Mee still has part to play (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Mee still has part to play
10:00am Saturday 16th February 2013 in Sport
By Suzanne Geldard, Burnley FC reporter
SEAN Dyche is backing Ben Mee to still play a big part in Burnley’s season, even though the defender is not yet ready for his first team comeback.
The former Manchester City defender has been sidelined since the beginning of December with knee ligament damage sustained in the home derby with Blackburn Rovers.
Mee managed to complete the game, despite being on the end of a crunching challenge by Colin Kazim Richards, but the 23-year-old has not featured since.
Dyche had hoped to have welcomed him back to the squad by now, but Mee suffered a minor setback, lengthening the lay-off to four to six-weeks.
But with 15 games still to play this season, Dyche expects Mee to be back in time to make an impact, after insisting there is all to play for.
“The season’s still well alive, so that’s even more of a challenge to get back fit,” said Dyche.
“There are plenty of games to come. We’re hopeful it settles down quickly enough to get back to training again and back in contention because it’s been a frustrating one for him.
“He’s a very honest, forthright stand-up kind of guy and he’s feeling it. No player wants to be injured.
“You don’t want to sit and look at all four walls of a gym, it’s not as much fun as running around playing football.
“It’s a shame for him but he’s a very conscientious lad and he knows that it’s part of the nature of the job, as they all do.”
But Dyche said it was not possible to put a timeframe on Mee’s return.
“He’s not in full training yet so that’s normally a marker,” said the Burnley boss.
“In his case, because of the length of it it’s not going to be a case of coming into full training and playing after three days.
“It’s going to be a week’s training with the players then we’ll build up from there as regards a reserve game.
“He’s on the verge of joining in but isn’t there yet.”
And Dyche is anticipating an exciting battle for places when defender Mee is ready to make his comeback, particularly for the left back berth, where Northern Ireland international Danny Lafferty has impressed in Mee’s absence.
“The theory to any manager at any level will be if you’ve got a squad that are all fighting for places then that’s healthy, and that’s what we want,” he said.
“We want that fight for places and unfortunately we’ve had injuries and suspensions at varying times that have probably has allowed players to more or less be the first choice, whereas it’s better when they’re all vying.”
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Comments (26)
11:11am Sat 16 Feb 13
Jarrod Schulz Bearded Wonder says...
12:48pm Sat 16 Feb 13
Milks gone bad says...
12:52pm Sat 16 Feb 13
Jarrod Schulz Bearded Wonder says...
Oh the irony
3:32pm Sat 16 Feb 13
Chris P Bacon says...
4:56pm Sat 16 Feb 13
Jarrod Schulz Bearded Wonder says...
Time to tell everyone why you shave your legs pork boy.
5:50pm Sat 16 Feb 13
Chris P Bacon says...
1) Your posting times illustrate that you are a stranger to the working world
B) Your all-too-frequent name changes strongly indicate you are schizophrenic
4) You've switched sex several times and as this was pointed out, you throw baseless allegations at those who do the pointing.
D) Your obsession with the Burnley threads strongly link you with a liking for abuse, indicating a strong possibility you are masochistic.
7) If nothing else, you took the advice on poor literacy to heart and now appear on here dishing out admonishments on poor grammar yourself!
G) You are a humourless, bitter, petty-minded source of amusement and would provide an entire conference-worth of case-study for a gathering of psychologists and psychiatrists.
11) We hope you continue to provide our belly laughs as you are this forums' equivalent of the screamers on Jeremy Kyle or the hopelessly talentless blert on the X-Factor who thinks he's got something to contribute! We lap it up!
6:04pm Sat 16 Feb 13
Jarrod Schulz Bearded Wonder says...
And by the way Pork Boy I like your counting, is this some weird form of hexidecimal you've got going on? by the way, it should only go up to F?
1,B,4,D,7,G,11 my you dingle maggots certainly know how to use them extra digits I'm that impressed with your new number system I'm going to name it Base Crisp.. Is it the bible code? Are you sending me an encrypted message?
8:06pm Sat 16 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
8:10pm Sat 16 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
Oh, by the way, we've turned the corner.
9:14am Sun 17 Feb 13
Chris P Bacon says...
11:31am Sun 17 Feb 13
stevieclaret says...
1:25pm Sun 17 Feb 13
Dingle Dangle says...
2:39pm Sun 17 Feb 13
Jarrod Schulz Bearded Wonder says...
Unless of course your new number system is used in quantum physics i suggest you stick to being my smooth legged spell checker for which you, at least, possess the pins.
2:53pm Sun 17 Feb 13
Dingle Dangle says...
7:29pm Sun 17 Feb 13
stevieclaret says...
8:04pm Sun 17 Feb 13
Jarrod Schulz Bearded Wonder says...
The proof is not in the question, its in the lack of the answer. If I said to you, why do you shave your legs?, you would reply, are you a complete nutter what would I shave my legs for?
Crispy on the other hand avoids the question and gets so confused at doing so, he starts counting in gibberish, which any detective will tell you is his own mind trying to block out the undeniable proof.. In other words, he is trying to lie unto himself and failing. HE SHAVES HIS LEGS. Is this the act of a normal man? I can hear him hissing and fizzing from here. Then in order to compensate for feeling less manly, he comes on here and corrects everyones spelling and grammar. Makes him hard again.
He is a confused soul
Did you know he is an Everton supporter too. Thats even more bizarre isn't it?
10:47pm Sun 17 Feb 13
Dingle Dangle says...
11:20pm Sun 17 Feb 13
Jarrod Schulz Bearded Wonder says...
5:23pm Mon 18 Feb 13
Chris P Bacon says...
1) If I had a football, would that make me a footballer? So why does the possession of a bike make me a 'cyclist'?
2) There is no question 'why' regarding pro cyclists shaving their legs, it's widely known why except by the ignorant. If you can show that cyclists shave their legs 'to make them go faster; I will buy you a brand new Range Rover. When the fact is pointed out to you, I would like, but know you're not man enough to do so, you to provide an apology.
5( I have never shaved my legs in my life so why your prurient interest in it? We can but surmise. And making up lies proves your stupidity.
J) You hypocrite. You were on here last week correcting someone else's grammar because they'd missed an apostrophe pointing out that you were stupid.
10) I didn't even know that I myself was 'an Everton supporter'. That's come as a MAJOR shock to me, that has. It's certainly the first I've heard of it so THAT is what I'd regard as bizarre, you making up lies and then running with it like a small child with a sharp pair of scissors.
So there we are; not one of your assertions come within a TdF mountain-stage-milea
ge distance of anywhere near the truth.
We all await with baited breath at your next forage into your handbag of lies. Don't disappoint us now, Titley.
7) There is no 7
6:09pm Mon 18 Feb 13
Chico! says...
Bless x
6:35pm Mon 18 Feb 13
Chris P Bacon says...
7:33pm Mon 18 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
It is also improper to begin a sentence with 'And'. It is allowed these days but is still looked at as poor grammar.
7:53pm Mon 18 Feb 13
Chris P Bacon says...
And you should have written 'as in your first sentence', so you dropped a bit of a cloggy one there.
10:12pm Mon 18 Feb 13
Chico! says...
Have you any idea how much of bell you look when you try to act hard on the Internet? You soppy get!
I have no idea what you're prattling on about so please free to reveal where you "called me out" you cretinous tryhard.
Cowardly plastic suits you to a tee Crispin, as when every you get asked what team you support you chuck a wobbler and disappear, or even better start stamping your feet in a tantrum claiming "it's none of your business"
On the footy pages.
Hilarious.
So either your either ashamed of your team, or your too scared to reveal it because you know you can't take the ripping you'll get.
As your banter is so weak it's practically homeopathic, it's probably the latter.
Chin up plastic, you can always come back on here and defend your little Dingle pals from the nasty Rovers fans being mean to them.
Bless x
8:47am Tue 19 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
Try talking about football if you can as this is a football forum.
9:07am Tue 19 Feb 13
Chico! says...
On re-reading I've spotted that there's a few typos in this, no doubt cowardly Crispin will get himself worked up into a lather over them, like the jumped up little poindexter he is.
The sanctimonious pedant.