Tough for the kid - I am sure he will get an extension - be lucky to get more games in by the end of the year but does look like he has something to work with as looking at the highlights is very hungry. Let’s see how we go - he could get back in time for unexpected debut.
Some one send a preist to the club to banish this evil injury cloud that’s been above the club for years
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You ■■■■■■■ what
Why won’t he? Merrett did.
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No wonder our VFL side is rubbish. Kick 4 and you’re guaranteed a long term injury.
This ■■■■■■■ sucks, you’d think he would have easily gotten a game. Really feel for the bloke.
Supporting this club is slowly killing me.
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Only thing though is that I recall from when my son did a syndesmosis they said any weight on the ankle could worsen the injury. The syndesmosis is the combination of ligaments (anterior and posterior) holding the tib and fib together, along with all the membrane/sinew between the bones (interosseous I think that stuff is called). Once you have significant damage, weight bearing causes the bones to split (they measure % increase in the gap at a certain point, to decide how bad the injury is and whether you need surgery). When it splits the bones enough, they kind of slide off the flattish bits of the bone underneath (Talus I think?). And then with that displacement they want to split even more. (The talus has flat bits but is overall a kind of wedge beneath the tib-fib). So as it was explained to me, walking on a significant syndesmosis (especially with any dorsiflexion) is a recipe for making it worse. Other than careful static weight bearing under MRi for the displacement test, they really don’t want any weight through it. They should probably have had him on crutches with strict instructions not to weight the ankle - not walking around testing it out post game, at least.
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You tape for eversion, not really for syndesmosis.
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Ide suggest club no abilty to know that at the time, unless that injury has symptom that separates it from other general ankle injuries that players get most weeks and thus should of been bubble wrapped straight up.
YOU FOOL!
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!
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He could have been anything.
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No need to. Reality’s got you covered.
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Mid season draftees can nominate their contract length, same as PSD. For mid season it’s usually either 6 or 18 months. I think I remember reading Saad nominated 18 months. If my memory is correct he already has a contract for next year.
Richmond defender Jacob Blight, Western Bulldogs forward Kelsey Rypstra, Carlton midfielder Cooper Lord, Melbourne forward Luker Kentfield, Essendon speedster Saad El-Hawli and Sydney youngster Tom Hanily all nominated on six-month deals.
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Hard to muster up any energy to care when you expect things like this
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I’m just gonna pretend he never existed.
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Ffs.
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It’s the Jason winderlich and to a lesser extent orazio fantasia curse still haunting Essendon. Play and absolute cracker of a game with multiple goals, then get injured late in the game, not seen again for half the season.
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Figures.
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Hunter just had to go one better, didn’t he?
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