Injury Update

[Joe Schmo]

I thought he looked very up beat last night, fingers crossed for him & us there good news in the next couple if weeks.

[Joe Schmo]

Paddy Mac played 52min for the Ravens against the pirates. They got stuffed if you're interested 34 - 17. In other news, Mccomish got sin binned!

*edit* apologies, didn't realise you all had a British & Irish cup thread on the go, so most of this post is old news, sorry!

[Bart S]

IIRC He said on TV that he hoped to get it off soon and to be back on the pitch in Dec/early Jan.

Would be delighted if that really did come to pass and he was ok when took the field.

[Mac]

Muller, Nick8, Gilroy, Tommy, Afoa...............
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/sport/rugby ... -1-5581770

[againstthehead]

think we may have to risk a couple of guys this week eg Afoa. This is the game that determines if we're going to top the group. It's all or nothing. Win this and we're potentially on for a home quarter. Lose it, and we'll be fighting to get through the back door. If Afoa can put in 60 mins then we don't really need him until rounds 5&6....

[againstthehead]

Paddy Wallace ‏@paddywallace12 12 Oct
@DAVEWEIR9 bad injury, should be back before Christmas

[silliwilli]

IIRC He said on TV that he hoped to get it off soon and to be back on the pitch in Dec/early Jan.

Would be delighted if that really did come to pass and he was ok when took the field.

He'll be out of contract come January will he not? I thought he was supposed to prove his fitness before then?

[Joe Schmo]

IIRC He said on TV that he hoped to get it off soon and to be back on the pitch in Dec/early Jan.

Would be delighted if that really did come to pass and he was ok when took the field.

He'll be out of contract come January will he not? I thought he was supposed to prove his fitness before then?

I think once he's assessed to be fit enough to train again and pass whatever fitness tests they throw at him. He hasn't played rugby in a while so he'll have get himself match fit too. He'll have to pass fit to play again before the contract runs out.

[ruckover]

The IRFU gave him a contract in which time he must prove his fitness in order to regain his full-term Central Contract. As far as time-wise goes I would expect the IRFU to have sat down with Fez and his doctors for the contract talks and they would have talked about when he was likely to be back, then based the contract on when he was likely to be back and then give him a time period to prove his fitness in competitive fixtures, let's say a month.

From that we can deduce that if it was indeed a six-month contract then Fez is behind his recovery schedule as that gives him one, maybe two matches at best to prove his fitness in competitive fixtures which in my opinion isn't enough, presuming he is back in December as predicted. On the other hand, again provided he is back in December, the contract is until the end of January or sometime around then to give him four or five matches in which to prove himself. I don't think even the IRFU would be harsh enough to see him coming back in mid-December and only give him a contract until the end of that month to prove himself.

Remember, he's not in our HEC squad at the moment so he definitely won't play against Treviso, and unless he's added for the last two rounds, he won't play against Montpellier or Leicester either. So there's two, possibly four, games that he will miss out on.

[Eggs]

Would think that should he bit fit to play it would be a no brainier that he is added to the squad

[Spiffsson]

I hate to think thet Fez might get nudged put of his contract simply because he does not make some arbitrary date, set some time ago, to prove his fitness. He is a truly exceptional player. Maybe some forget, in his absence, just how outstanding he is. If it takes a few weeks beyond the original estimated date - so what. Better to play safe than rush him back into things if he's not 100%. I hope the powers that be see it this way too and that a great servant of Ulster/Ireland rugby will not be lost because of some parsimonious penny pinching by those who control the purse strings. In my book he's well worth whatever it takes. I want to see the big fella back in an Ulster shirt playing inspired rugby the way he used to.

[Rooster]

I hate to think thet Fez might get nudged put of his contract simply because he does not make some arbitrary date, set some time ago, to prove his fitness. He is a truly exceptional player. Maybe some forget, in his absence, just how outstanding he is. If it takes a few weeks beyond the original estimated date - so what. Better to play safe than rush him back into things if he's not 100%. I hope the powers that be see it this way too and that a great servant of Ulster/Ireland rugby will not be lost because of some parsimonious penny pinching by those who control the purse strings. In my book he's well worth whatever it takes. I want to see the big fella back in an Ulster shirt playing inspired rugby the way he used to.

Well said Spiffy, you can't just tie someone like that to a precise date and if there is evidence he will make it then a few short extensions should be made, within reason of course.
There may though be a deadline set by insurance which could render both our thoughts useless.

[CIMANFOREVER]

Rumour is that Afoa will be in the squad? Can it be true, Blackadder? Has MA forged a calf muscle from purest Green?

[Joe Schmo]

Rumour is that Afoa will be in the squad? Can it be true, Blackadder?

Is that a rumour or a question Ciman? Only two sleeps before we find out!

[CIMANFOREVER]

Rumour is that Afoa will be in the squad? Can it be true, Blackadder?

Is that a rumour or a question Ciman? Only two sleeps before we find out!

Both- heard the rumour, and now askin the question, like. Has anyone heard anything to substantiate? Those on the inside track on here...
Twas on one of the news programmes, may've been Radio Free Ulsterrrrrrrrr, but they, like me, have been known to be wrong.
I'm all a quiver with anticipashun