#6 Joe Daniher - drank a beer

[WindsockBoy]

Great.

What is with this increasing use of the term ‘kick’ or ‘knock’ to the calf?!

Clearly it is a tear.

If it was a farking kick/knock you might have a corkie for a few days and that would be it.

It’s the first calf ever to be torn by a kick

When you get a calf tear, it actually feels like someone kicked you in the back of the leg ( at the moment the injury occurs). Immediately after that, you virtually cannot walk. Like you are anchored to the spot. It is extremely painful.
I experienced that in the first 5 minutes of a grand final due to lack of a proper warm up. I was ■■■■■■ with that as I sat on the sidelines.

I tore a calf a few years back and it also felt like a kick to the back of the leg.

The key differences are:

1. I didn’t get a kick to the back of the leg, it just felt like it.

2. I was mid 30s and fat.

You can’t tear someone’s calf by kicking them in the back of the leg. You can give them a contusion but it is highly unlikely that the muscle will suffer structural damage as a result of a blunt trauma. It is even more unlikely that you’d get a 4-6 week tear. Muscles don’t work like that.

Wot we thought Andrew.
Worsfold clarifies the situation in the Age report:

Essentially, Joey thought he had been kicked in the calf. Reported it as such, but it was actually a tear, which feels like a kick to the calf when it happens.

“…But Worsfold said Daniher may have been mistaken in how the injury occurred, as the sensation of straining his calf could have been similar to that of copping a kick to the leg during training…”

I still find it odd that a kid in his mid 20s, well hydrated and eating well, coming off a slow build up in a managed recovery program run by experts, would pop a calf.

I popped a calf when I ran 5km and then tried to play a basketball game when I was out of shape, 35, 95kgs, and full of greasy ■■■■ because I was hungover.

I find it odd that a calf was all you popped.
Mildly surprised you’re still around to post.

To put it another way, a young professional athlete risks a minor muscle injury. From your self assessment you were risking resuscitation.

[Bomb_Doe]

Spraying ping pong balls everywhere?

i put that into google trying to find a gif…um…not what i expected

there’s a very funny scene in Phoenix Nights

[Bacchusfox]

We do not have a “kick-off”, it is a bounce down !

[WindsockBoy]

By the start of the game, after I’ve had those pregame beers, it’s definitely time to kick off!
Which, given who’s umpiring, will probably be a ‘balls up’ rather than a ‘bounce down’.

[bombers4ever4]

Not funny for those who
Have a disability

[percebushby]

Never heard it called that. “Ball up” perhaps.

[percebushby]

Oh. My. Good. God !

Political correctness gone mad.

FYI — you don’t have to have a (permanent) disability to use a wheelchair.

[Bacchusfox]

I do agree that in general terms the umpire is known to ball up at the beginning of the game, but he actually bounces the ball down (at present at least), and I was making a meaningless response to “kick off”.

[Lance84]

Not funny for those who
Have a disability

The joke had nothing to do with anybody with a disability. It was about Joes groin being ■■■■■■. You’re the one making the wheelchair/disability link. You realise wheelchairs aren’t just for people with disability’s right? I’m always very sensitive to how these things might be interpreted but you’re just being an idiot.

[bombers4ever4]

Upon reflection it is understood your comment was meant to be tongue in cheek and not intended to offend, However the knee jerk response was because I know people who are wheelchair bound who do not appreciate “wheelchair jokes”. In hindsight yes agree it was an overreaction given the context- comment withdrawn.

[Lance84]

Upon reflection it is understood your comment was meant to be tongue in cheek and not intended to offend, However the knee jerk response was because I know people who are wheelchair bound who do not appreciate “wheelchair jokes”. In hindsight yes agree it was an overreaction given the context- comment withdrawn.

Thanks mate. Sorry i only got angry because i wouldn’t make a joke like you implied. All good.

[andrewb]

Great.

What is with this increasing use of the term ‘kick’ or ‘knock’ to the calf?!

Clearly it is a tear.

If it was a farking kick/knock you might have a corkie for a few days and that would be it.

It’s the first calf ever to be torn by a kick

When you get a calf tear, it actually feels like someone kicked you in the back of the leg ( at the moment the injury occurs). Immediately after that, you virtually cannot walk. Like you are anchored to the spot. It is extremely painful.
I experienced that in the first 5 minutes of a grand final due to lack of a proper warm up. I was ■■■■■■ with that as I sat on the sidelines.

I tore a calf a few years back and it also felt like a kick to the back of the leg.

The key differences are:

1. I didn’t get a kick to the back of the leg, it just felt like it.

2. I was mid 30s and fat.

You can’t tear someone’s calf by kicking them in the back of the leg. You can give them a contusion but it is highly unlikely that the muscle will suffer structural damage as a result of a blunt trauma. It is even more unlikely that you’d get a 4-6 week tear. Muscles don’t work like that.

Wot we thought Andrew.
Worsfold clarifies the situation in the Age report:

Essentially, Joey thought he had been kicked in the calf. Reported it as such, but it was actually a tear, which feels like a kick to the calf when it happens.

“…But Worsfold said Daniher may have been mistaken in how the injury occurred, as the sensation of straining his calf could have been similar to that of copping a kick to the leg during training…”

I still find it odd that a kid in his mid 20s, well hydrated and eating well, coming off a slow build up in a managed recovery program run by experts, would pop a calf.

I popped a calf when I ran 5km and then tried to play a basketball game when I was out of shape, 35, 95kgs, and full of greasy ■■■■ because I was hungover.

I find it odd that a calf was all you popped.
Mildly surprised you’re still around to post.

To put it another way, a young professional athlete risks a minor muscle injury. From your self assessment you were risking resuscitation.

Some truth in that

[Wanderlust]

I owe an apology here. I’ve been a big fan of Joey but I did think he was the source of confusion/congestion in our forward structure. Think I debated it with a few posters as well.

Clearly I was wrong, as we were equally (if not more) woeful than we were at the start of last year.

[premature_rookie_ele]

Upon reflection it is understood your comment was meant to be tongue in cheek and not intended to offend, However the knee jerk response was because I know people who are wheelchair bound who do not appreciate “wheelchair jokes”. In hindsight yes agree it was an overreaction given the context- comment withdrawn.

i was in a wheelchair for half of 2014, i attended a game at the g. jobe was sent off with the blood rule, some opposition pelican yells out “do you want a wheelchair watson, ya sook?” i replied with a “it’s ok, he can borrow mine”. got a good laugh form those surrounding and the oppo supporter felt like a bit of a clown.

cool.story.bro.

[sj_2150]

How many week joe daniher return?

[Wanderlust]

Has he had a further set back? Still 3-4 weeks away

[smooth]

That’s about right. It was listed as a 6-week calf injury initially…

[Preliminary_Point2]

4 weeks until the next presser

[mdso]

This poor bloke is Gumbleton Mark V.

[mitch56]

Joey should be OK for the finals in 2021