On 9/19/2022 at 2:13 PM, Dr. Gonzo said:

Regardless of the extent of the injury, once we were knocked out by Brisbane he should've been placed in cotton wool. Idiotic decision to let him keep playing/training for Casey.

That’s crap! Players love playing footy and that’s what they are trained to do. 

Has there been a definitive statement from the club about the injury?

mods need to change the thread title to read         “ Did Tmac re injure his foot?” 

2 hours ago, 58er said:

Yes they sure can but they have had a proud and long history and plenty of opportunities to perfect a Good Show.

No expense spared of course helps.

I see it as a Horses for Courses and we will be a republic in 20 or 50 or 100 years depending on our collective Will to create it. History is reducing their realms each decade or more like each century. 

Not on my mortal watch will we be a republic and I am quite happy to let UK be the traditional Monarchy that keeps the people happy in easier or tough times. Their Govt like ours had just had a change for the better (Leader) and we are in good hands with ScoMo and his malcontents safely deposed for what I expect is at least 2/3 terms of righteous thinking of what they want to mean!

The spoils of our VFL Cup are yet to unfold but some gems are likely when the dust settles from the quirky precocious  youth to potential AFL' ers of 2/3 years and Sam is he Jacko's replacement or do we need Brodie Grundy as well to cushion big Maxy? 

A better health fortune snd game plan for 2023 plus hunger from all will be a great tonic fir another very serious assault on another Flag. 

 

 

  

 

I almost agree with you.  We need both IMO of course that assumes the Weid wants to stay.

On 9/18/2022 at 2:56 PM, layzie said:

Maybe he was going to have surgery anyway to remove the metal?

 

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Calm down all.  My whispers are that the plate is about to be / has been removed, as planned. 
So, he may be seen in a moon boot - be warned. 

Edited September 22, 20223 yr by monoccular

19 minutes ago, monoccular said:

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Calm down all.  My whispers are that the plate is about to be / has been removed, as planned. 
So, he may be seen in a moon boot - be warned. 

but did he in fact re injure that foot? :-)

2 hours ago, Wells 11 said:

but did he in fact re injure that foot? :-)

Who knows?  Unless “the reinjury” bent the plate or screws I would doubt it would be removed at this stage had it actually been “reinjured” in the sense that the same place had fractured again. 
Webber?

Has anyone seen any thing on this? I cannot  find anything on it anywhere but here! 

On 9/22/2022 at 1:54 PM, monoccular said:

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Calm down all.  My whispers are that the plate is about to be / has been removed, as planned. 
So, he may be seen in a moon boot - be warned. 

Why does it have to be a whisper though. Can't the club just make a simple statement?

2 hours ago, Palace Dees said:

Why does it have to be a whisper though. Can't the club just make a simple statement?

after the 2018 ef the club supposedly had 11 (icr exact number) players sent for operations. we didn't find out about this for 6 months or more and even then with little detail.

so there is nothing unusual about this and because it is out of season player privacy probably comes into play

On 9/21/2022 at 7:08 AM, Demons11 said:

That’s crap! Players love playing footy and that’s what they are trained to do. 

It is but gee he was behind the 8 ball as it was to begin with.

51 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

after the 2018 ef the club supposedly had 11 (icr exact number) players sent for operations. we didn't find out about this for 6 months or more and even then with little detail.

so there is nothing unusual about this and because it is out of season player privacy probably comes into play

But it is ok to hang 2 coaches out to dry. Obviously their privacy doesn't matter.

36 minutes ago, layzie said:

It is but gee he was behind the 8 ball as it was to begin with.

Did you have an intimate knowledge of his progress?

3 hours ago, daisycutter said:

after the 2018 ef the club supposedly had 11 (icr exact number) players sent for operations. we didn't find out about this for 6 months or more and even then with little detail.

so there is nothing unusual about this and because it is out of season player privacy probably comes into play

I get that, but as far as we know McDonald missed a VFL GF by re-injuring a serious and known foot injury.  Or so we think. Did he or didn't he? It's hardly a privacy issue.

16 minutes ago, Palace Dees said:

I get that, but as far as we know McDonald missed a VFL GF by re-injuring a serious and known foot injury.  Or so we think. Did he or didn't he? It's hardly a privacy issue.

fair enough in mcdonalds case

i was just talking generally about players having ops post-season to clean up injuries they've been carrying and playing through

don't get me wrong, i'd love to get a good run-down from the club of all the players having post season ops, but it seems fairly common practice we only find out much later

On 9/21/2022 at 7:08 AM, Demons11 said:

That’s [censored]! Players love playing footy and that’s what they are trained to do. 

They are trained to win flags for the MFC. Once the MFC was knocked out of finals everything should have gone towards preparation for 2023. TMac came back way too early to try and play finals for MFC in 2022. Once that was done no need to keep persisting.

4 hours ago, Demons11 said:

Did you have an intimate knowledge of his progress?

Yeah. Lisfranc injury - extremly hard to come back from quickly and in most cases come back the same, metal plate in foot - very hard to run again fully within 12 weeks. 

It doesn't take an intimate knowledge Demons11. Some things are obvious.

5 hours ago, old dee said:

But it is ok to hang 2 coaches out to dry. Obviously their privacy doesn't matter.

False equivalence.

One is an investigative journalist reporting on a public interest story, the other is a club releasing medical information about players out of season (when it doesn't have an impact on this week's games).

9 minutes ago, deanox said:

False equivalence.

One is an investigative journalist reporting on a public interest story, the other is a club releasing medical information about players out of season (when it doesn't have an impact on this week's games).

He missed a Casey GF - it was in season for him. So the logic used here is say nothing about it before the GF and then you don't have to after because it's a privacy issue?!

No matter - we are just going around in circles. None of us really know and we're not going to be told. I, for one, will move on.

11 hours ago, daisycutter said:

fair enough in mcdonalds case

i was just talking generally about players having ops post-season to clean up injuries they've been carrying and playing through

don't get me wrong, i'd love to get a good run-down from the club of all the players having post season ops, but it seems fairly common practice we only find out much later

The off season still is important for recruiting Drafting players and delisting plus injury surgeries and rehabilitation.

It doesn't mean we should be deprived of information or updates on any matters.

we thrive on this info and it makes us look forward to next season do much more!! 

Exactly, they should think of us more.

11 hours ago, layzie said:

Yeah. Lisfranc injury - extremly hard to come back from quickly and in most cases come back the same, metal plate in foot - very hard to run again fully within 12 weeks. 

It doesn't take an intimate knowledge Demons11. Some things are obvious.

Some things are just obvious to someone who can read what a lisfranc injury is on google.  I’ll take the view of the Melbourne doctors and high performance team over you Dr. Google 

Tmac just posted a picture on Instagram of the plate and screws he had removed, without comment ready to go next year. Good signs people

Whoopie!!!

4 minutes ago, Bates Mate said:

Tmac just posted a picture on Instagram of the plate and screws he had removed, without comment ready to go next year. Good signs people

Thanks fr this. But could u clarify. was it a pic without comment and u saying the rest or was it a pic with his comment “ ready to go next year” ?