Mbick out for the season

For those that follow our loan players they would’ve seen Micah Mbick take a really bad tackle during his first full game back for Colchester from his recent hip injury on Saturday.

I say tackle as it wasn’t even given as a foul as the ref played on following a high challenge from Newport County’s Cameron Evans’s

Colchester boss Danny Cowley described it as a “horrendous tackle. It looks a really, really bad one unfortunately.”

Well, it was bad and today the U’s said that Micah’s season is over and with that so is his loan. The good news is that he won’t require surgery and in conjunction with the Addicks medical team, they will “take a more conservative approach, with his knee placed in a brace for the next 10-12 weeks to see how it heals.” (more)

12 weeks takes Micah to the middle of June, so I suspect he will also miss the start of pre-season.

The 19-year has had a stand-out season for Colchester and scored 8 goals in 18 starts plus 2 assists. A terrible way to finish the season.

Gutted for the lad. Get better soon, Micah.