Billy Sharp - tweaked his ankle a little bit. (but with God's grace, might live)

[Diar]

Just have a look on the VSC site under "Dunk on twitter" if you want to know how most of us feel. Maybe it'll stop this over reaction to the minority comments.

 

[Diar]

No reaction? Sadly, Im not surprised.

 

[Lush]

No reaction? Sadly, Im not surprised.

Having had a wasted afternoon yesterday, seems a shame that you're wasting this afternoon on here.

 

[Sam Ovett]

Dunk was my motm

 

[Cian]

I'm sure you could get Glenda Murray on loan from Palarse if you're that short of strikers.
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Is he not injured now as well?

 

[BrightonGuy]

Because I have listed several sources backing up my statement with examples showing current sports professionals claiming (and in Keane's place even confirming) that this kind of practice is common.

Watch the replay tonight; if they show it in full with the slow motion from all the different angles as was shown in the stream, you will see it was a hurrendous challenge and could only possibly end in an injury to the receiving player. There was no possible way Dunk could get the ball, neither was his tackle anywhere near the ball, and the tackle began before the player even had received the ball. I suggest due to the timing of the challenge coming fairly soon after half time, it was made in response to a need to be more physical to compete with Doncaster's physicality, which had dominated us in the first half. Is that not feasible?

Hold on i did look at the replays and i did see the football league show which actually showed the tackle.
Now not once on the FBL show did they say that it was a shocking tackle and Could have been let alone should have been sent off. All they said was it is a big blow for Donny.

Furthermore i Do Not recall any of your fans chanting an OFF OFF OFF at all to the tackle. Where as, now you have found out that he maybe out for a long time time this season you ALL seem to believe that it was the worst tackle there has ever been.

 

[Diar]

Having had a wasted afternoon yesterday, seems a shame that you're wasting this afternoon on here.

Yet again I find myself agreeing with a Brighton fan on here. I tried.
Goodbye Brightonians, its been.... emotional.

 

[El Presidente]

It was a bad tackle, and I don't think there is a soul on this board or any other that wishes Billy Sharp anything other than a speedy and painless recovery.

 

[Hercules Rockerfeller]

During the the match it looked like a shocking tackle from behind, going straight through Sharp, but when I saw it again Dunk is clumsily going for the ball, but there is no malice in it at all. Maybe he wasn't going to win the ball, but for anyone to suggest he's deliberately trying to injury him is preposterous.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Definitely a foul, definitely worth a yellow. You will see tackles like this go in in every game - and as has been mentioned before there was one particularly nasty one in the 1st half of yesterday's game before Dunk's. It's particularly horrible when someone picks up a nasty injury as a result, but it is still an accident that happens in football, and 98% of times tackles like that result in nothing. Conversely, Celtic lost Emilio Izaguirre for the season today from a perfectly legitimate tackle. Best wishes to Billy Sharp and Dunk deserved his yellow for a bad tackle, but you gotta treat the injury as what it was, which is just very bad luck.

 

[Joe Gatting's Dad]

At the time, from my view in the WSU, it looked as if his right foot took the ball and his left caught the player. It certainly was not with malicious intent.

 

[Turkey]

The refs in Sharps way, he's gone in for it side by side, to either block Sharp taking the ball left as he'd be stuck between Dunk and Ref or because he thinks Sharp is going to move the ball left. As it happens, Sharp anticipates a challenge, put his arm out and actually moves into it. It's a red for me as he's jumped in from behind, but I don't think he's gone in trying to hurt Sharp.

 

[c0lz]

as i posted before

the commenter reporting the match says it all,
Dunks tackle on Sharpe reports as .. clumsily done
Naylor tackle on Barnes reports as .. horrible challange awful challenge,a lunging challenge, was high and not in control
I do hope Sharpe makes a full recovery but it was a unlucky Accident.

 

[Acker79]

For what it's worth, my thoughts:

-Would Naylor have only gotten a yellow if Barnes hadn't jumped up straight away?
-Dunk made the decision to jump in when there was a space, Sharp then moved and Dunk had already started to challenge, it wasn't deliberate, it wasn't an attempt to harm, it was poorly judged.
-For me, it's the sort that if it had been a red, at the time I would have been upset, on replay I would have accepted the red, but would have still classified it as 'sometimes you get them sometimes you don't.
-Lualua was going down too easily. Yes, he was fouled several times, but he was also falling over at the slightest touch.
-The ref was inconsistent. The time he decided to book lualua was a time when he didn't dive (not that I think it was a foul, either), he then gave him a free kick when he slipped while turning away from a Donny player. Both teams have enough cause to be peeved at him.
-The avatar photo, which is in El pres's post doesn't seem to me to show anything, other than Dunk's left foot is tucked under him, and his right one is somewhere in the vicinity of Sharp's left foot.
-It's unfair to judge a challenge on the damage caused. There will be many challenges that are much more dangerous than Dunk's that will not result in as much damage.

 

[mona]

The Championship is a very physical division and always has been back to when it was Division 2.

There were two bad challenges yesterday that could have been red carded on another day.

Was not happy when Monkhouse broke LuaLua's leg at Hartlepool - yes I was there - in a bad, but I believe not deliberate, challenge.

If Billy Sharp has a broken ankle/leg it puts a shadow over a memorable day. Lewis Dunk is a very talented young defender. To make the grade he has to be very tough mentally and physically: his dad was a very strong defender with Whitehawk and Worthing etc. TBH it seems harsh to say he was trying to injure Sharp. Don't have a problem with the view that both Naylor and Dunk should have been sent off.

As a DRFC fan shouted at me across the fence at the final Goldstone game, "Shut up you southern poof it's a man's game!"

 

[Smithy24]

Dunk was my motm

Mine too

 

[perseus]

Collisions

My perception says:

The Haytor and Spurrs blatant fouls were at at a much higher impact collisions speed. There is only one explanation that Billy Sharp was carrying a bad injury (hernia ?) before the game.

 

[jcdenton08]

Hold on i did look at the replays and i did see the football league show which actually showed the tackle.
Now not once on the FBL show did they say that it was a shocking tackle and Could have been let alone should have been sent off. All they said was it is a big blow for Donny.

Furthermore i Do Not recall any of your fans chanting an OFF OFF OFF at all to the tackle. Where as, now you have found out that he maybe out for a long time time this season you ALL seem to believe that it was the worst tackle there has ever been.

I'm an Albion fan.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

My perception says:

The Haytor and Spurrs blatant fouls were at at a much higher impact collisions speed. There is only one explanation that Billy Sharp was carrying a bad injury (hernia ?) before the game.

Sharp's ANKLE was inherently weak, because he was carrying a HERNIA?

My perception is that you are a strange individual.

 

[Rugrat]

The worst tackle of the game from my view was Naylor (I incorrectly called it Coppinger in another thread) on Barnes - horrid and all credit to Barnes for getting up - particularly as a few Argyle mates told me when we signed that he was a bit of a drama queen so well done that man

Feel for Dunk and Sharp and Donny. Dunk is a good young pro and he'll be concerned about his lunge and worried for Sharp too. I hope it's not as bad as feared but it is part and parcel of the physical game and defo no intent

I've said a lot about KLL - wasn't a good display at all, he's a huge talent and can turn a game but I think the occasion got to him and he was playing the crowd and ref too much

But for both sides and maybe the ref (and I'm not condoning his crap performance) the whole occassion was so charged that any expectation of normality may have been unrealistic