Everton’s Head of Sports Medicine Mick Rathbone has today left the Club

[ToffeeDan]

Every week a key player is out is frustrating to the manager and the team (and of course to us). Given that the absence of Jags, Yak and Mikel was nearly 3 years worth of non-active footballer (1 year each near enough) that will have been in the region of £7-8M worth of wages (plus NI) doing precisely nothing to help the cause. With more accurate analysis perhaps a back-up could or would have been purchased to allay the absence of players in certain positions. All in all the wrong diagnosis isn't good enough. You can't get them all right of course.

 

[The Holy Trinity]

Every week a key player is out is frustrating to the manager and the team (and of course to us). Given that the absence of Jags, Yak and Mikel was nearly 3 years worth of non-active footballer (1 year each near enough) that will have been in the region of £7-8M worth of wages (plus NI) doing precisely nothing to help the cause. With more accurate analysis perhaps a back-up could or would have been purchased to allay the absence of players in certain positions. All in all the wrong diagnosis isn't good enough. You can't get them all right of course.

This backs up the fact that something needed changing then TD doesn't it ?

 

[The Holy Trinity]

A while ago I posted about the pitch conditions at Finch Farm & GP, and whether there was a link to all the injuries we were getting. Down here in the Antipodes, they have noted this as an issue & have addressed the different ground conditions to some extent. For example, you can be playing on a cold, wet, wintry VIC ground one week, in the QLD tropics the next, and follow up with a visit to the dry grounds in WA.

However, this has created quite a level of expertise in the area of knee surgery, to the point where a player who has done his ACL can be back to playing in 90 days, rather than 12 months!

In other words...Moysie needs another cobber!!!!

Very interesting Biggy, maybe that's the way forward. Grab Moyesie when the Blues are over there mate and have a word !!

 

[Matt Damon]

A while ago I posted about the pitch conditions at Finch Farm & GP, and whether there was a link to all the injuries we were getting. Down here in the Antipodes, they have noted this as an issue & have addressed the different ground conditions to some extent. For example, you can be playing on a cold, wet, wintry VIC ground one week, in the QLD tropics the next, and follow up with a visit to the dry grounds in WA.

However, this has created quite a level of expertise in the area of knee surgery, to the point where a player who has done his ACL can be back to playing in 90 days, rather than 12 months!

In other words...Moysie needs another cobber!!!!

The key words there are "radical surgery" i.e. using a new technique (often with unknown post operative results).

25 years ago a cruciate ligament rupture was career ending. Even 5 years ago it was career threatening.... and still is in extreme cases.


But get your point.

Oh and Finch Farm has training pitches that are amongst the best in the country... even the training pitches have under-soil heating etc

 

[BiggyRat]

Very interesting Biggy, maybe that's the way forward. Grab Moyesie when the Blues are over there mate and have a word !!

I'll give it a go & try & get as much out as I can whilst they are dragging me away...they don't like pitch invaders here...:blink:

The key words there are "radical surgery" i.e. using a new technique (often with unknown post operative results).

Indeed. It's probably still at the point where the "individual" players unique condition could have a lot to do with the ops success, but it's becoming more common. I think they are still at the softly, softly stage & team physios are being very conservative when opting for the treatment.

Oh and Finch Farm has training pitches that are amongst the best in the country... even the training pitches have under-soil heating etc

I don't doubt it. My concern, I suppose, is that we don't play on Finch Farm. Bear in mind I was last at Goodison in 1973 so I'm sure the pitch would match FF for quality, but this was & still is an issue over here. My team, Essendon, trains at their old home ground, and exposed windy suburban ground, yet play on a pretty ordinary surface that has a roof & doesn't grow the turf evenly. So, in essence, the players are conditioned on one surface & play on an entirely different surface. Now, yes, of course, when you play away then you have the same issue, but I think its important that there's a certain standardised level of playing surfaces...a bigger issue than this thread...sorry, I went off on a tangent there didn't I?

 

[TimmyDaBEST]

We should check out the knee specialist here australia the new LARS procedure has seen AFL players like daniel motlop and others recover from ACL injurys in 10-12 weeks

 

[Fletch]

I heard that Baz himself gained a cruciate injury whilst running on the pitch to treat Pienaar and he didnt even notice it himself. It was when he get home his wife said "Mick love, why is your leg facing the wrong way"

 

[Desaparecido]

I heard that Baz himself gained a cruciate injury whilst running on the pitch to treat Pienaar and he didnt even notice it himself. It was when he get home his wife said "Mick love, why is your leg facing the wrong way"

LOL...

 

[micknick]

Could be for the best hes gone, we have been far too 'unlucky' with our injuries to be honest.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Has he gone to another club or retired. He's probably aged about 15 years in the last 18 months. And he must have been coining it with all the overtime

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Apparently Mick was in the dugout for the UTD game, can anyone confirm?