Vela out for 4 months!

Josh Vela faces approximately four months on the sidelines after scans reveal he injured the lateral ligament in his left knee at Crawley.

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Tough for the kid, but he may as well sit on his arse at home than at the game.

aww shit...

poor lad, he will be even farther away from the pitch now, at least when not injured he would have had a 'managers eye view' of the pitch from the dugout...

on a positive note, at least we aint got as many injures as we had back in the big Sam days, all them bloody physios and sports scientists conditioning the players up... totally and utterly pointless...

terrible bad luck...

He will be under a different manager by the time he gets back from the injury.

aaron_bwfc wrote:He will be under a different manager by the time he gets back from the injury.

With, hopefully, a more decent training crew and a definitely far superior physio and sports sciences set up then at present.

The lad's injured and all the pessimistic knobheads (Whittam and Rebel) can go on about is how he hadn't played yet this season in a whole 3 league games. Incredible.

Really sad for the lad.

considering he's one of the few to come out of the academy thats cracked the first team, i've got high hopes.

get well soon.

largehat wrote:The lad's injured and all the pessimistic knobheads (Whittam and Rebel) can go on about is how he hadn't played yet this season in a whole 3 league games. Incredible.

So you think Coyle would have picked Vela in the next four months?

largehat wrote:The lad's injured and all the pessimistic knobheads (Whittam and Rebel) can go on about is how he hadn't played yet this season in a whole 3 league games. Incredible.

ive not gone on about his lack of games - the lack of games thing is about the fact we needed a holding midfielder and he was the only one...

the moan this time is, yet again... that 'bad luck' is following us from last season...

funny how teams with a more 'scientific' set up suffer less injuries...

Natasha Whittam wrote:

So you think Coyle would have picked Vela in the next four months?

Probably, yep. He has already made the bench in one of the three games and he started the league cup game. This is someone on the fringe of the first team.

Reebok_Rebel wrote:

ive not gone on about his lack of games - the lack of games thing is about the fact we needed a holding midfielder and he was the only one...

the moan this time is, yet again... that 'bad luck' is following us from last season...

funny how teams with a more 'scientific' set up suffer less injuries...

1. He isn't a holding midfielder.

2. Every time one of our players gets an injury of any severity, it is the club's fault, Rebel.

largehat wrote:

Reebok_Rebel wrote:

ive not gone on about his lack of games - the lack of games thing is about the fact we needed a holding midfielder and he was the only one...

the moan this time is, yet again... that 'bad luck' is following us from last season...

funny how teams with a more 'scientific' set up suffer less injuries...

1. He isn't a holding midfielder.

2. Every time one of our players gets an injury of any severity, it is the club's fault, Rebel.

ok... the club can do no wrong.
Owen coyle is the greatest manager Bolton have ever had.
Our injuries are just bad luck and nothing to do with the way the players are coached and conditioned for games.

that better?

No Rebel, now you're being childish instead. Just accept that sometimes, footballers get injured playing football.

largehat wrote:No Rebel, now you're being childish instead. Just accept that sometimes, footballers get injured playing football.

do you not think that under big sams scientific approach, along with other clubs who dont use the 'guide to football coaching and conditioning 1926 edition' get less injuries?

Reebok_Rebel wrote:
do you not think that under big sams scientific approach, along with other clubs who dont use the 'guide to football coaching and conditioning 1926 edition' get less injuries?

I have no medical training, I really don't know. Even if there is something awry about the methods used at Bolton Wanderers, you can't blame every injury on that. Footballers playing for other teams get injured too you know.

I'm not sure what training method would stop you having so called "trauma" injuries like snapped ligaments, broken legs and cardiac arrests.

If it was everyone pulling their hamstring every other week i'd be agreeing with the questions.

Newcastle had a problem a few years back and i seem to remember them saying their training pitch was the cause.... but it was all hamstrings.

Get well soon Josh!