Hmmm, not sure really. He gets medical advice which will influence him sure, but it's still his decision ultimately and anybody could see that giving a player who's barely kicked a ball in 3 years 3 starts in a week is a huge risk. He definitely shouldn't take Stewart's word for it imo, should be stronger than that.
Yeah you may be right. Moot now anyway. Hopefully more a three week strain than a three month tear. Please.
If the player looked fit and had trained well, had a thumbs up from the medical team that all was ok and had a player response of "I'm fit to play" you can't blame WS for wanting his best attacking options on the pitch. Hopefully it's not too bad but anything that needs a scan is going to be some short time to manage even if there is not damage. So it's lucky there's a break but I reckon we won't seem him until November now as the medical team will be careful again.
Recruitment teams fault (again) imo. Stewart should only have ever been a bonus striker this season. We needed to buy a starter striker who fits the way we want to play. If we had, we wouldn’t have felt the need to overplay Stewart. Mental to start him 3 times in a week imo. He’s barely started 3 games in 3 years before that. Even consecutive weekend starts is a big step up for him and the max he should do for a good while to build up his body. But yeah, given the recruitment have once again ****ed up the striker recruitment. It’s ultimately on Still to make the call, and he ultimately made the wrong call.
I get taking it carefully with Stewart but right now he is the player our team ticks around and we have two weeks off after the game. You either trust that a year of physio and barely playing have worked or you don’t. Also, this happened after 20 minutes. Could just as easily have subbed him on after an hour and had the same result.
This is such a sensible post. I think SR will do something about the forwards in January. Not sure we will retain Archer and maybe we will recall someone from loam. I think Downs will be farmed out to get more experience although cannot see him improving to the level we require.
And this was only the first triple-league header of the season. He couldn't even get through that. Across the entire season, there are a heck of a lot of triple headers in this league. It's not unlucky that it's backfired. (Yes we've had some weeks where there was a league cup game in the middle, but that's different.)
It's unfortunate for ross to pick up an injury when he was just starting to look good. But just imagine the **** will still would have got on here if he dropped Stewart
