West Ham 5/4 Build-Up & Match Thread

[AndyWolves]

I'm hoping it's a rumour designed to catch a mole in the club

 

[Tony Towner]

Confirmed by Spiers. ACL, same knee. Gutted for him and us

 

[Tredman]

Tim 2 reporting it now. Fuck.

 

[YoungWolf]

Potentially career ending then? Awful for him.

 

[Jinky]

Absolutely gutted for Jonny and obviously for us, as a club/team. Hugely weakens us and you only start to appreciate how good he is when the team is without him for so long.

We’ll definitely need another senior LWB/LB in the next window.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

I know there are far worse things happening in the world but this is awful news. Get well soon Jonny, you’ll be missed.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Fuck. Unbelievable. Huge blow. Gutted for him

 

[AndyWolves]

Gutted, I hope he comes back from this. I don't expect to see him until the end of next season if he does come back.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Bollocks. This season is the gift that keeps on giving...

 

[sycophantia]

Shit, my favourite player, really feel for him, hoping he can get over it eventually

 

[Kenny]

Fuck! Horrible news. Not a lot to add other than another FUCK!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

RAN really needs to deliver now.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I can't remember this happening to a Wolves player twice since the 90s.

 

[Johnny75]

Potentially career ending then? Awful for him.

I don't think so. Just another replacement.

 

[YoungWolf]

RAN really needs to deliver now.

Yeah, this could give him a run of games now to prove his worth (if he is fit himself)

 

[prawnking]

Bollocks. This season is the gift that keeps on giving...

Put me firmly in Kenny's 'Fuck this Season' camp now

 

[PuntsWolf]

Potentially career ending then? Awful for him.

Obviously more severe a problem than the original but it shouldn’t be career ending.

The issue is what they use to graft the new ligament with. They’d have used his hamstring tendon for the original, but they wouldn’t be able to use more hamstring as it will already be about 80% weaker (from memory, might be wrong on that). They used to use patella tendon but this was always littered with problems so they stopped doing it, so this is an option, but what might be a better option is using the hamstring tendon from the other leg.

I’m not sure if there’s ability to use “artificial” graft as an alternative. But I assume not (or certainly not as successful) as they’d do this in the first instance

 

[AndyWolves]

Moutinho and Boly missing too

FML

 

[Tredman]

Moutinho and Boly out too. Fuck it all.

 

[YoungWolf]

FUCKKK