anything for future games as most the players and crowd were in shock at the injury, you just knew it was a bad'en and knocked the wind out of the whole game. It was suddenly eerily quiet (apart from applauding him off the pitch) and a stark contrast from being a cheerful celebration of seeing our side actually play football for the first time this season!
 
It's a gutting shame. Especially for Fawaz - I swear, no other clubs get hit with the same injury list. Still, we have plenty of options. Love to see is try Walker rather than spend our last loan spot with a journey man hasbeen
 
redanddeadly said:
Think we'll still do well under Dougie without Britt although our side has definitely been weakened now. You can't really say last 20 mins of game v wigan will reflect anything for future games as most the players and crowd were in shock at the injury, you just knew it was a bad'en and knocked the wind out of the whole game. It was suddenly eerily quiet (apart from applauding him off the pitch) and a stark contrast from being a cheerful celebration of seeing our side actually play football for the first time this season!
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The glass half fulls will say that the last 20 mins was down just because of Britt's injury. I think they're spot on. Possession stats are less telling than corners, shots, shots on goal etc. At Brighton, some stats show we had only 35% possession; but we scored three lucky goals didn't we? We need to man up a bit and come out fighting. We have the players.
 
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