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I seem to remember Robert Harvey deliberately tearing his plantar fascia because of tightness. He had to jump off a table and use a particular landing pattern or sumthink.
That said - I do believe 'De Morton' translates as 'The Killer'. Not ideal, for a doctor.
We’ve had “The Weapon”, now we have “The Killer”! Just need to find out “The Room” and we’ll win Cluedo.
Quoted PostJust wondering what's going on with Kommer, watched Doc Reids weekly wrap on player progress and nothing was said about him. Is he back into full training?No. I would write him off for senior selection this year which is the last year of his contract. Difficult decision to be made here if he can’t get back to poaying VFL and making an impact.
Kommer is contracted for next year. Very lucky boy if he misses two years with injury.
Quoted PostThat said - I do believe 'De Morton' translates as 'The Killer'. Not ideal, for a doctor.We’ve had “The Weapon”, now we have “The Killer”! Just need to find out “The Room” and we’ll win Cluedo.
Does the recovery room count?
Phhht! C’mon … the “Room” is the drug dungeon of course.
Read in the paper that the “practice match” against Williamstown is at 5.30pm on Friday??? Yet the club website states open training in on at 2.30pm. Can anyone clarify and will the practice match be open.
Sort of excited if at 5.30 as it means I will be able to attend my first training ever!!!
Quoted PostThe injuries continue: this time it's DempseyCourtney Dempsey was an interested on-looker at today’s training session, forced to sit out after straining his plantar facia on Monday.
Club Doctor Brendan De Morton said the minor injury was a blessing in disguise.
“It’s coming along very well, Courtenay did it in Monday’s training session, but today he’s a lot better,” De Morton.
“Plantar facia is a long sheet of tendon found on the bottom of the foot, and because it’s a long sheet it usually doesn’t matter if you tear a bit of it, and often it actually takes a bit of tension out of the foot,” De Morton said.
Dr De Morton said the injury was not a major concern and he is confident Dempsey will be back training next week.
“He’ll be off his feet until Monday and then we’ll crank him up from there.”
“I’d be hopeful he’ll be into full training by mid next week.”
http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/2015-03-04/dempseys-set-back
Uh, who the hell is this De Morton bloke?
Dr Brendan de Morton MBBS, FRACGP, MSpMed, FASMF General Practitioner
Special Interests: Sports Medicine (Essendon AFL Football Club Senior Doctor and President of Sports Doctors Australia).
A little bit of his CV from 2006
- found http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Brendan-De%20Morton/50890794
Dr Brendan de Morton
Brendan is a sports doctor with a practice in Melbourne (Essendon).
His sports medicine experience includes AFL experience with 4 years as “assistant doctor” at Essendon (1991-1995) and 7 seasons as deputy and head doctor at Carlton (1999-2005) interspersed with service in the NBL (SE Melbourne Magic/Melbourne Titans (1997-2002), Australian U23 Basketball Team and Olympic and Commonwealth Games.
Brendan was the “medical face” of the “Blood Rules OK” video, widely distributed to sporting organisations in 2001.
At the Fiji Conference, Brendan presented the Joint Injection Workshop, Travelling with a Team Workshop, as well as involvement with the “Emergency on Field Medicine” workshop with other SDrA members.
Brendan is a Committee member of SDrA and a former SMA Victoria Council member.
Sports Doctors Australia - Committee
Williamstown ‘practice match’ is a complete closed session.
Quoted PostWilliamstown 'practice match' is a complete closed session.Thanks
its a practice session with match simulations
I think Brendan is the other guy with the pink tabard on, with Doctor Written on the back, who runs onto the field when Doc Reid is otherwise busy…
Quoted PostThat said - I do believe 'De Morton' translates as 'The Killer'. Not ideal, for a doctor.We’ve had “The Weapon”, now we have “The Killer”! Just need to find out “The Room” and we’ll win Cluedo.
Is it the drug dungeon?
Williamstown 'practice match' is a complete closed session.What are they trying to do to us fans, make us go to ■■■■■■ GWS instead?
Was disappointed. Have a friend that works for Williamstown and apparently not even the parents of players will be able to watch.
I’m sure there will be someone from Asada/afl lurking around too
Quoted PostWilliamstown 'practice match' is a complete closed session.What are they trying to do to us fans, make us go to ■■■■■■ GWS instead?
EDIT: sorry, I thought this was a reference to the actual VFL practice match we have against them next week, immediately prior to the GWS game. Dunno how we’re going to get a team up for that.
EDIT EDIT: I select quote rather than edit so many times, and don’t even notice till I’ve posted another un-erasable post. Argh.
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I know it is stated in this thread that the 5:30 session is ‘closed’, but has that info come from the club or is it just heresay? Would much prefer to watch the ‘best 22’ train than a captain’s run of EFC Lite.
Was disappointed. Have a friend that works for Williamstown and apparently not even the parents of players will be able to watch.I’m sure there will be someone from Asada/afl lurking around too
So pretty much everyone will be trying to talk to Williamstown early in the season for pointers against us.
Has next week’s practice match against Willy been cancelled, and this is the “replacement”? I can’t really see how we can get up a team for it.