Nasty's Ankle

[blues2win]

I don't see how there can be any doubt surgery for a fracture. Either you need it or you don't and the decision is taken quickly. That normally happens with a compound fracture and there's no suggestion of that. I wonder whether Pellegrini was being diplomatic about blaming a kick rather than the pitch. He would be out for longer than 6 weeks if he's operated on for a fracture though. 6 weeks in plaster plus rehab plus getting match fit...

[Slim]

Fracture to a joint? Okie dokie.

[blues2win]

I don't think he has got a fracture. I think it's damaged ligaments and they're weighing up whether the ligaments are weakened enough to need surgery. Hopefully not.

[Invisible Man Fan]

I got a huge boot to my ankle last september (against the City store ironically) and went to the hospital, no broken bones, but had quite bad soft tissue damage.....anyway, 3 months before i could walk on it without being in pain.

I'd imagine that if I was a professional footballer, they would have put me under the knife, but as I'm not, I just had to suffer and sit out a lot of my matches

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

If he has to have his leg amputated will he be back before or after Christmas?

[Ted Hughes]

When his ankle gets better, will we be allowed to mention that he got skinned alive by Connor Wickham ?

I suppose I'll be the only person who feels just as worried about that, as about his recovery.

[carl_feedthegoat]

When his ankle gets better, will we be allowed to mention that he got skinned alive by Connor Wickham ?

I suppose I'll be the only person who feels just as worried about that, as about his recovery.

Can we mention how Lescott got skinned out of the penalty area yesterday?

Say whatever you want to say Ted but Nasty is fucking miles better than Lescott overall , lets see how much playing time he gets when Nasty is back..end of fucking story.

[Foreverinbluedreams]

When his ankle gets better, will we be allowed to mention that he got skinned alive by Connor Wickham ?

I suppose I'll be the only person who feels just as worried about that, as about his recovery.

Can we mention how Lescott got skinned out of the penalty area yesterday?

Say whatever you want to say Ted but Nasty is fucking miles better than Lescott overall , lets see how much playing time he gets when Nasty is back..end of fucking story.

When did Lescott get skinned?

And Ted, was that when Wickham had slid into Nasty which caused the injury?

[carl_feedthegoat]

When his ankle gets better, will we be allowed to mention that he got skinned alive by Connor Wickham ?

I suppose I'll be the only person who feels just as worried about that, as about his recovery.

Can we mention how Lescott got skinned out of the penalty area yesterday?

Say whatever you want to say Ted but Nasty is fucking miles better than Lescott overall , lets see how much playing time he gets when Nasty is back..end of fucking story.

When did Lescott get skinned?

And Ted, was that when Wickham had slid into Nasty which caused the injury?

He got skinned on the right hand side and was overtaken into the penalty area, shouldered off the ball, fuck knows how they didnt score from it...if you were watching the match then you would have seen it clear as day.

And yes to your second point.

[Ted Hughes]

When his ankle gets better, will we be allowed to mention that he got skinned alive by Connor Wickham ?

I suppose I'll be the only person who feels just as worried about that, as about his recovery.

Can we mention how Lescott got skinned out of the penalty area yesterday?

Say whatever you want to say Ted but Nasty is fucking miles better than Lescott overall , lets see how much playing time he gets when Nasty is back..end of fucking story.

When did Lescott get skinned?

And Ted, was that when Wickham had slid into Nasty which caused the injury?

He got skinned on the right hand side and was overtaken into the penalty area, shouldered off the ball, fuck knows how they didnt score from it...if you were watching the match then you would have seen it clear as day.

And yes to your second point.

Lescott will play plenty unless we sign Pepe.

Am I allowed to point out every occasion Nastasic gets outrun or loses his marker this season ? I mentioned the first four or five in a couple of games last season & got called obsessed, but I'm just trying to play fair. For every mistake Lescott makes Nasty matches it.

I actually thought Nasty was fantastic v Sunderland, but he made a right cunt of himself v Wickham because his body position was wrong.

He is prone to that kind of mistake & doesn't have the pace to fix it. None of our cbs do but Lescott & Kompany are bigger stronger & more experienced.

[Dameerto]

Am I allowed to point out every occasion Nastasic gets outrun or loses his marker this season ? I mentioned the first four or five in a couple of games last season & got called obsessed, but I'm just trying to play fair.

Only if you point out all the moments of brilliance to balance it up, otherwise whats the point? You could do exactly the same for anyone starting any match.

[Ted Hughes]

Am I allowed to point out every occasion Nastasic gets outrun or loses his marker this season ? I mentioned the first four or five in a couple of games last season & got called obsessed, but I'm just trying to play fair.

Only if you point out all the moments of brilliance to balance it up, otherwise whats the point? You could do exactly the same for anyone starting any match.

The point is that there are a squad of people who jump on Lescott for every misake or often even when he doesn't actually make any mistakes he gets jumped on for looking as if he was about to.

If he does a partcular thing wrong, which some see a a droppable offence, then the bloke who replaces him makes the exact same mistake, or worse, but no fucker says anything, it's simply unfair.

If Nastasic does more defending, & makes less mistakes than Lescott, I have absolutely no problem with him playing in the team every week.

So far, that isn't the case, it's purely that he is allowed to fuck up & Lescott isn't.

[Michael Brookes]

I don't think either lescott or nasti are particularly brilliant. There's not a lot between them right now on ability,whilst lescott has experience and nasti has potential to improve beyond lescotts level simply due to his age.

[carl_feedthegoat]

I don't think either lescott or nasti are particularly brilliant. There's not a lot between them right now on ability,whilst lescott has experience and nasti has potential to improve beyond lescotts level simply due to his age.

Nasty is a better passer of the ball and quicker from defence to attack ...Lescott is a fuckign crab, and that cannot be up for dispute.
The sooner he is back the sooner he will be a starter ahead of Lescott.

[aaron bond]

I don't think either lescott or nasti are particularly brilliant. There's not a lot between them right now on ability,whilst lescott has experience and nasti has potential to improve beyond lescotts level simply due to his age.

Nasty is a better passer of the ball and quicker from defence to attack ...Lescott is a fuckign crab, and that cannot be up for dispute.
The sooner he is back the sooner he will be a starter ahead of Lescott.

I agree with you regarding Nastasic's composure on the ball - he shows a remarkable calmness on the ball for someone his age playing in the Prem.

My concern with him is he is often found wanting in one-on-one situations, and he's not as dominant in the air. Whether he'll ever be dominant in the air I don't know, as that's usually a natual attribute, but if he can improve his marking and ability to deal with one-on-one situations, then we could have a very good player on our hands. He has time to work on that.

I never had any issue with the Kompany-Lescott partnership though, and still believe that those 2 make our strongest CB pairing. Lescott didn't have a good game against Milan, but playing next to Garcia and Kolarov didn't help, and he's always performed well with Kompany.

[Wooders]

The thing is nasti has the potential to be world class, but we won't get him there if he isn't playing & learning week in week out

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Am I allowed to point out every occasion Nastasic gets outrun or loses his marker this season ? I mentioned the first four or five in a couple of games last season & got called obsessed, but I'm just trying to play fair.

Only if you point out all the moments of brilliance to balance it up, otherwise whats the point? You could do exactly the same for anyone starting any match.

The point is that there are a squad of people who jump on Lescott for every misake or often even when he doesn't actually make any mistakes he gets jumped on for looking as if he was about to.

If he does a partcular thing wrong, which some see a a droppable offence, then the bloke who replaces him makes the exact same mistake, or worse, but no fucker says anything, it's simply unfair.

If Nastasic does more defending, & makes less mistakes than Lescott, I have absolutely no problem with him playing in the team every week.

So far, that isn't the case, it's purely that he is allowed to fuck up & Lescott isn't.

By highlighting every error Nasty makes you're becoming exactly what you're railing against, surely you can see this?

[Ted Hughes]

Am I allowed to point out every occasion Nastasic gets outrun or loses his marker this season ? I mentioned the first four or five in a couple of games last season & got called obsessed, but I'm just trying to play fair.

Only if you point out all the moments of brilliance to balance it up, otherwise whats the point? You could do exactly the same for anyone starting any match.

The point is that there are a squad of people who jump on Lescott for every misake or often even when he doesn't actually make any mistakes he gets jumped on for looking as if he was about to.


If he does a partcular thing wrong, which some see a a droppable offence, then the bloke who replaces him makes the exact same mistake, or worse, but no fucker says anything, it's simply unfair.

If Nastasic does more defending, & makes less mistakes than Lescott, I have absolutely no problem with him playing in the team every week.

So far, that isn't the case, it's purely that he is allowed to fuck up & Lescott isn't.

By highlighting every error Nasty makes you're becoming exactly what you're railing against, surely you can see this?

I'm not rallying against anybody, I'm talking about keeping it fair.

If people are going to do it with Lescott, saying it is proof he isn't good enoughI'm going to square it up if the identical things happen to his replacement or indeed to Kompany.

There is a kind of misty bollocks thing going on where Lescott is being downgraded as a failure & whatever Nasty does is great & it is far from the truth.

Nastasic didn't look great at the end of last season but folks have swept it under the carpet & as usual, all the talk is of how dodgy Lescott is. Nastasic did look great v Sunderland but blew it badly with a shocking piece of defending. It went unnoticed because he got trodden on after it happened but it was desperately poor & it's a flaw that needs fixing, as he sometimes gets caught square on.

So long as the present trend continues we are only supposed to say anything if Lescott gets beaten but it happens twice as much to Nasty.

If Nasty plays better than JL he can gladly have his job for me. But if JL continues to get slaughtered for every mistake & his replacement makes the same ones but gets praised for it, I'm going to mention it.


Imo though we should sign a cb anyway as Lescott has a dodgy back & Nastasic is prone to going missing at key moments.

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Fair enough Ted, your intentions are admirable.

To me though the way it's coming across is that you are being just as unfair to Nasty as Lescott's detractors are to him.

I agree about signing another CB, I'm beginning to wonder whether allowing Kolo to move on was such a good idea.

[london blue 2]

Stop being Nasti about Lescott, they're both good Kompany