A harsh lesson learned. If SB had taken Fryatt off in the Rotherham cup game the moment that Fryatt signalled that all was not well all this would not have happened. But whats done is done. Good news if it comes to pass.
He could very well be useful towards the end of the season, even if its only coming off the bench for 20-15 mins.
Thing is we didn't - a similar thing happened with Dudge this season. Hopefully we've learnt now, and Super Matt comes back and bags a few this season.
There must be some sort of flaw to doing that... we'd surely have evolved that way in the first place if not?
There isn't though. I've had no problem with the leg I had operated on and all I can say is that if I had to jump from a fair height and land on one leg, I would trust that one more than the other.
I guess it's the recovery time that's the problem. He had the op in what? September? And he's still out, whereas with the injections they were hoping for 6 weeks out at a time.
This is ridiculous. We've got quality strikers coming out of our ears, keeping them all happy is going to be a nightmare for Bruce and it will surely start to damage team morale before long. When are we going to dip into the emergency loan window and get one off the books?!
If he hadn't kept his pre-match injury to himself and played into extra time in a meaningless cup game then who knows what would've been?
But how many times did we try to cure the injury with injections before he was eventually sent for an operation? 2 or 3? That was more my problem with it really.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, no doubt if we'd known that surgery was the only answer, we'd have done it much earlier. But surgery is a last resort, when it results in a player missing an entire season, then every other potential option will be examined first. It will also have been Fryatt's decision, in partnership with the club, guided by the medical advice he was being given.
I agree. If the injections had worked and he;d managed to get through till summer when he had his op we'd have all been shouting "good job he didnt have the op". You have to explore the options and the operation was guaranteed to keep him out for a huge amount of time whereas the injections might have worked to some extent.
