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F**K. :angry: Looks pretty serious. Most likely ankle...hope it's not a break.

 
Walking around in the rooms - according to SEN

said the same on Fox which is good news, hopefully he can come back in the 2nd half... Chip is injured too, if both miss next week we're all of a sudden struggling down back, with Garland, Rivers, Frawley out...

lets hope they both come up okay...

 

jaded!

Looked like it might have been a cork from the west coast guy coming the other way... I hope

jaded!

I know, doesn't he realise that his stupid courage is stuffing up my tracker!!! :lol:


Maybe a bad sprain? They were pulling down on the ankle as you do with a sprain or break on the stretcher? If it's a nasty sprain, I'd take that.... Just have to trade him out this week. :)

This guy knows no fear. Some of the contests he runs into are unbelievable. Fingers crossed its a bad corky but it really did not look good at all. Landed very awkwardly on his lower leg/ankle.

 

I'll cross my fingers and hope that Rivers doesn't - they'd probably sprain.

Poor bugger. At least all the reports so far have been that it's not as bad as it looked and might only be a relatively minor injury.

I'll cross my fingers and hope that Rivers doesn't - they'd probably sprain.

Poor bugger. At least all the reports so far have been that it's not as bad as it looked and might only be a relatively minor injury.

Lets hope so, otherwise if we were to be missing Rivers, Frawley and Garland all next week they'd need to look at including someone like Bell as the 3rd tall. Lets hope bad sprain and a possability to return next week.


Lets hope so, otherwise if we were to be missing Rivers, Frawley and Garland all next week they'd need to look at including someone like Bell as the 3rd tall. Lets hope bad sprain and a possability to return next week.

McNamara!

McNamara!

Ah yes I did forget, McNanara's about 189-190cm isn't he? Is he physically able to play tall, or not quiet there yet?

Ah yes I did forget, McNanara's about 189-190cm isn't he? Is he physically able to play tall, or not quiet there yet?

He's more a medium sized defender, and I'd say he'd replace Frawley in taking the best mid-sized forward.

Will be interesting to see if he gets a game, and if he does, how he'll play. Probably a perfect week for him to play, given the Dogs have a wide range of medium forwards.

He's more a medium sized defender, and I'd say he'd replace Frawley in taking the best mid-sized forward.

Will be interesting to see if he gets a game, and if he does, how he'll play. Probably a perfect week for him to play, given the Dogs have a wide range of medium forwards.

He seems the obvious replacement, coming off the back of a few good games for Casey so it wouldn't be like we are throwing him in at the deep end.

Poor old Riv! Geez this guy just can't take a break! He's just so damn courageous... :wub:

Fingers-crossed he's alright and doesn't miss a lot of football. Maybe a week off next week if its not too serious, IMO he was starting to look a bit tired. If its not a bad injury a week off wouldn't hurt. I just hope its not 4 or more weeks out!!!

A very good opportunity for McNamara to come in and show us what he's got. He was probably on the cusp of selection anyway, so it'll be a good test for him.

And one step closer to the Buthcer / Scully double! ;)


He's more a medium sized defender, and I'd say he'd replace Frawley in taking the best mid-sized forward.

Will be interesting to see if he gets a game, and if he does, how he'll play. Probably a perfect week for him to play, given the Dogs have a wide range of medium forwards.

That was my first thought too. With a few defenders out, this is a good time for McNamara to come in.

Soon as he went down, I thought of Jaded's tracker. I wanted to see 'double digits' (ie. 10+), hell, he didn't even get there..

My thoughts were McNamara too.

Soon as he went down, I thought of Jaded's tracker.

Oh me too......not sure what that says about us ;) !!!

And add me to the ever growing list of folk who think that this might be McNamara's time to debut.

Most likely ankle...hope it's not a break.

Does anyone know if it's the same ankle he did in the intra-club match during the preseason?

EDIT: DemonDave just confirmed yes it was the same ankle, the left one, in another thread. Cheers


Does anyone know if it's the same ankle he did in the intra-club match during the preseason?

EDIT: DemonDave just confirmed yes it was the same ankle, the left one, in another thread. Cheers

I couldn't see what the injury was until I studied the replay over & over again then I noticed an inoccuous clash of legs, oncoming players shin hit rivers inside right ankle just above the joint. This is what I believe the concern & conjecture of a possible broken leg was all about. He might be lucky.

Does anybody know how long RIVERS will be out, not too sure whether to trade him from my SuperCoach team?

Not sure how accurate it is but the AFL injury list has Rivers as only 1 week. Frawley listed as 2 weeks. Promising if true.

 
Not sure how accurate it is but the AFL injury list has Rivers as only 1 week. Frawley listed as 2 weeks. Promising if true.

You beauty if thats true.


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