Monday, 20 December 2010

Hines' Career In Danger

It is very worrying to hear that Zavon's dodgy knee has swollen up again. The lad was out for a whole year because of the injury and has played precious little football since his return. Avram said it "wasn't good" and that is surely the understatement of the year! The boy has great promise but so much of his effectiveness depends on pace and the ability to swerve around challenges. The knee joint takes a lot of stress and if weak, will give out time and again.

One poster asked why Hines looked so off balanced against Unreal City. Perhaps we now know why. I hope I am wrong but this sounds like a career threatening injury to me.

20 comments:

Anonymous said...

so the headline should be .... Hines Career COULD be in danger

Hammersfan said...

Could have been yes. But it wasn't.

Anonymous said...

kevin in manchester writes..

have to admit it doesn't look good if true. yet more evidence that the fates have conspired against us.. our injury list is as bad as i can recall.. in the 42 point relegation season we suffered similar blows in the first half of the season(Kanoute and Di canio hardly played) and didn't recover despite being able to field the likes of johnson, carrick, cole etc ..can't see Grant masterminding an escape act. The art of coaching is to get inside your players minds and meld them to your bidding- I don't like the idea of a revolving door anymore than you but it seems, by his public utterances, that Grant just doesn't get the scale of the crisis and has an inflated idea of his own powers of motivation ...we're doomed I tell you!

Jonny said...

It wasn't because a headline more coherent with the truth wouldn't get as many hits.

HF is basically a tabloid blogger.

Stani Army said...

Let's hope he hasn't the same cartilage problem as Ledley King. That would be disastrous.

I hope it's a new injury that can be sorted and not related to his previous knee problem.

Comical Ali said...

HF - Have you read this article by Martin Samuel? It's a good read...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1340050/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Hang-Avram-You-save-Green-Shield-stamps.html

Anonymous said...

Another cheap attempt to get traffic onto this site.

Anonymous said...

headline should be...Hines has an injury so I'm going to speculate wildly that it is career threatening to satisfy my own lust procrastination and perpetuate my ego trip of a blog.

Hammersfan said...

My lust procrastination? Do you know what procrastination means? Please explain the phrase!

Kevin, I agree, we are doomed, doomed, I tell you, doomed. Good job we have an undertaker as manager!

Tabloid blogger? With pictures of half naked crumpet all over the blog? I utterly refute that allegation! This is the Financial Times of blogs!

The Mail don't like Grant do they? But then the Mail don't like immigrants. And the Mail are a long way to the right and Grant is Jewish so are you surprised?

Sav said...

You are missing the substance of their argument HF. It is so unlike the person you like to present yourself to be. Attack the Daily Mail all you want, but their arguments do make a lot of sense to me. They should make a lot of sense to anyone who wants to see the truth about Grant and his record! The sad thing is that we sit here discussing whether Grant is fairly treated or not rather than discussing how to take some action, desperate albeit, to save our club! Pathetic!

Anonymous said...

I fear this eye catching headline has more truth to it than we would like.

A friend of mine in the game replied to my "& Hines will be back soon" comment with he had heard his knee is finished !

Big shame. !

Hammersfan said...

I have read the report Sav and it tells me nothing I don't already know. I don't agree with most of it, but I do agree that we should sell in January and not AFTER we are relegated!

Interestingly, we have just two points less than we had after 18 games last season. We got out of it then so...

Sav said...

Is this the start of the new optimist and confident for the future HF then! Horay! We need to believe in it if there is any chance for it to happen. Our great escape with Tevez a few years back was surely a greater miracle than this. After all we are only 3 point away from safety and still have 20 games to play.

Anonymous said...

Put simply, relegation this season could have the most far-reaching consequences of any setback for a major football club in modern times, changing its dynamic, perhaps for ever.

Leeds dropped two divisions but will return one day — perhaps next season — as a significant force in a one-club city.

West Ham risk losing not just their Premier League status, but influence over their traditional territory.

It seems incredible that Sullivan and Gold would speak of owning West Ham as a lifelong dream and then allow this to happen.

Basildon_Bob said...

22'57 YES it is interesting but we don't have Zola at the helm

Hammersfan said...

Identify the Tevez in our present squad Sav. And the Yossi. And the Collins. And the Etherington. And the Neill. And the Zamora!

Anonymous said...

you hated Neill!

Hammersfan said...

I didn't rate him in subsequent seasons but I did think he was good during the Great Escape. And he was a right back! We haven't had one since!

H4MM3R said...

11:16 he was bloody epic and that's why we've struggled every since he left.

TIS said...

Hammer I have to agree - we've not been the same since we lost dear Lucas - he new how to shout and scream and generally run things.