Deano & Dalian's Umbrella

17 minutes ago, WHY said:

Like I say it maybe easier to leak but I don’t think players sit in the treatment room with a sign round their neck saying they are injured. Could be in there for a number of reasons.

Yes, but let's say, for example a player is having his knee examined and the kit man walks in. He'll say "hey so-and-so, what's up?" and the player will probably say.

2 minutes ago, WHY said:

What I find odd is that when Grealish is injured there are always plenty of ITK’s who say he I will be out and have always been proven to be right. I haven’t seen one of these who have came out and say if he’s staying or going. Might be because an injury is more likely to be leaked but I wouldn’t have thought so. Even Sky and other media outlets have ever came out with an injury story on him until the team sheet is revealed.

 If a player is in the treatment room, all sorts of people are wandering in and out and will see what is going on (and will ask the player if he's injured). People don't wander in and out of the Chairman's office in the same way.

6 minutes ago, jim said:

Who is this? Sounds like a wasteman.

His father is very proud of him!

Wasteman!

I always wanted you to go, into waste man!

1 minute ago, PaulMcGrath_5 said:

Grealish definitely signing a new deal or for City? That’s really unclear.

He also says "all this is just agent talk to get him a better deal"

Just now, jayEm said:

It's from (I assume) the Villa forum on Reddit. I can't see his other posts but the guy says "Nope. I'll just tell you what I've been told because don't put much stock in it personally, but Leon Bailey is a definite, James ward prowse, maybe Todd cantwell and grealish is definitely signing; all this is just agent talk to get him a better deal. I personally don't buy it much but there you are"

Thanks!

4 minutes ago, jayEm said:

Want this to be true but think I'd be more confident about it if the guy himself thought it was

Sorry if I'm being stupid, but what has this person said? I can see posts about this person saying something, but  not what that is.

I saw elsewhere that JWP and Jack have the same agent.

33 minutes ago, Chine said:

Does alcohol consumption have an effect on shin splints ?

There is actually no such thing as shin splints.

What Jack had was a tibial stress fracture.

This article states "Alcohol consumption is a known risk factor for traumatic injuries of all types and has been shown to produce detrimental effects on bone metabolism."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139786/

While this study, admittedly on female army recruits, found that: "Compared with their non-stress-fracture counterparts, recruits who developed stress fractures were more likely to report current or past... alcoholic drinking of > 10 drinks/week..."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s001980170155

11 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

Yeah I wonder about that. Don't think we'll hear anything about it one way or another unfortunately. It'd be very odd for City to spend 100m on a player they know has a limited time left to play. It's not like he's the difference between them winning trophies or not.

These stress fractures won't end his career prematurely, but they could recur, causing him to need time out, if the cause of them isn't addressed (e.g. amount of running, type of surface, alignment of his limbs, alcohol consumption etc.)

The only way this would end his career early is if he continued playing with one and his leg broke from an impact that you wouldn't normally expect to break a leg.

Fortunately these days, when a Villa player complains of shin-pain in pre-season, he is taken seriously and not just told he is being a wimp with disastorous consequences.

Just now, The_Steve said:

You can buy software that deletes keywords. I wouldn’t be shocked if his team drew up a list of keywords to delete in bulk. There’s simply no conspiracy here. 

I hope you're right.

5 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

See. This whole conspiracy about Twitter is so dumb. Took two minutes to find 

 

Proves nothing 

Not that I know much about twitter, but if you go to that tweet, and click that TeamUnited hashtag, the majority of its use seems to be for non-Man United tweets and you can't actually tell from that tweet that it refers to Man U. I think it might have just been missed by whoever is deleting them. Alternatively, if tweets have only been deleted in the last hour or so, it might be deleted soon.

2 minutes ago, AndyM3000 said:

It's mostly pro Utd and anti City funnily enough, so almost all of them.

I don't see how anybody could think that isn't game over.

1 minute ago, AndyM3000 said:

Someone who has access to his account is deleting the old tweets to do with City and Utd. This is a fact.

What City tweets have been deleted? I thought it was all pro-United tweets?

Just now, PaulMcGrath_5 said:

In a further plot twist--apparently they have run out of the letter A at the club shop too.

I am not trying to be funny, someone has genuinely just been to the club shop on twitter and said no A or E.

Covid.

Has anyone who's been into the Club shop and not seen any Grealish shirts, posters etc. asked the staff why this is the case?

48 minutes ago, HalfTimePost said:

Just to start this evening's panic attacks. Conspicuous lack of anything Villa or 'looking forward to getting back to it's etc. 

I wish one of our medical team would tell Jack that there is a correlation between alcohol consumption and increased stress fracture risk. He shouldn't be boozing then training hard in close proximity to each other. Do one or the other, but not both at the same time. Unless he was just on a bike or something and not running, in which case it's not a problem and I'm talking bollocks.

19 minutes ago, Jareth said:

INCREDIBLE HOW THE MANCHESTER CITY WILL GET F*CKED 

If I had a pound for every time I'd clicked on a link promising something like this on the internet....

9 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

11/8 to stay now. Good odds. 

Yesterday, he was odds on to stay and evens to go to City.

He's now odds on to go to City.

I hope this movement is due to bets placed after Jeremy-gate and not because the bookies know something.

Just now, Brumstopdogs said:

 

I'm off to take the cup of coffee back that I just made for my wife.

12 minutes ago, GingerCollins29 said:

Smith's not a doctor either, so when smith said 'he should be back in x number of weeks " he has been told that by the club doctors

I have to say, as soon as we were told Jack had a recurrence of a tibial stress fracture, I told my dad we would be lucky to be back this season given that it would take several weeks to months for the stress fracture to heal, then several weeks more to gradually re-load the bone from non-weight bearing to running, then several weeks of training.

Even if we had the most incompetent medical team in the world, they would know this given the time Jack was out last time this happened.

Either they don't know what they are doing, or Dean has no problems throwing them under the bus in the interests of creating uncertainity about the length of time Jack is out.

Last time, Dean kept saying that the medical team didn't know what was wrong with him despite the fact that the (correct) diagnosis of tibial stress fracture appeared on forums like this one almost immeditely after he was first out.  When people say "shin splints", I just ignore it, because there is no such thing, but when someone says "tibial stress fracture", as Martin Keown did on BT Sport, the other night, I tend to believe it because this isn't the sort of phrase that people just pluck out of thin air.

Anyone know what's happened to ROK? I haven't seen him stood next to Dean, Terry and Shakespeare for the last few games.

I would be astounded if he goes from running on an anti-gravity treadmill one weekend to playing the next.

If this happens, then the medical staff were either being extremely over-cautious in the first place, or extremely reckless now (which as we know from the last injury, they aren't).

I would think he must still be weeks to months away.

18 minutes ago, Kingman said:

Isn't he already the richest Egyptian on the planet? 

Is there a richer Egyptian on the International Space Station?

How is taking the ball off someone "receiving it"?