AndSeel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 7:33 am
Hamstring injuries happen lads. Hes not fucking dead. Be back for pre season. He didnt get it just sprinting, he went flying off the pitch on his knees.
Nah, he'd already been down with some kind of discomfort just before it. He didn't get the injury when he got pushed off the ball, he was holding his right hamstring and in tears, probably because he knew it was the same injury that kept him out for so long already, he even got up but then sat back down and had to get stretchered off, he's not just got a couple of skinned knees.
I appreciate that some people always want to come across as the calm voice of reason and you never know, you might be right and it's just a minor niggle but the lad's missed 46 games in the last two seasons and has had other injuries prior to that so I think people are right to be concerned about his long term ability to avoid further injuries.
Gash wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 10:22 am
Nah, he'd already been down with some kind of discomfort just before it. He didn't get the injury when he got pushed off the ball, he was holding his right hamstring and in tears, probably because he knew it was the same injury that kept him out for so long already, he even got up but then sat back down and had to get stretchered off, he's not just got a couple of skinned knees.
I appreciate that some people always want to come across as the calm voice of reason and you never know, you might be right and it's just a minor niggle but the lad's missed 46 games in the last two seasons and has had other injuries prior to that so I think people are right to be concerned about his long term ability to avoid further injuries.
Im not saying i dont think hes injured mate. I was saying that all this doom and gloom he cant stay fit is a bit much. He clearly went flying and thats what caused it, not just a regular sprint.
A lot of tall younger players suffer with muscle injuries in their early 20s. He will be fine. He will play a lot next season.
No point in ignoring it and pretending he’s going to be fine when he’s just literally been stretchered off in tears right after already having six months out due to injury.
AndSeel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 12:43 pm
Im not saying i dont think hes injured mate. I was saying that all this doom and gloom he cant stay fit is a bit much. He clearly went flying and thats what caused it, not just a regular sprint.
A lot of tall younger players suffer with muscle injuries in their early 20s. He will be fine. He will play a lot next season.
I don't how you can think it was the fall that caused it and you don't need to be at a full sprint to pull a hamstring especially if it was already bothering him which something clearly was just before it. He's missed over 70 games since we signed him and he's just had a long lay off with the same hamstring he was clutching last night. I'll be pleasantly surprised if this is just a knock sustained while being knocked off the ball, 46 games missed in two seasons is a bit more than just some growing pains and niggles, especially after the club nursed him back from this one and were cautious bringing him back in.
superpull wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 9:12 am
Isn't this the third season on the trot he has got injured at the tail end (maybe one was in pre-season)?
I am sure this was the second time he missed the start of a season (and potentially will be the third next year?
If it's not 3 on the trot, it's certainly 3 out of 4
One of the season starts missed was due to being on England duty in the summer wasn't it?
Gash wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 12:54 pm
I don't how you can think it was the fall that caused it and you don't need to be at a full sprint to pull a hamstring especially if it was already bothering him which something clearly was just before it. He's missed over 70 games since we signed him and he's just had a long lay off with the same hamstring he was clutching last night. I'll be pleasantly surprised if this is just a knock sustained while being knocked off the ball, 46 games missed in two seasons is a bit more than just some growing pains and niggles, especially after the club nursed him back from this one and were cautious bringing him back in.
I think the issue a few mins before was taking a shot in the stomach / bollocks, certainly that's what it looked like at the time.
You'd really like to think that between him and the staff he'd have been taken off immediately if it was in any way an issue with that hamstring.
Risky wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 1:30 pm
I think the issue a few mins before was taking a shot in the stomach / bollocks, certainly that's what it looked like at the time.
You'd really like to think that between him and the staff he'd have been taken off immediately if it was in any way an issue with that hamstring.
Ah, could have been. Yeah, I said yesterday you'd hope if it was anything hamstring related he'd have gone off rather than risk it.
I think by his reaction and how upset he was and the way he was clutching it, it's pretty clear that unless he's been very lucky this is going to be another fairly long injury lay off for him.
The Doc wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 7:23 pm
Is the same hamstring or the other one?
Someone on here said it was where there was a massive long scar on his thigh next to where he was holding the hamstring area... So I think it's the same one unfortunately.
On a personal level, I feel so sorry for him. He is still so young and to have another big setback is a hammer blow for him.
This one will test him much more than his first setback in terms of the mental side of it. It will create doubt and he will feel like the world is against him, but he has to believe that he will fully recover and be back.
Thinking about the club though, it is extremely concerning that this has happened again and whilst we await the outcome of his scans, we have to be seriously considering going into the market for a first choice CB in the summer or promote JOB and buy a RB (Yeah right).
Gary1878 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 8:17 pm
On a personal level, I feel so sorry for him. He is still so young and to have another big setback is a hammer blow for him.
This one will test him much more than his first setback in terms of the mental side of it. It will create doubt and he will feel like the world is against him, but he has to believe that he will fully recover and be back.
Thinking about the club though, it is extremely concerning that this has happened again and whilst we await the outcome of his scans, we have to be seriously considering going into the market for a first choice CB in the summer or promote JOB and buy a RB (Yeah right).
We absolutely must buy an RB regardless of anything else.
JOB is a great replacement for Branthwaite, it will hopefully give him the opportunity now to cement his place as a starting CB come the new season.
Not that I want Branthwaite to not be fit by then, but if JOB starts the season we'll it takes pressure off playing Branthwaite when he's first back, reducing his chances of repeat injury.
In an ideal world start of the season after next JOB and Branthwaite are our starting pairing, but I do really worry about this injury and the long term ramifications for his career.
If he is going to always be in and out like this we really should be scouring the market for another young, mobile, physical, ball playing left-sided cb.
sam of the south wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2026 10:04 am
If he is going to always be in and out like this we really should be scouring the market for another young, mobile, physical, ball playing left-sided cb.
Was Branthwaite a Brands signing?
Yeah, took him on loan to PSV too.
Genuine question though, what does who signed have to do with anything?
