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Diarra out till December


Dirge said:
Senegal won’t pick a player with zero match fitness
He won’t be fit for us till January,given he will need a couple of weeks full contact training.
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I hope you're right, it works well for us if that's the case, but given it's a big tournament that they surely have an eye on doing well in, and the knockouts aren't until early Jan, I wonder if they'll take the risk and take him anyway, even without being match fit.

Not unusual in big tournaments for teams to nurse a player through group stages.

(different question, but who gets the final say on if he's fit or not? If our docs say he's not for, does that overrule Senegal, or could they call him up even if his leg is hanging off?)
 
martinsmithsonofpele said:
It's a blow but we have RIgg, Le Fee and Neil who can play there. We'll cope.
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Its a massive blow, let's not downplay it. The manager clearly prefers Le Fee on the left, which leaves an 18 year old kid and Dan Neil who loads on this forum thought wasn't good enough last season in the championship.
Roker Mackem said:
Did well on Sunday
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For 180 seconds
 
It's a blow but we played well without him on Sunday. Le Fee in the middle gives us a bit more creativity and Rigg out wide gives us a lot of energy and defensive support for the full back.
 
Nedved said:
I hope you're right, it works well for us if that's the case, but given it's a big tournament that they surely have an eye on doing well in, and the knockouts aren't until early Jan, I wonder if they'll take the risk and take him anyway, even without being match fit.

Not unusual in big tournaments for teams to nurse a player through group stages.

(different question, but who gets the final say on if he's fit or not? If our docs say he's not for, does that overrule Senegal, or could they call him up even if his leg is hanging off?)
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Realistically I think it's Diarra himself who would have the final say. Senegal can call him up regardless, and we aren't allowed to stop players accepting.
 
Mowgli said:
Its a massive blow, let's not downplay it. The manager clearly prefers Le Fee on the left, which leaves an 18 year old kid and Dan Neil who loads on this forum thought wasn't good enough last season in the championship.
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Loads on this forum also thought Speakman and Le Bris weren't good enough for the championship, like.

I will not use that as a metric to judge anything by.
 
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