Rangers Football Club 0 Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 RANGERS will make a further assessment of Andy Littleâ??s foot before determining whether he requires more time on the sidelines to get over the injury. The striker recently spent a month out of the team with a hairline fracture which came to light when he was on international duty. Although he returned to action against Queenâ??s Park on October 20, he took a knock in the same area during the League Cup defeat to Inverness at the end of last month. While Little was able to complete the 90 minutes against Alloa three days later, he had to be substituted in the second half of yesterdayâ??s game against Peterhead. Having been replaced by Kal Naismith during the 2-0 Third Division victory, he headed straight up the tunnel with club doctor Paul Jackson. Little was consequently withdrawn from Northern Irelandâ??s squad for their midweek World Cup qualifier with Azerbaijan last night. He will now spend this week getting treatment at Murray Park as Gersâ?? medical staff come to a conclusion on exactly what course of action is required. It remains to be seen if the 23-year-old will be in right condition to take on East Stirlingshire this coming Saturday at Ochilview. But if it turns out he is unable to feature, that will make an already troublesome injury situation even more complicated for manager Ally McCoist. Forwards Kevin Kyle, Francisco Sandaza, David Templeton and Kane Hemmings all sat out yesterdayâ??s game at Ibrox. And with Emilson Cribari and Ross Perry both injured too, captain Lee McCulloch had to drop from attack and help out in central defence next to Chris Hegarty. Options at the back are already limited given reserves Luca Gasparotto and Darren Cole were also ruled out this weekend due to fitness problems of their own. That means McCulloch may have to continue playing there for the foreseeable future, thus weakening the front line further if Little does have to spend more time in the treatment room. Read more on the official site... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 I hope Andy Little gets the proper treatment and recovery time. He shouldn't be playing games if he still has an injury problem. Get well Andy. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza_8 233 Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 A Rangers trait - hurry players back from injury only to make matter worse. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyk 158 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 he was saying before this game on twitter he was fully fit, is he lying? I'm sure if he wasn't fully fit he wouldn't have said that or wouldn't have been happy to play. get well soon Andy. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 He probably felt fit but had a recurrence of pain during the game. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 he was saying before this game on twitter he was fully fit, is he lying? I'm sure if he wasn't fully fit he wouldn't have said that or wouldn't have been happy to play. It shouldn't be up to the players themselves to decide whether they're fit or not though, it should be up to our doctors and physios and I'm sure it is, which begs the question as to why they keep allowing players to come back from injury before they're fully healed and fully fit. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyk 158 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 It shouldn't be up to the players themselves to decide whether they're fit or not though, it should be up to our doctors and physios and I'm sure it is, which begs the question as to why they keep allowing players to come back from injury before they're fully healed and fully fit. I agree to some extent Zappa, but only the player truly knows how he feels better than any doctor. The report says he took a knock on the same area which was just probably unlucky more than anything. If anything the doctors keep them out for bugger all these days, players are to soft 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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