I presume it’s what they call a talar dome fracture.
When I did placement at the Circus school last year every second kid had them and they all happened doing tumbling/somersaults (iirc most common mechanism was coming up short on a backwards somersault).
In other words; as much about angle/direction of force as the amount.
With the surgery and dislocation I doubt he’d be fully weight bearing before 6-8 weeks in a best case scenario.
Any break or fracture to a load bearing bone is basically an automatic 2 months before it is fully healed (in a healthy, young person with no complications)
Ridley wasn’t taking intercept marks at VFL level. What makes people think he can turn on this part of his game at AFL level, on the back of an interrupted preseason? At the moment he is winning a very high proportion of his possessions on the outside and needs to develop his contested game.
There are a great many misinformed propagating the myth that Marty can’t put on weight. On the proviso that the club listed player stats are correct:
Marty is currently 191-cm tall and weighs 86-kilos. When Marty joined Essendon in late 2012 he was 186-cm tall and 70-kilos, That’s a 22.857 per cent increase in body weight over 5 years. Given that Marty’s only 23-years and 7 months old and hopefully has many years left playing footy, if he keeps up his current rate of weight gain he’ll weigh 115-kilos at age 29,. Which is about the same weight as most Blitzers.
Mathematicians may argue my percentages and projections, but the fact is - Marty has grown 5-centimetres and put on 16-kilos while he has been at Essendon. Go figure.
Good points. Furthermore, at his current rate of development he will also be 197cm (to go with the 115 kg) at age 29. This will make him very hard to match up on.
If he plays to the same age as Fletch, he will be a monster.
Decent indication of Marty’s qualities that he’s been at the VFL for all 3 games so far, including in the howling wind and rain at Willy last week, on crutches. In the rooms talking to the boys, helping and encouraging.