Sims

[Padge_DRFC]

Nerve damage causing no power in his left leg. Explains his lack of belting down the wing on his return.

Did they ever resolve Rob Jones nerve issue? Neck wasn't it?

Anyway how hope it's a simple fix.

[Alan Southstand]

They did solve RJ’s damage by fusing two of the bones in his spine together, a very risky op. This affected his ability to head the ball, obviously.

Hope Sims gets better soon. We desperately need him.

[JonWallsend]

Certainly explains why he's looked a shadow of  the direct, dynamic player we all know he can be.
Hopefully he will be fully recovered soon

[Chris Black come back]

Unless he has somehow had nerve damage directly on his leg, which is unlikely, he will have a bulging disc in his spine which is putting pressure on the sciatic nerve, which ultimately runs down both legs. This is not a quick fix. He may have had an impact injury which has caused the disc to bulge and might be handled with rest.

[Alan Southstand]

Our last hope of any creative spark in that attacking 3.

[Bailey Vickerage]

Unless he has somehow had nerve damage directly on his leg, which is unlikely, he will have a bulging disc in his spine which is putting pressure on the sciatic nerve, which ultimately runs down both legs. This is not a quick fix. He may have had an impact injury which has caused the disc to bulge and might be handled with rest.

Butler said it’s a nerve issue that’s disrupting the whole left side of his body.

[PDX_Rover]

I have a similar issue. Stems from breaking my back in 2003. Every few years I need an injection into my back that sorts it out.

[BillyStubbsTears]

I think we are f**ked aren't we. Sometimes you get seasons that should be successful blown out the water by bad luck. This is feeling like it.

[vaya]

I think we are f**ked aren't we. Sometimes you get seasons that should be successful blown out the water by bad luck. This is feeling like it.

An (im)perfect storm of picking up injuries against a fixture pile up that's not of our own doing.

[keith79]

Better off having a sticky patch now.

[RoversAlias]

I think we are f**ked aren't we. Sometimes you get seasons that should be successful blown out the water by bad luck. This is feeling like it.

Sims played basically no part in our winning run of 9 in 10 prior to the February slump. I don't think it's time to write off the season yet at all. We didn't have Bogle either, and whilst Bostock is the Whiteman replacement...we also didn't have Whiteman for half of that run.

So, basically, it's far from a foregone conclusion that because we've got a few injuries at the moment - only one of which is season-ending at this stage - our season is doomed to failure.

[Chris the Rover]

Agree RA - but, with every passing game our bench looks weaker and weaker. We can’t afford to lose any more regular first choice players to injury or we may well be done for.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Precisely Chris.

It's about cover and alternatives as players tire and move in and out of form.

If we have a 5-6 game spell at this time of the season without Taylor, Sims, Bostock and Bogle, that means we are relying on Fej, Lokilo, Coppinger and Richards to stay in form and keep on turning Tues-Sat-Tues performances. It MIGHT work. But it probably won't.

[roversdude]

If it wouldn’t play even more havoc with fixtures we could almost do with a covid scare

[PDX_Rover]

Well... we are still in the mix aren’t we? And when do we ever do things the easy way?

[sha66y]

Agree RA - but, with every passing game our bench looks weaker and weaker. We can’t afford to lose any more regular first choice players to injury or we may well be done for.

How do you know the bench is weak if they aren’t getting a regular run out?
Those that are,  aren’t exactly pulling up trees ....
We need some hunger and urgency not same old same old.....

[PDX_Rover]

Better off having a sticky patch now.

That’s what she said....

[drfchound]

PDX, that reminds me of a few years back when a lady customer asked me to call round to look at her damp patch.

[the vicar]

Hound you get all the best jobs mate, being asked to go round to Jane a look at a lady’s damp patch, not many on here been asked to do that you lucky

[WhitstabubbleKen]

Perhaps we need to get a few of the young lads who are forwards into the first team bubble so that we could play them if we run out of senior options.