McNulty to play without kidney protector

[Tyrone Biggums]

There's an Aussie Rules footballer over here who had a similar injury to McNulty a few years back and nearly died.

He's back playing and doesnt wear a guard. And you're more likely to have it happen again in AR than in football.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Balls of steel the boy. To think his kidney had just exploded with a pop that could be heard from the stands and he insisted in walking off in case he was thought a woose. Makes you shudder just thinking about it. To come back without some kind of protection for his remaining kidney just about beggars belief. Total and utter respect for the lad and his decision, but I think he should reconsider. Football ISN'T more important than life and death. Doesn't even come close.

Genuine Albion legend already

PS. Any chance we could all arrange to wear black gloves on his first League game back as a mark of total and utter respect?

 

[Twinkle Toes]

PS. Any chance we could all arrange to wear black gloves on his first League game back as a mark of total and utter respect?

Top shout MR H!

Howsabout we do it with only 1 glove; & in a clenched-fist stylee (you know, a la The Slade & them cheeky Olympic bro's)? We can call it Mac Power..

 

[nevergoagain]

Saw him today in HHeath with his missus. Looked lean and fit and buying a hoover

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Saw him today in HHeath with his missus. Looked lean and fit and buying a hoover

I would do the hoovering love but my kidney hurts, you better do it just in case.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Saw him today in HHeath with his missus. Looked lean and fit and buying a hoover

Oh, I say! Did he have his kidney protector on perchance?

 

[nevergoagain]

I would do the hoovering love but my kidney hurts, you better do it just in case.

Was carrying the Hoover himself, bloody women. The guy is injured and you are fannying around with a handbag. Relationship going nowhere I tell ya.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Top shout MR H!

Howsabout we do it with only 1 glove; & in a clenched-fist stylee (you know, a la The Slade & them cheeky Olympic bro's)? We can call it Mac Power..

Quite.

 

[drew]

It's one in a million multiplied by one in a million - unless I'm mistaken, that's 1/1,000,000,000,000.

In other words, slightly more chance than some of the racing tips on here over the years.

Not true. They are the odds before he had the first accident. The odds surely remain a million to one for the second kidney. It's like throwing a dice. The odds of throwing two consecutive sixes is 11-1 but if you have already thrown one six, the odds of throwing the next are then only 5-1.

 

[edna krabappel]

I think you're all worrying unduly. McNulty- and every other player- is statistically far more likely to have his career ended by a challenge that breaks a leg than endure another injury like the one he suffered this season. More likely to get hit by a car on the way to the ground, and significantly more likely to be diagnosed with a life-threatening (but unrelated) disease like cancer. It's all about perception of risk, isn't it, and clearly McNulty has analysed that and considers that the odds are dramatically in his favour.

Peter Cech may still wear his head guard, but particularly as a goalkeeper, the chances of him getting whacked there are pretty high. The McNulty situation is entirely different.

If none of you had read this story, you wouldn't even be thinking about it when McNulty comes back into playing contention: as it is, the Argus has got you all in a fluster.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Quite.

The guy on the left is clearly a RACIST

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Attn. THPP: Russell's now on-board.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

The guy on the left is clearly a RACIST

His name is Peter Norman and he was a good man.

What is less known is that Norman, a white Australian, donned a badge on the podium in support of their cause, the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR). On the way out to the medal ceremony, Norman saw the badge being worn by Paul Hoffman, a white member of the US Rowing Team, and asked him if he could wear it.[citation needed] It was also Norman who suggested that Smith and Carlos share the black gloves used in their salute, after Carlos left his gloves in the Olympic Village.[5] This is the reason for Tommie Smith raising his right fist, while John Carlos raised his left. Asked about his support of Smith and Carlos' cause by the world's press, Norman said he opposed his country's government's White Australia policy.

He died a few years back and Both Smith and Carlos gave eulogies and were pallbearers at his funeral.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Does this make jimmy mac even more FLAIR??... I think it does!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Does this make jimmy mac even more FLAIR??... I think it does!

Indeed it does. Jimmy Mac is now OFFICIALLY The Flairest Of The Flair

 

[Nicky-Number-Nine]

I can see why he wouldn't want to wear it. It was a one in a million freak accident and surely won't happen again. However I do think that it would be worth wearing just to help mentally.

 

[Napper]

The one glove idea .... feel free to do this in H block ..only