Fuller shoulder injury recurred at Bolton

[Hortical]

Potters chief eyes injury solution

Stoke City, 09:40, October 18, 2010
Tony Pulis has revealed that Stoke striker Ricardo Fuller's shoulder problem recurred at Bolton and he now aims to fix it properly.



The Potters chief watched as the Jamaican international was taken straight to hospital after hurting his right shoulder following an awkward fall in the second half of the 2-1 defeat against Bolton at the Reebok Stadium on Saturday. And, having seen Fuller fall victim to a similar injury just three weeks ago at Newcastle, Pulis is determined to find a long-term solution to prevent it happening again.
"He's the ace in the pack for us," Pulis told the Sentinel. "If you play him for 30 or 40 minutes, he will do two or three things, either create or score.
"He's fallen heavily on the elbow and so the shoulder has probably popped out again.
"The problem is, when they go away on international duty they are taken away from what we do on strengthening work, like Ric on his shoulder."
Pulis will hope Fuller recovers as quickly as he did following the injury he picked up at St James' Park so he can be in contention for the visit of Manchester United next weekend.
Meanwhile, Dean Whitehead will miss the United game on Sunday after picking up his fifth yellow card of the season at Bolton which means he will serve an automatic one-match ban.

[Don1]

Potters chief eyes injury solution

Stoke City, 09:40, October 18, 2010
Tony Pulis has revealed that Stoke striker Ricardo Fuller's shoulder problem recurred at Bolton and he now aims to fix it properly.



The Potters chief watched as the Jamaican international was taken straight to hospital after hurting his right shoulder following an awkward fall in the second half of the 2-1 defeat against Bolton at the Reebok Stadium on Saturday. And, having seen Fuller fall victim to a similar injury just three weeks ago at Newcastle, Pulis is determined to find a long-term solution to prevent it happening again.
"He's the ace in the pack for us," Pulis told the Sentinel. "If you play him for 30 or 40 minutes, he will do two or three things, either create or score.
"He's fallen heavily on the elbow and so the shoulder has probably popped out again.
"The problem is, when they go away on international duty they are taken away from what we do on strengthening work, like Ric on his shoulder."
Pulis will hope Fuller recovers as quickly as he did following the injury he picked up at St James' Park so he can be in contention for the visit of Manchester United next weekend.
Meanwhile, Dean Whitehead will miss the United game on Sunday after picking up his fifth yellow card of the season at Bolton which means he will serve an automatic one-match ban.

As I said it was absolutely ridiculous to invite Fuller to play against Trinidad.

The guy is not going to play in the Digicel Cup and was also coming off an injury....and did not need the int'l game for ANY good purpose...maybe a Jamaican holiday

Now some other player was denied the chance of playing time and further gelling of that squad impacted negatively...and Fuller was denied follow up rehab work

Insanity personified

[Hortical]

Mi sey the same ting before, it was not a wise decision to invite Fuller when he is coming off a recent injury.

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"He's the ace in the pack for us," Pulis told the Sentinel. "If you play him for 30 or 40 minutes, he will do two or three things, either create or score."

I guess this answers why Pulis won't start him. I wonder if it has anything to do with his fitness level.....which I doubt.

[USAF]

NICE TRY TONY!!!...and you guys don't buy into his BS.

Don't blame Fuller's playing for Jamaica on this injury. If Stoke had properly treated him, and did the necessary rehab, tests and scans, they would have known that the shoulder wasn't properly healed. How many times have Jamaican players been held back because of injury??? Do you think this would have happened if Fuller was an "ace" player for ManU, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea or any top teir team???

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he is good enough to start, but pulis don't confident anybody else scoring,
from what i can see, pulis try him best to hold out for 60 mins then when side tink dem have stoke number, ace a spade inna dem face.

I don't agree wid dis tactic, this tactic is negative, and will affect the strikers goal performance, and Pulis should tek what him can get while the going is good, when baller in form mek dem play, better full 90 an injured more than 30-40 minutes, yuh probably might win more games starting the striker