Yeah, same knee. Not great, huh?

All the more so because he must have fancied this to be his breakthrough year. Gutted for him.

season hasn,t even started and we're already a player down

The initial report was that he'd had a slight knock and was taken off as a precaution only. By the time of the forum he'd gone for a scan so things clearly progressed quite rapidly after the game.

Really bad news for the lad as this season would have offered great opportunities to break through. Must also be a concern that it's an injury to the same knee so soon after the other.

From a salary cap perspective, what does this mean? Can we de-register him and effectively take his salary (admittedly it won't be a huge amount) off the cap to use towards a new signing/s?

We don't need to de-register him AFAIK. If he doesn't play any first-team games his salary won't count against the cap.

Possibly.

Might be a case of removing him from the squad and drafting in someone else, maybe Williams or someone else.

so, recurring injuries to youngsters, and there still isn't anything wrong with our conditioning I guess?

terrible shame for the boy. Let's hope he makes a full recovery and gets back into the mix some time next year.

Really bad news hope he comes back stronger than ever.

Don't know about that but I believe it's now the 3rd time that a player has taken a knock during a game and then been sent back on later only to then be ruled out for a substantial period of time.

then we have a problem!

Also my initial thoughts...however the difficulty comes when you listen to the player, the player must be saying they are alright to go back on.

Bit silly in a friendly though, just as a precaution any-one taking a knock should have been taken off and kept off.