Have the games already been played?

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Olise has had surgery on his torn hamstring which was evidently severe following his collision with the keeper playing for France U21s last summer.
Rehabilitation of HS surgery is complex and slow, especially for an elite athlete. Olise is clearly not out of the woods yet with this injury as he is getting regular recurrence symptoms.
He pulled up late in the Sheffield United game and then again v Brentford.
He then walked off the pitch v Brighton having pulled up after 10 minutes. In all three instances he was holding his left leg hamstring.
The detail of his issues is unclear. Roy said after Sheffield Utd that the injury was lower down from the surgery. There are four hamstring muscles in the back of the leg and it would be odd for the fine detail of his issues to be shared publicly. But it is clear he has an ongoing problem in the region.
Problematic hamstrings are tricky things and it is very hard to know how to optimise dealing with them through a recuperation of rest and exercise. Unfortunately recurring injury is not uncommon.
However, he will be receiving top quality attention and Im sure it is being closely monitored.
At his age if it is rested and treated correctly he should fully recover.
It is also highly likely based on his recent performances that he must be a well sought after player. I dont know how potential buyers will view this now. They may want to see him having an extended run for us or they may take the risk and rely on their own teams to make/keep him fully fit moving forwards and snaffle him up at a fee to be agreed.
Either way, it is important that Olise makes a full recovery. He is shaping into a top top talent and the world of football needs players of his exceptional ability to perform at the highest levels.

I’m not sure about heaping all this blame on Roy. Would I have brought him on…no

The question is why was he assessed as fit to play ? Whoever on the physio side is making these decisions needs to be removed immediately they are dangerously incompetent.

My 10p worth.

What has happened is done. Now pointless to keep going over the decision to bring him on. I myself would have given him Brighton AND the Chelsea game off. I would not have had him on the bench and thought of the best chance of the bigger picture.

Anyway, as to if we see him again, I think we will. He seems pretty level headed and if he wanted out he could have gone last summer but to everyone’s surprise he signed on with a new 4 year deal.

If we stay up I think he will be here next year as will Eze.

I think the chances are we are more likely to lose 1 or both of our centre backs first. MG because he is of the quality looked at by the big boys and Anderson because he just looks fed up and wants out.

If we go down obviously that changes everything.

I also get some comfort that we will get a much truer fee should we sell Olise or Eze now with there new contracts than we would have gotten previously which you would hope be used on the squad not on the new stadium or bonuses

Funnily I have questioned warm up effectiveness for Palace players. Henderson was injured 6 or 7 weeks ago after an early keeper kick that looked suspiciously like it was caused by lack of proper warm up.

If I was Parish I’d be all over this as if it is a contributing factor it would be inexcusable from the players, coaching and staff and culture at the club which would point to apathy.

Is Roy good at this minutia stuff or has he just become a big picture statesman figure.

As I and others were saying on here live on the match thread just before half time please god don’t bring Olise on in second half UNLESS we get 2 goals back and there’s a sniff of a result. Only then risk him towards the end. That was the sensible risk reward decision and we called it. To risk him, 3 goals down for a whole half showed fuzzy thinking. Was the mistake compounded by him not having time to properly warm up. Let’s not even go there. 😟

Anyway…mistakes are made. We all make them. Roy was clearly panicking at half time and perhaps wasn’t thinking clearly. I forgive.

Edited by XKudu (11 Feb 2024 10.36am)