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Nelsen forced on to sidelines

Thu Jan 24 05:17PM by Jeremy

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Blackburn captain Ryan Nelsen faces a spell on the sidelines after suffering a recurrence of his niggling hamstring injury.

Nelsen has been struggling with the problem for the last few weeks and it was feared he might require an operation to correct the problem.

However, Blackburn are hopeful that a period of rest might sort out Nelsen's injury.

Rovers chairman John Williams confirmed that Nelsen does not need to go under the knife and that the New Zealand international will be out of action for a couple of weeks.

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I've been holding on to Nelsen as a cheap defender - a la his teamate Mokoena.  He was twice the price, but that was still under 3.  And I see that while 10% of you have the Mok, only 5% have Nelsen.  And now, like Mokoena, Nelsen will be out of the lineup for a few weeks.  So he's officially DNH (do no harm) and while he was okay over the last few weeks that he's been in my team, he's been a nightmare most of the season.  Combine Rovers' inability to keep clean sheets with his three penalites conceeded, one own-goal, two yellows and two reds... well, maybe it's for the best that he's out of the side.

Now I have to decide if I'm happy carrying two defenders for 5 (the price of one crappy defender!) with a guarunteed zero return, or if I want to spend some cash - from where in the team is the question - to bring in a defender or two with a chance of earning points. 

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    to us, he'll always be the captain of the Cup winning DCU side.

    Posted by: jspitzberg on Fri Jan 25 07:17PM | Report abuse