9 minutes ago, gOLLy said:

Doctors missed a bone growing out of the crack in is heel... 

BIG miss and has cost him the season

What does this actually mean? I assume the crack you are referring to is in the bone which makes up the heel. So is it a bit of bone growing in the wrong place?

By the end of this season he will have played 14 games out of the past 49 (plus any finals we play). Perhaps he stays because we have too many others to delist, but he is teetering on the precipice.

He'll also be 26 by the start of next season - that's not particularly old, but at some point you have to weigh up the value of putting games into an injury prone fringe player versus giving them to a young draftee.

37 minutes ago, gOLLy said:

Doctors missed a bone growing out of the crack in is heel... 

BIG miss and has cost him the season

Damn, should have sent him to the Richmond doctors....

seriously what is it with our foot injuries and poor diagnosis??

41 minutes ago, gOLLy said:

Doctors missed a bone growing out of the crack in is heel... 

BIG miss and has cost him the season

i'll say. big miss indeed. should've gone to the richmond doctor 

Edited June 6, 20178 yr by daisycutter
jnr beat me to it

27 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

i'll say. big miss indeed. should've gone to the richmond doctor 

yes he was a great point of difference being a big bodied midfielder. As Commetti once said about Vanders, He doesn't do anything great, but does everything well.

 

He is worth persisting with if we think he won't turn into a trengove situation and lose his pace.

13 minutes ago, Bay Riffin said:

yes he was a great point of difference being a big bodied midfielder. As Commetti once said about Vanders, He doesn't do anything great, but does everything well.

 

He is worth persisting with if we think he won't turn into a trengove situation and lose his pace.

yes, i like vanders and i don't think we have seen his best. hope his recovery goes well and he gets a full preason and injury free 2018

2 hours ago, gOLLy said:

Doctors missed a bone growing out of the crack in is heel... 

BIG miss and has cost him the season

get better doctors !! 

Been greatly missed this season.Get well soon.

5 hours ago, beelzebub said:

get better doctors !! 

Nice combination pun and ambiguity. Either you want us to get doctors who can perform at a higher standard or you believe we have unwell doctors...which is kind of funny, yet disturbing (that you care) at the same time. 

Edited June 7, 20178 yr by La Dee-vina Comedia

10 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

What does this actually mean? I assume the crack you are referring to is in the bone which makes up the heel. So is it a bit of bone growing in the wrong place?

Correct... If the doctors picked it up earlier they could have operated earlier and not cost him the season.

12 hours ago, gOLLy said:

Doctors missed a bone growing out of the crack in is heel... 

BIG miss and has cost him the season

Do you mean a calcaneal spur, or something related to a fracture?

IF that is the case here is a link.  https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/heel-spur

It seems that initial treatment is conservative i.e. rest which has been done.  Surgery (assuming that is what is happening) seems to be reserved for when conservative treatment fails.

Edited June 7, 20178 yr by monoccular