Nellie

Just heard from Flitdog...Nellie has broken his ankle

Get on the mend soon dude

Now then who's volunteering for kick/punt return next Monday?

maybe a honoury session when our veteran Warrior gets on his crutches and his missus lets him out near us

Get well soon Nellie. Is it a bad break?

This can only do good things for your forum posting, not being able to walk anywhere else! Some amazing returns before that though.

Get well soon Nellie

This is new for me someone got injured and it was not after a hit by me the team must be getting better.

Stick in Nellie we need you back

See what happens when im not there to protect you man! Get better soon, you're too important just to coach.

As far as I'm aware Dan, it seems to be a clean break the Doc say's "He did a good job of it", so it's looking 8 weeks in plaster at least.
Regarding your questions on ankle support I don't think it would help at all, as all the tension build up has to go somewhere when somebody rolls on your ankle, or you get it caught in the turf. It would just end up probably as a leg fracture, unfortunately we just seem to be bitten by the injury bug at the moment.

I'll see him tonight when he gets out of theatre and see how he is doing then, should be able to report tomorrow lunch time.

Get well soon nellie dude, we need you out their.

Get well soon Nelly

I forgot to say last night lads that when I was out on the road waiting for the ambulance to turn up a bloke walked past me...on crutches...walking his fucking dog!!!

DUUUUDE get well soon mate

Unlucky mate, & you were one of the regular lads that turned up as well..

What happend, was it the norm injury on astro turf, you turn one way but the cleat locks in the turf??

Were you wearing studs or astro turf boots?

Who is going to step into Dude's boots now & go down like a bag of shit and make the over 40's look good when ever we hit him!!!!!

Get well soon mate & now there is loads of time for you to spend it in your caravan!!

it was more of his ankle getting trapped under tackler rolling in from the side, it didnt look too bad i thaught at first he sprained it.



theres a bit of give in the astro turf i wore trainers and got plenty of grip in the wet, only problem with that is one of our heavies wid studs standing on me lal toe

It was as Dave called it, just a freak injury could have been anybody really. I went to see him this evening for about 5 minutes as he was so doped up on Morphine, that he had no idea where he was and just wanted to sleep. Operation was a complete success, so his bones just have to play the waiting game now and see how he heals.

Whether he will play again, I think is very much leaning towards not, and just going into coaching.

I've got his pads and helmet so I'll be bringing them on Thursday along with a warm body to occupy them as the only thing holding him back at the moment is the £ for the pads. I'll keep you all updated on his progress, he is hoping to be out tomorrow and back home depending on how he feels in the morning.

thats bad stuff.

all the best nellie

What's happening with it? Is he keeping it to caoch in???

At the moment I'm on crutches and it'll be that way for bout 6 weeks, then another 2-3 monts before I'm totally healed.

It was one of those things that couldn't be avoided, Thats life. Just a shame that it wasn't during a game

That's the spirit

Thats life. Just a shame that it wasn't during a game

Thats why we love Nellie, although a normal human would have probably wished for the injury not to have happened at all, lol.

It's great to hear from you Nellie son. Ahh fuck what the wife and doc says, Mariners come before them, priorities man!! I'm sure you could step in at 40-0 on a QB Kneel haha! Get well soon dude, love Italian Stallion!

At least in a game you got an excuse and it would've been better to brag about , the chicks love it when you take one for the team you see!