Originally posted by Neil Young
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Aaaargh! 
OK, this is my take on it:
I agree in the sense I'm surprised they didn't play safe. But I do wonder how many of us really have a full understanding of what it's like to be at the athletic level required of a Premiership footballer, how often they play with pain, what niggles they customarily play through, and so on.
The most rational explanation to me is that it was thought possible he'd be ok and be able to play most or all of the game but there was a chance he wouldn't. And influencing the decision is a view on how important he might be in a game like this. So when they balanced the probabilities and factored in the importance, they ended up deciding it was a risk worth taking.
We now know it was a gamble they lost. But that was unknowable at the time.
Also we don't know whether he'd have been out two or three months anyway, so it might have lost us nothing to give it a try. Instead the widespread assumption seems to be that he made it a million times worse and instead of missing two or three months, he might have been back for next weekend, or whatever.
I don't mind people guessing about that, as long as it's recognised as such. It just baffles me that a lack of respect for the judgement of the club's medical staff is exceeded only by the faith in one's own, even without (or maybe because of) no formal medical training whatsoever.
OK, this is my take on it:
I agree in the sense I'm surprised they didn't play safe. But I do wonder how many of us really have a full understanding of what it's like to be at the athletic level required of a Premiership footballer, how often they play with pain, what niggles they customarily play through, and so on.
The most rational explanation to me is that it was thought possible he'd be ok and be able to play most or all of the game but there was a chance he wouldn't. And influencing the decision is a view on how important he might be in a game like this. So when they balanced the probabilities and factored in the importance, they ended up deciding it was a risk worth taking.
We now know it was a gamble they lost. But that was unknowable at the time.
Also we don't know whether he'd have been out two or three months anyway, so it might have lost us nothing to give it a try. Instead the widespread assumption seems to be that he made it a million times worse and instead of missing two or three months, he might have been back for next weekend, or whatever.
I don't mind people guessing about that, as long as it's recognised as such. It just baffles me that a lack of respect for the judgement of the club's medical staff is exceeded only by the faith in one's own, even without (or maybe because of) no formal medical training whatsoever.
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