Concrete Ron

[Chipsticks]

I have a feeling Lambert's took him round the back of the North Stand car park and put him down.

[Mortimer's Bear]

He's a gonner.

Would you care to expand?

[neo_Villan]

Close to returning according to the PhysioRoom on twitter. 

[eastie]

Kendrick has promised to press lambert on the matter tomorrow but as he said he's asked before and not really got any kind of conclusive answer .

[eastie]

Close to returning according to the PhysioRoom on twitter. 

Vlaar tweeted he was close to a return over a month ago and expected to play against either stoke or Liverpool but many games later he is still absent.

[silhillvilla]

All very odd. I sense all is not as it seems .

[kippaxvilla2]

It's par for the course, when you're doing shit, 'injuries' seem to last a lifetime suggesting some players haven't got the stomach for a fight.  No one is ever injured when you're doing well because they fear for their place in the team.

[PaulWinch again]

Well we need him back badly.

[Chris Jameson]

Badly would be an improvement on some of them.

[curiousorange]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if he'd been suffering DVT.

[frank black]

Baker puts himself in there where it hurts thats why he picks up the injuries He and Clark are maturing well together, a few mistakes here and there but its all about getting the opertunity and making best use of it.

'Epic fail' as my son would say

[pestria]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if he'd been suffering DVT.

Dvt? What makes you think that?

[villadelph]

Ron Vlaar will be back in training next week.

[curiousorange]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if he'd been suffering DVT.

Dvt? What makes you think that?

It can take a long time to recover from although there's no 'injury' per se. Occlusion in an affected limb can lead to swelling, sensations of burning and numbness and severe pain, and even if anticoagulated there's no stated recovery time. I'm not saying he has that or even if it's likely (most medical searches rule it out in favour of something less severe and non-specfic) but it's an idea as to why a general knock is taking so long to heal. If he's had a few operations in the past, Concrete might have developed some clots that have caused some damage.

[Jarpie]

Ron Vlaar will be back in training next week.

Where did you hear that? Shit, we would've needed him ages ago.