Broony and Maloney out for another 2 months :-(

Exclusive: Celtic rocked by new operation blow to Scott Brown - The Daily Record

So just as I've been saying all along, it seems Scott Brown's ankle injury was actually quite bad and worse than a lot of us thought. Anybody with any sense could have seen how much he was struggling with that ankle this season. Some of the criticism he has taken for his form has been completely ott when you take into consideration he was clearly handicapped by his injury. Maybe now the people who have been having a go will realise how bad his injury actually was and cut him some slack. Then again they probably won't. No doubt if Aiden McGeady played on with a dodgy ankle he would be a hero for still going out there and trying. Tony Mowbray has made a mistake by continuing to pick Broony while his ankle was knackered and that may be a decision he'll come to regret in the next two months. Broony should not have been playing as much he did and he might have been fully fit now if he had been rested a bit more or had his ankle checked out properly before now.

Broony being out for another 2 months is going to be a real blow for our midfield. A fully fit and on form Scott Brown is the engine of our team and there is no other player in our squad that can bring to the team what Broony does. I for one cannot wait to have him back in our team and bringing that energy and dynamism back to our midfield again. We have only won 2 games out of 6 since Broony has been left out and I don't believe that is total coincidence.

Get well soon Broony boy. Some of us still appreciate what you do.

 

Thats alright mate, atleast the Docs are trying,they will get to the bottom of it, he needs to take as long as takes to heal 100%

 

I know mate. I just wish it wasn't going to take so long to heal that's all.

We need all our players fit right now and especially our important players. Broony is one of them.

 

How could the club doctors, trainers, coaches and Brown himself not realise how bad his injury was?

Playing with that injury could well have made it a * of a lot worse, hopefully he'll get the time he needs to fully recover this time around.

 

We are gona miss him, especially in the next Old Firm game imo! Nguemo will play but with who? Crosas isn't physical enough for me and Robson is just getting slower and slower, the old legs are starting to go imo!

 

Yep I agree. This is Robson's last season at Celtic, the legs are indeed going.

 

I don't think I would say Robson's legs are going. He's just came back from a long spell out injured and maybe needs a few more games to get back to his best. He was played on the wing against Dundee Utd remember and he is definately not a winger. He does well in CM and would be our best option for the Old Firm game.

That's a blow for us that Broony's out. I suppose there will be a lot of happy people on here though as he's been getting slated the last few months. Hopefully if they give him plenty of rest to get it sorted he'll come back a better player.

 

You could possibly be right about Robson I suppose Markie, he just doesn't look as mobile as he once did imo and when a player is the wrong side of 30 then you worry about that.

Yeah there will be plenty people on here who will actually think this is GOOD news. Crazy!

 

We certainly will not miss him against SCOTLANDS SHAME he never turns up against them.If he decides that he is a CELTIC player we might get some decent games from him.Iwill not be holding my breath .

 

Yeah mate, being on the wrong side of 30 now is an issue but I think he's still got a few years left in him.

 

Oh well he wont be going anywhere in Jan

 

Air must be thin up there on your high horse

The reason people were giving him pelters was because he was playing *. If he said he was fit enough to play, TM thought him fit enough to play, and the professionally trained medical staff thought him fit enough to play then the fans are going to "assume" he's fit enough to play. Give US some credit!

Going on these "fit enough to play" performances, he was dreadful. Really really dreadful. If he's not fit enough then again, it is HIS and the MANAGERs responsibility to say so. Not our job to say "awww he's got a sore ankle, he might be an empty shirt but his ankles a bit sore". Give me a break!

 

I'm sorry mmmikey but it just really * me off some of the crap Broony gets thrown at him. The guy plays his heart out for us and is, in my opinion, one of our most important players. He was excellent last season and still gets no credit, thanks or cut any slack.

As for him being "fit enough to play" he quite clearly was not. It's the old Strachan - McManus situation all over again. The player is not going to turn around and say 'nah I'm no playing gaffer' if the manager asks him to. Tony Mowbray was hanging Broony out to dry by playing him while his ankle was in a mess. Now he's going to be out for even longer because of it, this was always going to happen! It was a bad gamble to take and now it's backfired. The medical staff also clearly weren't doing their job properly because it has now come to light that there is something wrong with Broony's ankle that they had clearly missed.

The whole issue is a total * up in my book. With the end result being we are now left without our most influential midfielder for the next two months.

 

100% agree with everything you just said! It really annoys me the amount of * Broony takes, he is the best midfielder we have imo! There not many more committed players in out squad than Broony!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>

 

I agree that it's a cockup but Brown isn't entirely blameless. If the manager asks "are you fit enough to play" it's honesty that is required. It's not "Do you want to play?" Because every man in our squad should answer a resounding YES!. It's can you play at 100%?

So if he classes himself fit enough to play then it's HIS responsibility. I'm not having TM hung him out to dry - obviously he didn't help and should've had more balls in dropping him. But as you've also said, Brown is the heart of our team so if somebody says he is fit it's only natural that Mowbray is going to put this so caleld engine into our team.

Between them, they've cocked up, but Brown claimed himself to be fit enough and played *. That's the bottom line and he got the correct response from the fans.

 

N'Guemo? Crosas? Robson?

 

Crosas? Im not a Crosas fan sorry and can’t say he’s a committed player in anyway whatsoever! <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>

 

Well I put the blame squarely at the door of the medical staff and Tony Mowbray. The medical staff should have diagnosed what the problem with his ankle was sooner(or referred him to someone who COULD diagnose it correctly sooner) and Tony Mowbray must have been watching Scott Brown on the training pitch all week long. Therefore he must have seen the guy struggling and should have realised the guy wasn't fit to play. If you're watching a guy struggling on the training pitch due to an injury and yet still pick him week after week then I think you have to take a fair share of the blame.

It's just in players nature to carry on playing if they're asked. I agree that doesn't make it right but players will often play down the extent of their injuries in order to stay in the team. It is the job of the medics and manager to get an accurate picture of how badly injured the player actually is and then make a properly informed decision about whether they are fit to play or not. Most of us on this forum could see that Broony was toiling so surely to * the people at Celtic Park could see there was something far wrong too?