Question about players who are "bruise but playing"

[FrogMan]

Guys, what's your take on a player with the health status "bruise but playin", coming back from an injury??

Do you play him or do you wait for him to clear completely?

FM

[daedalus]

How bad do you need him? :)

[FrogMan]

oh, I don't really need him :) He just got to "bruised" status and would be available for tomorrow's friendly against Bees...

I was just asking to get a general feeling of what people think about it. Also to see if anybody had some very bad experience of playing a "bruised" player and then lost him to a 7 weeks injury...

FM

[daedalus]

I know that is suppose to be the possibility but I haven't seen any reference to occurance around here. Professor58 said his came in about 1/2-star under norm. Seemed about the same with mine. I guess the one positive about playing him in tomorrow's friendly would be that he'd get training this week.

[lytic]

I always play them in competition games... and I'll play them in friendlies if they are on the "B" squad.

***EDIT*** or if they need training from playing in that friendly.

[Airhog]

I think it can take a bit longer to heal if you play them, but I dont have any numbers to back it up.

[lytic]

I don't think so... I think it's all relative to age and doctor #s...

[vex]

The only thing being bruised but not injured effects is that if they are injured while bruised, they are more prone to a serious injury.

They have the same chance of being injured as a healthy player though.

Play em.

[lytic]

^^^ what he said.