Tom Cannon officially signs!

[Jobyfox]

On 14/09/2023 at 22:56, Chelmofox said:

No. He’s dead. 

This made me laugh more than it should really 

[LCFCCHRIS]

On 15/09/2023 at 21:48, Trav Le Bleu said:

Little known fact.

 

Seagrave used to be a native American cemetery.

 

[jayfox26]

14 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

As long as he's fit for before we lose Daka and Nacho to afcon. 

It will come out in a few weeks that Cannon has an African relative and is eligible for afcon 

[FLINTHAMFC]

On 15/09/2023 at 21:48, Trav Le Bleu said:

Little known fact.

 

Seagrave used to be a native American cemetery.

Blimey don't let Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren know. She will want it given back to her ancestors.

[dynamark]

Any chance we could get Bobby Ball as a strike partner.

Seagrave - golfing gods speaking ( and Frank and the newts)

[brucey]

On 15/09/2023 at 03:18, iancognito said:

The pitches were re-laid after Rodgers first season, and all the pitches at both the ground and Seagrave were done to the same standard. Given we have a Turf Academy with all the grass and ground science it's possible to get I don't think they'd be employing random contractors using leftovers and apprentices to lay the grass at a £100m facility.

 

I don't know how it'd be possible to analyse our injuries without official club input. No-one outside the physios and doctors would have the specifics of the injuries, such as how it was caused (twisting, turning, impact etc)  21/22 was crazy but other clubs had similar issues such as Leeds and Liverpool. That season aside it wouldn't even get a mention if we were still at Belvoir Drive. Seagrave just gives everything a focal point. Worth noting also the womens team have had 3 or 4 players with serious knee injuries and they've never used Seagrave until the last couple of weeks.

It's not just Seagrave, pretty much all of our serious in game injuries in recent years have been during home games at the KP, whereas nearer 50% would be expected. 

 

Dave Rennie's PhD was on the effect on playing surfaces on injuries... 

 

https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/11107/1/2019renniephd.pdf

 

[goose2010]

Stress Fracture in his back. Was injured when we signed him. 

 

Seen as a long term investment so that's what he was signed. 

 

Maybe seen as Vardy's replacement for next season ? 

[turlo]

this was a known existing injury when we signed him!

 

 

[James_lcfc]

So we bought him with a view to AFCON then, fair enough.

 

Hopefully he can get some game time in December to get up to speed in preparation.

[Alf Bentley]

15 hours ago, jayfox26 said:

It will come out in a few weeks that Cannon has an African relative and is eligible for afcon 

 

....but then the Internet will reveal bone scans proving that he's actually 55 years old, so only eligible for the seniors tournament. 

 

Anyway, isn't it about time someone changed the thread title to "Tom Cannon officially signs on the sick"? 

[Big_Nige]

Why wait for them to get injured at Seagrave when we can sign them already injured 

 

[fazzyfox]

They asked Rudkin to sign a back-up striker but he thought they said back-op ? 

[Master Fox]

34 minutes ago, turlo said:

this was a known existing injury when we signed him!

 

 

So we spent £7 million on a player who could be in a wheelchair soon, great. That’s prime Rudkin & Top. Even with his paralysis he’s still better than Kels and Daka. 

[Itsthejoeker]

26 minutes ago, Master Fox said:

So we spent £7 million on a player who could be in a wheelchair soon, great. That’s prime Rudkin & Top. Even with his paralysis he’s still better than Kels and Daka. 

When he recovers and bags goals for fun, will you credit Rudkin/Top or Enzo?

 

medical are designed to assess the risk of injury and the management team then make the call. I’m sure enzo could have said no thanks

[Simonb]

Does make me think, could we have just left this one until January to do another medical and sign him then, and if not get someone else in? If I'm reading it right, it states similar to praet... I take that to mean how long he will be out for.

 

Praets gor another 10 to 12 weeks hasn't he? So that's mid December at best.

 

7m fee, wages and medical costs just seems a bit stupid to take a risk

[Simonb]

1 minute ago, Itsthejoeker said:

When he recovers and bags goals for fun, will you credit Rudkin/Top or Enzo?

 

medical are designed to assess the risk of injury and the management team then make the call. I’m sure enzo could have said no thanks

Hope this will end up being the case. From the brief bit I've seen and heard I was really happy with this signing, but just seems like we could've left Everton to get him fit then sign him then. Maybe that's why he was 7m though I guess

[Number 6]

If Everton had rehabbed him and he was ready to go out in Jan I think he'd have been going for more than £7m. Seems we jumped the gun because there was less competition due to injury, and prevents the Jan window madness. 

 

Obviously a gamble on his recovery but the injury will have been assessed.

[sacreblueits442]

22 minutes ago, Itsthejoeker said:

When he recovers and bags goals for fun, will you credit Rudkin/Top or Enzo?

 

medical are designed to assess the risk of injury and the management team then make the call. I’m sure enzo could have said no thanks

...by the sounds of Maresca's comments, he is either very keen to get this player on our books, or any alternative forward who could cover for AFCON!!!

[Dandy king]

15 hours ago, brucey said:

It's not just Seagrave, pretty much all of our serious in game injuries in recent years have been during home games at the KP, whereas nearer 50% would be expected. 

 

Dave Rennie's PhD was on the effect on playing surfaces on injuries... 

 

https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/11107/1/2019renniephd.pdf

 

Can't wait to read this 

[foxfanazer]

So we wanted Graham Potter last season and now we've signed Brian Potter instead 

[sylofox]

Buying sick notes now. Not like we have enough as it is ffs.

[Livid]

Logically if we're OK signing players with medium to long term injuries, you would think that financially the club is on a sound footing.

 

Than again seeing how it has been run over the last couple of years.......

[Sol thewall Bamba]

I'm usually pretty scathing of our injury record but I don't actually mind this so much. The guy is obviously a long term signing, Nacho and Vardy off at the end of this season and hopefully we can con some poor bastards to take Daka as well. 

 

As long as Nacho can step up and Cannon is back for the new year this is fine.

[sacreblueits442]

...I  wonder if Vardy would look to continue playing until 40 years old!!!

  He seems to go against the grain in this game, having him in the Premier in some capacity would be great to see. Miller has done it, different position, but I  would not rule Vardy out.

[FrankieADZ]

3 hours ago, Simonb said:

Does make me think, could we have just left this one until January to do another medical and sign him then, and if not get someone else in? If I'm reading it right, it states similar to praet... I take that to mean how long he will be out for.

 

Praets gor another 10 to 12 weeks hasn't he? So that's mid December at best.

 

7m fee, wages and medical costs just seems a bit stupid to take a risk

guess depending on how bad Cannon's stress fracture is, if its really bad then he'd have failed the medical;

so it could be a couple of months to 6 months potentially, with the latter the worse case, which i doubt he has, so I'm guess maybe late October slowly getting back into some sort of training then mid to late November in and around the team