#5 Devon Smith

Benny40 · May 21, 2019, 1:06pm

Google doctored that. Understood enough to know this is a difficult surgery to get right and a long rehab. Really bad news.

SCarey · May 21, 2019, 1:11pm

“Elon Musk wants to send humans to Mars, and it could happen as soon as 2024.”

Hopefully his timeline isn’t as rubbery as it has been with his Teslas.

JohnRain · May 21, 2019, 1:17pm

40-100 years? I think you need to visit Rekall and have them change your memory implant.

mattyb · May 21, 2019, 7:19pm

Man after a day to think about out this is a real punch in the guts. For dev (top bloke) for us and for the team. Hope they come out and play for him this weekend. It’s what any good footy team would.

Let’s do it for dev. Someone contact the cheer squad, we’ll chant it into his mate stringers ear and it’ll set him off

Captain_Dreadnought · May 21, 2019, 9:21pm

Such a massive shame but people here on blitz have been mentioning his injury all year so he would of needed surgery at some point.

Get him cherry rope for next season and beyond.

In the meantime give more games to the likes or Francis, Redman, Langford, Parish and Laverde

samwoods · May 21, 2019, 9:46pm

I don’t think things are that bad.

Deckham · May 21, 2019, 10:02pm

I had a similar injury… same ligaments and a couple of other things. Took me 8 months to start running properly again, but that’s without the support of elite footy club resources.

goon_squad · May 22, 2019, 5:35am

Was it as bad for you as @hirc was suggesting?

stir_fried_ewok · May 22, 2019, 5:46am

There would be a lot less stress on a wonky knee if the match was played on Mars, so when Dev comes back we should petition the AFL and Elon to play a few matches in front of a Martian home crowd rather than playing in smog-central Shanghai.
Also, on Mars Joey could mark the ball at its highest point (ever), and we know he’d try.

Deckham · May 22, 2019, 6:30am

Yes - but I wasn’t a footballer with everything that goes with it. It was a sporting injury. I did the PCL, tore partial ACL, bucket-ripped the meniscus, and furrowed the underside of the patella. I was on crutches for about 3.5 months. My leg muscles atrophied substantially over 8 months or so. Took nearly two years to get that leg back to similar strength, but I never regained my running completely.

DonsForEver · May 22, 2019, 6:42am

Geebus! How the hell…?

premature_rookie_ele · May 22, 2019, 6:43am

croquet can be a brutal sport

ps. i shouldn’t jest, that is a farked up injury to sustain.

Deckham · May 22, 2019, 6:50am

Of all things - beach volleyball.
Yeah, I know.

Lance84 · May 22, 2019, 7:20am

Too many pina coladas before?

Kj_11 · May 22, 2019, 9:16am

Tripped over getting into his g-string maybe?

JohnRain · May 22, 2019, 9:20am

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Stressed_out · May 22, 2019, 9:24am

Deckham plays beach volleyball with Guelfi?

theDJR · May 22, 2019, 9:36am

Also, the umpires there are better.

Stressed_out · May 22, 2019, 10:02am

Sheedy begs to differ.

WanderingWolf · May 25, 2019, 12:34pm

Can anyone link Smith’s column in the HS?