Ricardo Injured

Ricardo, Sorry another one that needs binning!! 90 fkn games in 4 years,another £ 22 million down the pan !!!!!!
 
Paddysfoxes said:
Dave Rennie and his team were binned off by Rodgers and replaced with a load of Jock Doctors
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There is talk (mind you, it may be just that, and there may be not much behind it!) on FT that Rennie was let go over him and Rodgers disagreeing over the latter's training methods.

Given our injury record in the more recent past, it doesn't sound too implausible - because we now know what Rodgers was like (in fact, I expect more to gradually come out now that he's gone!) but I'd still like a bit more bone to such rumours.
 
As the Grand National is due to start at 5:15 I'm wondering how many false starts it would take for us to concede before the race had ended.
 
He started off at the club playing brilliantly, since his first long term injury he has been a shadow of his former self, and I am afraid it is now time for him to be included in Fossils ansd Foxes. (with a lot more to follow)
 
JohnMitten said:
He started off at the club playing brilliantly, since his first long term injury he has been a shadow of his former self, and I am afraid it is now time for him to be included in Fossils ansd Foxes. (with a lot more to follow)
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A narrow defeat without any key injuries is the best we ce hope for tomorrow
Lose Tielemans or Maddison for the Wolves and Leeds games would indeed be the final nail
 
Maybe it's too tempting at the moment to blame Rodgers for this also but we know that

a) our injury record under Rodgers was poor,
b) Ricardo suffered his first anterior cruciate ligament in September 2019 (about six months after Rodgers had joined LCFC),
c) Rennie left in September 2020, strongly rumoured as a result of Rodgers' workings,

and Ricardo has never been the same again, despite having a fantastic first year in 18/19.
 
swabianfox said:
Maybe it's too tempting at the moment to blame Rodgers for this also but we know that

a) our injury record under Rodgers was poor,
b) Ricardo suffered his first anterior cruciate ligament in September 2019 (about six months after Rodgers had joined LCFC),
c) Rennie left in September 2020, strongly rumoured as a result of Rodgers' workings,

and Ricardo has never been the same again, despite having a fantastic first year in 18/19.
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I thought he did his knee against Villa in the final game before lockdown in March 2020??
 
TopFox said:
I thought he did his knee against Villa in the final game before lockdown in March 2020??
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You are probably right, sorry!
I didn't remember the incident exactly and misread his wikipedia entry which was referring to something in September 2019 before this:

and the following 4 March [2020] he netted the only goal against Birmingham City in the fifth round of the FA Cup to put the Foxes into the last eight for the second time in eight years.[20] Days later, he was ruled out for the rest of the season with an anterior cruciate ligament injury.[21]
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So it happened about one year after Rodgers had joined, and about six months before Rennie left. If I remember things correctly, at the time Ricardo wasn't the only one suffering a bad injury.

Edit: spelling
 
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swabianfox said:
You are probably right, sorry!
I didn't remember the incident exactly and misread his wikipedia entry which was referring to something in September 2019 before this:



So it happened about one year after Rodgers had joined, and about six months before Rennie left. If I remember things correctly, at the time Ricardo wasn't the only one suffering a bad injury at the time.
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There's an important difference between impact injuries sustained during games (eg Ricardo tacking Grealish and coming off second-best), and the poisonous combination of training ground injuries and poorly-judged returns from injuries.
It's the latter with which people have suspicions about BFR's regime. Perhaps there's a reason why his fitness coach was booted out with him, with Rennie's Doc replacement also leaving last summer.
 
.... and poorly-judged returns from injuries ....

That’s the glaringly obvious thing for me. It’s happened too often - especially that time when one or more of them were given their return game on a frozen pitch! Was it Cags and Justin?

Too many have come back too soon and have either broken down with the same problem or suffered compensatory injuries with the latter meaning they’ve then got two injuries to work on and protect.

With Ricardo it’s escalated, and his come back wasn’t helped by also suffering that leg fracture at Liverpool after that horrendous challenge by one of their young thugs who wasn’t even booked.
 
Can’t imagine it was a frozen pitch, not in a premier league game anyway.
However bringing a player back from long term injury on a very cold day wouldn’t be the brightest of Brendan’s very limited ideas. I mean constant sharp movement wasn’t exactly in his coaching was it.
 
I wish somebody prepared a comprehensive timeline on all the events regarding injuries, i.e. who broke down, when and why; which personnel was changed and when and so on.

More and more it appears that Rodgers had a very negative impact on various aspects of the club. I wouldn't be too surprised if he was also at least partially responsible for crocking some of our players for good.

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