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Christian Petracca - Season Ending Knee Injury


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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:02, Red and Bluebeard said:

Well said, OD. We all feel for the poor kid, as it must be a shattering experience. But as a club, we say that injuries happen, they are never good, but they are part of football. Didn't one of the filth's prize recruits do something similar last year? No one wants it to happen, but it does, unfortunately. So after a collective cry of "Oh #@$#!", we move on ....

And that prize recruit, Freeman, has been tearing up the track during this pre-season.

It's well summed up R&B, and puts things into perspective.

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:06, rpfc said:

Yes, I find myself a bit callous about it; "he wouldn't have been much use this year so if it had to happen, better to do it now."

ACLs aren't the end of the world they used to be.

Tell Morabito, Menzel, Rodan, etc that...

We can only hope that it's a one-off, and it doesn't bother him for the remainder of his career.

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Oh no - I just heard the news. My heart is breaking.

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can everyone telling people to 'calm down' just pi$$ off??? possibly our best recruit has done his ACL, one of the worst and hardest to recover from injuries you can do. We are allowed to be upset. if you are not upset, good on ya.

i could have taken a shoulder or an ankle but not a fricken ACL from our new dynamic midfielder forward. FFAAARRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKK!

cant we just have one high pick come in and be awesome? too much to ask?

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:09, billy2803 said:

Tell Morabito, Menzel, Rodan, etc that...

We can only hope that it's a one-off, and it doesn't bother him for the remainder of his career.

For those of us feeling a little dis-spirited, can someone post some names of players who've had ACL injuries and come back as if nothing ever happened?

One that I think comes to mind is Tony Liberatore, but I'm sure there are others.

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:14, DubDee said:

can everyone telling people to 'calm down' just [censored] off??? possibly our best recruit has done his ACL, one of the worst and hardest to recover from injuries you can do. We are allowed to be upset. if you are not upset, good on ya.

i could have taken a shoulder or an ankle but not a fricken ACL from our new dynamic midfielder forward. FFAAARRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKK!

cant we just have one high pick come in and be awesome? too much to ask?

Yep, the last player I'd want to do an ACL. I don't know of a player ever coming back better after an ACL.

I agree with you, this news is tragic and there is no watering it down for me either.

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:15, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

For those of us feeling a little dis-spirited, can someone post some names of players who've had ACL injuries and come back as if nothing ever happened?

One that I think comes to mind is Tony Liberatore, but I'm sure there are others.

Nick Malceski is one that comes to mind as well.

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  On 16/02/2015 at 03:55, old dee said:

Spot on Saty,

He is a kid that was probably not going to contribute much this year.

Life goes on, the sun will come up tomorrow.

We have all had a lot of disappointment the last decade so nothing new to get a little bit here.

There are 39 others on the list plus rookies.

Just proves to me you should go very easy on young draftees.

Spoken well OD. I almost detect a note of optimism in there. Hard to be optimistic about this but I agree, we should not have been expecting too much from the kid this year.

Imagine how hungry he will be when he comes back!

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:14, DubDee said:

can everyone telling people to 'calm down' just [censored] off??? possibly our best recruit has done his ACL, one of the worst and hardest to recover from injuries you can do. We are allowed to be upset. if you are not upset, good on ya.

i could have taken a shoulder or an ankle but not a fricken ACL from our new dynamic midfielder forward. FFAAARRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKK!

cant we just have one high pick come in and be awesome? too much to ask?

Seriously doubt I will take your advice DD

At this point we have little idea if he will be a champ or a chump.

Lots of supposed Champs end up Chumps.

Lets just wait and see before we step in front of the nearest train.

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:19, old dee said:

Seriously doubt I will take your advice DD

At this point we have little idea if he will be a champ or a chump.

Lots of supposed Champs end up Chumps.

Lets just wait and see before we step in front of the nearest train.

You are right, there is no evidence that this potential number 1 draft pick can play football. ill calm down and give it a few years to see if this injury ruined his career

thanks for the advice

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:18, The Reverend said:

Spoken well OD. I almost detect a note of optimism in there. Hard to be optimistic about this but I agree, we should not have been expecting too much from the kid this year.

Imagine how hungry he will be when he comes back!

I am optimistic we will do better than last year Rev.

Him being out does not change my opinion on our results.

I was hoping for a few reasonable games from him.

It won't now happen but hopefully a rookie or two will step up given the chance.

Onward and upward.

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:22, DubDee said:

You are right, there is no evidence that this potential number 1 draft pick can play football. ill calm down and give it a few years to see if this injury ruined his career

thanks for the advice are all disappointed but lets still look forward to 2015 there are plenty of others that should improve our results this year

DD we are are all disappointed.

But there are plenty of others who should improve our results this year.

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:15, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

For those of us feeling a little dis-spirited, can someone post some names of players who've had ACL injuries and come back as if nothing ever happened?

One that I think comes to mind is Tony Liberatore, but I'm sure there are others.

Robbie gray suffered a high impact ACL, doing a lot of other damage.... All australian

Archie Thompson was back within 6 months and is still lightning and agile

In saying that, in 2013 there were 8 reoccurrence of acl's

Having done mine twice, I've played 48/48 since the second reco and that was at 28. So an 18yr old with bulk like petracca should have no issues recovering and going on to play at 100%

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:14, DubDee said:

can everyone telling people to 'calm down' just [censored] off??? possibly our best recruit has done his ACL, one of the worst and hardest to recover from injuries you can do. We are allowed to be upset. if you are not upset, good on ya.

i could have taken a shoulder or an ankle but not a fricken ACL from our new dynamic midfielder forward. FFAAARRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKK!

cant we just have one high pick come in and be awesome? too much to ask?

I assume from that, you expected him to be there from Round 1 and dominate?

He is one player from a squad of over 40, yes from what I have seen at training, he could have come in early and been a really good players for us

But we have had too much expectation placed on young shoulders previously

Hopefully with the really good medical and fitness regime we have in place he can make a full recovery

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:07, Wiseblood said:

And that prize recruit, Freeman, has been tearing up the track during this pre-season.

It's well summed up R&B, and puts things into perspective.

Scharenberg was the one who did the knee 'Wise' and that was following on foot problems but you're right with Freeman, he missed last year with hammy related problems and seems to be killing it at training this year.

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:29, rjay said:

Scharenberg was the one who did the knee 'Wise' and that was following on foot problems but you're right with Freeman, he missed last year with hammy related problems and seems to be killing it at training this year.

Cheers rjay, I thought I might have got the injuries around the wrong way. Hammy related problems certainly isn't as bad as an ACL, but it does show that the young fellas have the capacity to come back strong. I'll be watching how Scharenberg fares this yeah with interest.

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:28, The Devil Inside said:

I assume from that, you expected him to be there from Round 1 and dominate?

He is one player from a squad of over 40, yes from what I have seen at training, he could have come in early and been a really good players for us

But we have had too much expectation placed on young shoulders previously

Hopefully with the really good medical and fitness regime we have in place he can make a full recovery

of course not. Im worried about his career. how many times do we see re-occurrances of ACLs? Anyway just wanted to be able to rant and have a sook without being told to calm down and look on the bright side

thats all

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Just heard...fmd....Bloody Norm !!!!

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Christian's football career has been seriously thrown into doubt with one of the most serious injuries any mid could get.

I hope the club has the right people around him for what will be a long, frustrating year. I don't know how I would deal with this injury and what the prognosis is.

Whether he can come back in 2016 and have the confidence in his body needed of a mid, is yet to be seen.

Good luck young fella.

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  On 16/02/2015 at 03:55, old dee said:

Spot on Saty,

He is a kid that was probably not going to contribute much this year.

Life goes on, the sun will come up tomorrow.

We have all had a lot of disappointment the last decade so nothing new to get a little bit here.

There are 39 others on the list plus rookies.

Just proves to me you should go very easy on young draftees.

Footy is what footy is and each year each clubs get season ending injuries.

Our problem is that we don't have enough talent to have any injuries.

My only one disagreement with the " he wouldn't play much or contribute this year" is that having a year off means he will come back next year with no experience at any senior level be it the MFC seniors or Casey. He is basically one year behind.

But like you, I am going to worry about who we have on the field not who isn't.

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:15, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

For those of us feeling a little dis-spirited, can someone post some names of players who've had ACL injuries and come back as if nothing ever happened?

One that I think comes to mind is Tony Liberatore, but I'm sure there are others.

Lenny Hayes, twice i believe

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  On 16/02/2015 at 04:35, nutbean said:

Footy is what footy is and each year each clubs get season ending injuries.

Our problem is that we don't have enough talent to have any injuries.

My only one disagreement with the " he wouldn't play much or contribute this year" is that having a year off means he will come back next year with no experience at any senior level be it the MFC seniors or Casey. He is basically one year behind.

But like you, I am going to worry about who we have on the field not who isn't.

We have done plenty of that the last decade nutbean me included.

And it did change one thing.

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