Mavies

[LeverEnd]

It's no jinx, like others before him his body is clearly not up to playing regular professional football. I can't see him bring anything but a bit-part player for us now. Unlikely that someone who has been so regularly injured will improve in that regard into his late 20s.
Very sad situation, but he can still play a part even if talk of building a team round him seems pointless.

[bobo the clown]

Stunned. Not that I wasn't feared but blimey One thing after another for the lad.

There are others to pick but he does have that little something which allows him to do something different and the ONLY one we have who can run at people when with the ball. As LeverEnd says Mavies must just not have a body which can manage the strains of the game in the long term.

The midfield curse goes on ... Sean Davis, The Moo, Mark Davies, Holden, all good players who we've seen injured/ill. Even the emerging Vela for over a year.

[wigan white]

Chatting to a fellow Wanderer at work this morning and we wondered if the fact that Mavies still lives in Birmingham and commutes to euxton every day, and whether that travelling by car (whether he drives himself or has a driver) would have an effect on his legs as he then goes straight into training from having a long drive. Might have nowt to do with it, but it is a point.

[jmjhb]

Chatting to a fellow Wanderer at work this morning and we wondered if the fact that Mavies still lives in Birmingham and commutes to euxton every day, and whether that travelling by car (whether he drives himself or has a driver) would have an effect on his legs as he then goes straight into training from having a long drive. Might have nowt to do with it, but it is a point.

He lives in Lostock...

[SmokinFrazier]

I'm really disappointed about this news. Our season was just starting to look really positive and then we lose a key player, one who is irreplaceable for us, either from the rest of the squad or in the transfer window. It's disappointing. I feel for Davies too, of course, but this injury is a significant blow to our hopes of a strong finish to the season. If we could have produced the form we showed against Wigan with regularity, I think the play offs would have been a viable target but it's difficult to play that well without players as important as Davies.

Hopefully he's back for a good run at the end of the season, anyway. He's a quality player.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I'm sad for Mark but trying not to let it become chip-piss. I'm tempted to think we couldn't have gone through too many games with Danns and DaviesM at the 2 in the 4-2-3-1 anyway. Hopefully someone (Vela?) will step up. I do like MD as a player and think he brings us something the others don't, but frankly it's not half as important if we've got a mobile front four rather than the enforced positional paralysis under Freedman.

[jaffka]

Oh dear! What a shame.

It would appear that this is going to be the story of his career.

[Hoboh]

Beginning to look like a shame we didn't off load him for some cash being realistic, very sad.

[bobo the clown]

Chatting to a fellow Wanderer at work this morning and we wondered if the fact that Mavies still lives in Birmingham and commutes to euxton every day, and whether that travelling by car (whether he drives himself or has a driver) would have an effect on his legs as he then goes straight into training from having a long drive. Might have nowt to do with it, but it is a point.

He lives in Lostock...

Which is still a fair way from Euxton at rush hour.

[boltonboris]

Beginning to look like a shame we didn't off load him for some cash being realistic, very sad.

I think his injuries are the reason we've been unable to

[LeverEnd]

I'm sad for Mark but trying not to let it become chip-piss. I'm tempted to think we couldn't have gone through too many games with Danns and DaviesM at the 2 in the 4-2-3-1 anyway. Hopefully someone (Vela?) will step up. I do like MD as a player and think he brings us something the others don't, but frankly it's not half as important if we've got a mobile front four rather than the enforced positional paralysis under Freedman.

Lovely stuff! You should do this for a living.