View Full Version : Gibbs' Injury and Implications
russ
10 Jan 2007, 06:13 PM
kingwho put this up on YA-thought it should be here too:
http://www.charlton-athletic.co.uk/newsview.ink?nid=30242
No Cory this summer or hell - maybe at all.Get well soon Cory.Hope you can play in the CCC next year.
I'm much less sanguine about our defense going forward.
Eleven Bravo
10 Jan 2007, 07:55 PM
hate to say it, but i wouldn't put my money on him making the WC 2010 team. hell, he'd be lucky to ever seriously play again.
lurking
10 Jan 2007, 08:03 PM
I always felt he was overated.
milkduds
10 Jan 2007, 08:07 PM
I always felt he was overated.
I disagree. I felt he was quality, and we were unfortunate not to have him for the World Cup.
Here's to a fast and full recovery.
Delta Blues
10 Jan 2007, 08:11 PM
The US needs to get to the point where sometimes cold, hard decisions are made. JOB should have NEVER been on the 2006 roster. You could argue a couple others too. Until this federation grows the nutsack to for lack of a better term destroy the lame horse we'll never grow into a viable top 10 national team. Past performance, contribution, heroics, etc. mean nothing. The international football world is too competitive to have "guaranteed spots." Spare me the Totti crap, he was actually 100% fit for the cup.
casoccerdad47
10 Jan 2007, 08:47 PM
hate to say it, but i wouldn't put my money on him making the WC 2010 team. hell, he'd be lucky to ever seriously play again.
Several NBA players, including Jason Kidd and Amare Stoudemire, have undergone this operation and returned to play effectively in the NBA. There was however, a fairly long rehab program required for Stoudemire.
Ghost
10 Jan 2007, 09:00 PM
I will count a Cory Gibbs return to form as a pleasant surprise. Get well, Cory.
IndividualEleven
11 Jan 2007, 01:47 AM
The athlete who doesn't return to high level of play after a long term knee injury lay off is the exception rather than the rule nowadays.
If our back line in the WC were Gibbs, Conrad, Onyewu, and Dolo we would not have gotten rocked by Czechia.
phills
11 Jan 2007, 12:27 PM
The US needs to get to the point where sometimes cold, hard decisions are made. JOB should have NEVER been on the 2006 roster. You could argue a couple others too. Until this federation grows the nutsack to for lack of a better term destroy the lame horse we'll never grow into a viable top 10 national team. Past performance, contribution, heroics, etc. mean nothing. The international football world is too competitive to have "guaranteed spots." Spare me the Totti crap, he was actually 100% fit for the cup.
I agree totally.. I felt that after the 2002 world cup arena just coasted through to the 2006. He did not really have competitive camps at all. He just had players in for practice players. Alot of the players from the 2002 and yeas right after knew they would be on the 2006 world cup team even if they had lousy years in between.
Adam Zebrowski
11 Jan 2007, 03:32 PM
JOB was a calculated gamble doomed to failure...
what talent was out there making the JOB slection a waste...
as to knees, look at the miami running back who tore multiple ligaments in his knee and is doing well at buffalo...
modern medicine can perform miracles....
gibbs is a solid player, but I suspect the numbers of other defenders will keep him off the squad...
if he recoevrs enough to make it, that means central defense is in good hands
dfb547490
11 Jan 2007, 03:41 PM
Gibbs would be awesome if he was ever healthy.
Delta Blues
11 Jan 2007, 07:40 PM
Let me just say I sincerely hope he makes a total recovery, which is very possible. I'll be rooting for him for sure.
IndividualEleven
12 Jan 2007, 10:57 AM
what talent was out there making the JOB slection a waste...
Not a direct answer but it would have been nice to have had Kyle Beckerman in a few camps.
RSwenson
12 Jan 2007, 12:12 PM
The athlete who doesn't return to high level of play after a long term knee injury lay off is the exception rather than the rule nowadays.
I, too, think he is quality... but cartilage damage (the articular cartilage, not the meniscus) is much trickier than ligament damage...
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QuakeAttack
12 Jan 2007, 01:03 PM
I always felt he was overated.
I would be a little nicer and say unproven. He has shown at times the ability to play at a high level, but with all of the injuries, he just has not played enough to say whether he can consistantly play at a high level and be relied upon in the future...
However, I have never been a huge fan of his. His ability to man mark is excellant, but I don't think that he was good enough as a defender to automatically include him in the US line-up.
CDM76
12 Jan 2007, 01:08 PM
I disagree. I felt he was quality, and we were unfortunate not to have him for the World Cup.
Here's to a fast and full recovery.Absolutely. Solid defender with speed and good tactical sense.
I think BA wanted to spring a 3 man back line on the Czechs of Pope, Gooch and Gibbs. When Gibbs went down BA couldn't let go of his 5 man midfield but lacked the size and speed to be comfortable with a 3 man defense. Hence we got a hybrid mess that couldn't defend or attack.
BTW - no source or facts to support this, just Good Old Fashioned BS Speculation.
Get well soon, Cory.
appoo
12 Jan 2007, 01:39 PM
you never fully recover from one micro-fracture surgery, let alone two. Just look at Amare Stoudamire.
ironduke2010
12 Jan 2007, 02:40 PM
you never fully recover from one micro-fracture surgery, let alone two. Just look at Amare Stoudamire.
well, in theory, you don't have to "fully recover" to be effective, and maybe even good. cory seems like a pretty smart player. i don't know if we'll see him in a world cup, but he could be instrumental in a promotion campaign.
eric_appleby
12 Jan 2007, 06:22 PM
It would be foolish to expect this guy to be a factor in the future.
Time to move on.
If a miracle happens, great for him. But let's not create a new JOB.
OWN(yewu)ED
12 Jan 2007, 09:25 PM
god i dont know what it is about US players stepping foot on Dutch soil, but we should put an end to it. Bone and muscular degeneration appear to take place as about a year or two after they play there! :(
Im really....really worried about Cory, thats a guy we may never see reach his full potential. Everyone knows how much he would have meant to our defense in Germany. I just have to hold out for hope though. IF he gets healthy, he WILL be the best defender in the CCCL. How much did Lescott fetch....5 mil? Gibbs is WAY better than him when healthy, and i guess the key words there being when healthy.... If he manages to get going though, the CCCL strikers arent even going to know what hit them.
But its time to start thinking of Onyewu's partner in crime right now. Its open as of right now it looks like. Bocanegra's had a heck of a EPL campaign this year I think he should be the breadwinner. Conrad should probably get his fair share of go-arounds a well. As well as Demerit, Califf (wont get many looks because of what league he's in....hes quality though), and......Fearrington?.....Thats an untapped source we should look into....