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Nice news here in Cyprus. I said on a post ages ago his is a physical injury, made far worse by Rahic's lunatic fitness coach who made him train pre season when he wasn't ready. Jake in good spirits for many a week now. Will run his way back and then perhaps all the medical experts on here will shut up and accept their mentalist theories were wrong.

 

the club and medical staff have to abide by confidentiality law, they can’t disclose any medical records or medical information without player consent. if jake reeves doesn’t want his confidential medical records in the open and in the media then that’s his right and prerogative - people just need to get over their need to know everything about everything and accept it.

 

Fordy, just caught this in Spain. To paraphrase Donald Sutherland in Kelleys Heroes, "Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves.......say something righteous and hopeful for a change"
GB clearly has paid more attention to Jake than anyone else over the last 18 months. We've had 3 Managers, one German so called fitness coach and a know it all Chairman who all dumped Jake as far as I can see. The solution of Edin, as in all cases of failure was to simply sign another in the hope we could get promotion and the blown budget could be covered by Championship money. GB has clearly got a handle on things. I would suggest you drop the speculation on Jake and let those who are dealing, deal.

 

Yes, if we can get him free of injury and his head right, he should be a very good player for the 4th tier.

Good luck to him

 

Fordy can say what he wants, but the "bottler" has shown top man management skills with Reeves through this process. Top work by Gary.

 

Some comments on Reeves completely spin my head. There was one on the T&A that claimed he was obviously a “pot head” (fortunately now removed). Seriously, what the hell is wrong with people?!

We’ve had sufficient enough information to have an understanding that his situation isn’t as simple as just the injury. Done - for now what else do we need to know? Bowyer has clearly indicated his support in Reeves to hopefully get him back playing. Bravo to him. Let the lad continue his recovery and support him rather than victimise him.

I for one will be happy to see him back in our squad if he can regain the form he had at Wimbledon, and some of the games he played for us. Whilst he didn't put in back to back world beating performances, there were signs of decent player, very much so for league two level.

 

Reeves starts a league game.

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Great News.
Everyone involved in Jake's lengthy recovery deserves a huge pat on the back.
Our club has it's fair share of critic's and doesn't always cover it's self in glory stories but this news will be heartfelt by our supporters up and down the country.
Welcome back Jake missed but never forgotten.

 

FFS give up with the loan business. He's clearly not going anywhere.
He'll be on the bench for the cup game and probably the next league game and if he comes through those unscathed he'll be in contention for a starting place.
A fit central midfield of Cooke, Reeves and Pritchard would allow Bowyer to play his preferred 433 system and would boss this division.

 

Just my interpretation here... but i'm not sure the rehabilitation programme is for anything more than injury. A series of setbacks could simply mean on a physical level, his body not responding to the physio like hed hoped, or one problem leading to another.

If the rehabilitation is to be taken in the context of tackling a drug, alcohol or gambling habit, I'd be suprised but hope he can get sorted over the summer, whatever the issue is, as I think he has the ability to do it in L2

 

Here we go again every time Reeves name comes up, there is all kinds of speculation about ‘what is wrong with him’ All we need to know is that he is not available to play football. The club have been spot on as far as I am concerned, supporting our player back to full recovery if that is possible. I am pleased he is continuing his recovery through the summer.

He is one of our players, and we should be supporting him all the way.

 

I’m not necessarily after ‘awe inspiring’ signings, but let’s face it Port Vales reserve keeper, Accrington squad player, some tall lad from Sudbury combined with the shit from last year doesn’t fill me with confidence.

 

Tell him there's no rush, it's not like we're desperate for central midfielders or anything.

 

Brilliant post

Fans seem to forget that the same fair treatment that they would expect from their employers, applies to footballers as well

 

'Your mates are there, when you need them most'. .......... I hope the City players, old and new, will rally round and support Jake in any way they can. Let's get this new squad uniting and bonding from the off !!

 

Quite so Tolly, see today's T&A. I've posted on this before and tried to knock down those making out Jake had a mental issue but was ignored by those ITK.
I said then a simple if deep seated injury was made worse by Edin's lunatic fitness coach who made Jake do the hard stuff when he wasn't ready. Perhaps, like me, a few will actually look to welcome him back when the time is right and in proper BCFC style help him put the last 18 months or so behind him.

 

Could be depression.
My (Estonian) football league career was ended by two groin injuries. The first I had an operation and was out for around five months. Two games back, it tore again. Really depressed me and struggled to get motivated. Horrible injury as for a while you’ve got your leg stuck out in front of you and can’t do much (ask my Mrs!).
Hope he’s getting his head back together. I played a friendly game in October and my mind was constantly on the muscle tearing. Next morning I felt it was gonna ping any minute, so decided that was that.
Good luck to him on his comeback!

 

Best player on the park by a country mile, a class above.

 

Not for me. Another club won't have the same understanding of his physical or mental condition and won't care about his longer term rehabilitation. They'll simply see him as a player 'too good for their level' and they'll base their game around getting as much from as possible and they'll flog him.

He needs easing in. Building back up. 10-20 mins from the bench. 30 mins from the bench. 60 mins from the start. 75 mins, then a full game. Staggered over the next 6-8 weeks, then by the start of next year hopefully we have a fit and confident Reeves, ready to play a full part.

 

shouty shouty just doesn't really work anymore, especially at higher levels in of the game

Will say also massive respect to Reeves for even playing again as I personally had given up the ghost with him. I liked him as a player before that so if hekeeps up his performances like his comeback game then I honestly think he could be one of the players to be the difference between us getting say the autos or just the playoffs. A bit of creativity and the eye for a pass alongside his work rate is exactly what you need playing against the set up that teams usually have when they play us, which at times we've struggled to break down. As a quick aside from the highlights of that game some of the movement and passing was insanely good at the start from the whole team. Hate clichés but I do think he'll be like a new signing.