After making his first official return to an AFL field in 588 days, forward Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti will be on a modified training program after suffering quad soreness.
McPherson says McDonald-Tipungwuti will have his progress closely monitored throughout the week and will not be risked if he doesn’t adequately recover in time for Sunday.
“He pulled up sore from his first game back in a long time,” McPherson said.
“We’ll monitor his progress over the next couple of days and we’ll have more info later in the week to make a call.”
Don’t want to be a spoilsport but the fact that Tippa has a strain after 15 to 20 minutes in the last quarter shows how far he has to come fitness wise. To tell the truth he looks 5 to 10 keg’s need to still come off.
Probably needs to go back to the vfl to build up those game time minutes. Not sure guest appearances in the last quarter of games is going to help him. He looked absolutely buggered after that mark where he beat two Hawks opponents (amazing really. He seems to have lost none of the skills).
I see no reason why Tippa can’t spend the next 4-6 weeks playing in the VFL, Snelling and Guelfi are ready to go and Jake is fit. Walla can work on regaining more fitness and strength.
I personally think its pretty ■■■■ poor from the club to not be a little more transparent as to why an original 6-8 week injury is now listed as 2-3 months after its already been 6 weeks.
Its the same old secret keeping bullshit the clubs been doing for too long.
Be open with your members! We literally finance the club.