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MCL Injury to Max Gawn

Colm
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6 minutes ago, Boots and all said:

I just hope Goody is scouring the records for examples where teams lose their star player, but win against the odds. 

Richmond lost Alex Rance to an ACL in round one 2019 and won the premiership 

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    I’m gonna remain confident that he’s avoided a worst case scenario.  There’s not enough media noise for me to think otherwise - the media always seems to get a leak or a tip on a serious injury to a star.  

    Max’s injury has been overshadowed by the power outage, but there’s still not enough noise for me to think it’s worse that a medial (which is still pretty bad).

    Bring on Schache for 6 - 8!

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    6 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

    I’m gonna remain confident that he’s avoided a worst case scenario.  There’s not enough media noise for me to think otherwise - the media always seems to get a leak or a tip on a serious injury to a star.  

    Max’s injury has been overshadowed by the power outage, but there’s still not enough noise for me to think it’s worse that a medial (which is still pretty bad).

    Bring on Schache for 6 - 8!

    Spoke too soon… his test was inconclusive 

    https://articles.listnr.com/triple-m/dead-set-legends-melbourne/jay-clarks-update-on-max-gawns-knee-injury/

     

    WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?… @Webber??

     

     

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    39 minutes ago, Deebymistake said:

    Maxy is going to be out for a while, whatever the diagnosis.  I know the team is bigger than the individual.  But Maxy is huge.  HUGE.  This team needs to dig deep and somehow find a way to move forward.  Coaches, psychologists et al get onto this asap!  Us fans can keep grieving hard but the team can't afford to.  

    As Petracca said in the post game interview (talking about the last 12 minutes) words to the effect ‘we had nothing to lose, didn’t give an eff, took on the game’

    That is the formula for 2023 (unfortunately the Ferals are very good at it). The team no matter who is playing going forward, need to play like that, take the game on, play fast footy, back themselves in.

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    Typo

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    10 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    Spoke too soon… his test was inconclusive 

    https://articles.listnr.com/triple-m/dead-set-legends-melbourne/jay-clarks-update-on-max-gawns-knee-injury/

     

    WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?… @Webber??

     

     

    This isn’t new information. The is referring to test they did straight away that was inconclusive.

    It also mentions he’ll have tests this afternoon. I believe the flight was at 10, and Max would have been keen to come home given his family situation.

    Dont expect to hear anything until later tonight.

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    Reading the posts in the last 2 pages gave me the impression the worst was confirmed. 

    Initial tests inconclusive. Scans due this afternoon. Can the chicken lickens please calm down until then

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    1 minute ago, BDA said:

    Reading the posts in the last 2 pages gave me the impression the worst was confirmed. 

    Initial tests inconclusive. Scans due this afternoon. Can the chicken lickens please calm down until then

    Colours have been lowered here in the last 24.

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    2 minutes ago, layzie said:

    Colours have been lowered here in the last 24.

    I really don’t understand why it’s not ok for us to be incredibly worried and upset that our captain and superstar might have done a third ACL at age 31. 
    Nobody is saying they know one way or another, but it’s totally normal to anxiously discuss the worst case scenario. 
    I think it’s very unfair to judge people for how they want to handle this pretty crappy situation. 
     

    Everyone here is hoping for the best. 

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    Life without Max Gawn was going to happen at some point. 

    The narrative was we targeted Grundy for a ruck duo but the reality is we got him for this exact scenario.

    If it was 2021 or 2022 I'd be pretty devastated for Max AND the team but we literally have the second best ruckman in the league to fill the spot. 

    Rough for Max for whatever the outcome but we are very lucky to have a ready made ruckman to step in. 

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    15 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    Spoke too soon… his test was inconclusive 

    https://articles.listnr.com/triple-m/dead-set-legends-melbourne/jay-clarks-update-on-max-gawns-knee-injury/

     

    WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?… @Webber??

     

     

    I don’t like this game Jaded, but inconclusive means they didn’t get a solid end-feel on his Lachman’s test. If this is me in my rooms, I expect the MRI to show ACL rupture, with confidence. Depends on the quality of the tester to a large degree. 

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    3 minutes ago, praha said:

    Life without Max Gawn was going to happen at some point. 

    The narrative was we targeted Grundy for a ruck duo but the reality is we got him for this exact scenario.

    If it was 2021 or 2022 I'd be pretty devastated for Max AND the team but we literally have the second best ruckman in the league to fill the spot. 

    Rough for Max for whatever the outcome but we are very lucky to have a ready made ruckman to step in. 

    Um did you see Grundy’s game last night? He is NOT the second best ruckman in the league anymore… was very ordinary. One mark in two games is not enough 

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    3 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    I really don’t understand why it’s not ok for us to be incredibly worried and upset that our captain and superstar might have done a third ACL at age 31. 
    Nobody is saying they know one way or another, but it’s totally normal to anxiously discuss the worst case scenario. 
    I think it’s very unfair to judge people for how they want to handle this pretty crappy situation. 
     

    Everyone here is hoping for the best. 

    Because some seem to be literally having a public anxiety attack. No amount of worrying about it will change anything in the next 24 hours.

    We will find out when we find out. Take a deep breath. Go for a walk. Pat a dog. No one died. The sun came up again this morning, and Geelong still got beaten twice in a row. It’s never as bad as it looks.

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    Calm the farm folks.

    Severe bruising from hyper extension.... that's it.

    Two weeks tops 👍🏻

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    Just now, The heart beats true said:

    Because some seem to be literally having a public anxiety attack. No amount of worrying about it will change anything in the next 24 hours.

    We will find out when we find out. Take a deep breath. Go for a walk. Pat a dog. No one died. The sun came up again this morning, and Geelong still got beaten twice in a row. It’s never as bad as it looks.

    We can all do what we want to do in this scenario. You’re more than welcome to not read this thread

    Also my dog was very happy with his walk today thanks 

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    57 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    I’m guessing there’s an all-time record of refreshing going on here. 

    Restricting my manual refresh rate to one every 60 seconds. Can someone write a macro for me please?

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    10 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    I really don’t understand why it’s not ok for us to be incredibly worried and upset that our captain and superstar might have done a third ACL at age 31. 
    Nobody is saying they know one way or another, but it’s totally normal to anxiously discuss the worst case scenario. 
    I think it’s very unfair to judge people for how they want to handle this pretty crappy situation. 
     

    Everyone here is hoping for the best. 

    It's ok to be concerned. we all are. but there's no point torturing ourselves until the results of the scans are confirmed

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    9 minutes ago, Demon Dynasty said:

    Calm the farm folks.

    Severe bruising from hyper extension.... that's it.

    Two weeks tops 👍🏻

    I took you seriously for a moment and was elated... then my brain kicked in 😂

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    46 minutes ago, Satan said:

    Surely they have scanning machines in Brisbane 

    Mate - they don't even have electricity.

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    1 minute ago, Demon Jim said:

    Have heard unconfirmed rumour of 6-8 weeks from an apparent close source. Hope its true I'd take that.

    I'd be more hopeful if the injury was given a name

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    3 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    I really don’t understand why it’s not ok for us to be incredibly worried and upset that our captain and superstar might have done a third ACL at age 31. 
    Nobody is saying they know one way or another, but it’s totally normal to anxiously discuss the worst case scenario. 
    I think it’s very unfair to judge people for how they want to handle this pretty crappy situation. 
     

    Everyone here is hoping for the best. 

    Not saying that Jaded. Its been a bad night and morning for DL overall not just with the Max situation and honestly some of the jumping off last night after the big week of talking us up all week really disappointed me. I'm sorry if it bothers people to express that but that's how I felt and while it would be unfair to judge people for being anxious (which by the way I'm just as anxious and about to be sick) think it would be unfair to judge me for having this opinion which frankly I don't have all that often as I usually stick it to the positive police.

    Everyone's different, not going to attack the way people feel. I think we weren't at our best on here, myself included. We'll have better days.

    There seems to be a real insistence on being right about the loss of Max though. If losing Max ends up being the worst thing for our season then a lot of people will be proven right and more power to them. Those of us bringing up comparisons might be off base but it's all we have to go on right now. I really want some kind of hope, you and I pay a lot for our memberships and I desperately want the boys to still give us something to watch this year. So being attacked for that doesn't make sense either.

    I love dealing with reality and facts most of the time but right now I'd rather live in some kind of hope than to be proven right in 6, 10, 20 weeks. 

    Hang in there and cross everything you've got Jaded. You're one of the posters who's views I most respect on here.

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