Salem’s Long Journey Back

[Deestar9 1,585]

11 hours ago, monoccular said:

Yes, it would be great, without risking breaching copyright (ie don’t cut and paste) to get a brief précis on what in particular he needs to come back from.  NB knee, calf, thyroid, etc

He basically detailed how 2 knee surgeries detailed his season in 2022 & then in 2023 the thyroid condition which led to (he believes) his knee surgery (a bit of cartilage chipped off due to the knee being weakened from lying on the couch for a month). Never got back his fitness. The thyroid issue sounded awful. This season already did an intense training session overseas with a lot of different athletes etc and feels he has that “zip” back. The last time he felt like this was in 2021. He sounded extremely positive. 

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On the topic of peroxide, in 2022 I was uhm-ing and ah-ing over whether to dye my hair blonde.  Right before finals, Salo went back to blonde and that was the clincher for me!  Waiting for us to be in at least a semi-final to temporarily dye my blonde hair red and blue one of these days...

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Salem has always been a player that has missed a few preseason and always reflects on his season 

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21 hours ago, Roger Mellie said:

So 640, what did it say?

 

Basically what Deestar9  said couple of posts ago.

He lost his Zip from 2021.

2022 ruined cos of the 2 knee operations   then in the pre season 2023 got the Thyroid again after six years.

lost weight and no Zip.

Heart rate of 125 walking to the table.

Resting to recover lost all fitness from the pre season work   then hurt his knee again. The year was done really.

Seems confident a good pre season  will give him Zip again

Spoke about Oliver and the club all getting united and attacking the problem head on.

Not a bad few words really especially when it was in the HScum.

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On 22/12/2023 at 19:26, monoccular said:

I thought he had it sewn up in the first quarter. 
And yes, Johannasen won one which surprised many. 

And I reckon first Tiger flag, Houli was the one keeping them in it when Adelaide were on.
Naturally  media favourite Dusty got it. 

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It seems to me that Salem has appeared in the media more in the last 3-4 weeks than throughout the whole of the rest of his career combined. If that's correct, I wonder why? Has the club asked him, as a senior player, to do more? Does he want to do more as he considers his post-playing future?