2016/17 Squad Thread

[The Dunster]

So, Kokko is unlikely to play this weekend because he is missing match sharpress because of his injury.

His injury was to his jaw - and I believe he was still training. He could still partake in drills surely. Does anyone else find this weird.

No. A broken Jaw is one of the worst injuries you can have. You lose ,muscle, you lose weight, you lose fitness / conditioning... and so on.
By the time you can eat again you are a shadow of your former self and it takes twice as long again to get back to where you were - let alone what the time off does to your confidence.

On top of that it takes a long time before you feel right again especially if you have any nerve issues like tingling or your jaw locking and so on on.
Then you have issues wrt pain killers. Do you take them ? If you do how will your body react. When I broke my jaw I had constant headaches for months after it had all healed.

Not as time consuming as an ACL injury but much worse than a broken leg - in my experience anyway.