Jump to content

Xavier Lindsay Update?

darkhorse72
in Melbourne Demons

Featured Replies

Did we trade out this years first for the XL pick? Just wondering, as Im thinking this years pick will probably be a pretty good one!

  • Quote
    • Like 2
     

    I saw him running along the boundary prior to being subbed. No expert but if it was an ACL he wouldn’t be able to do that?

    Unless in typical MFC fashion he made it worse!!!

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    • Sad 1
    2 minutes ago, Marco said:

    I saw him running along the boundary prior to being subbed. No expert but if it was an ACL he wouldn’t be able to do that?

    Unless in typical MFC fashion he made it worse!!!

    Generally, if he can move ok afterwards it's more likely to be an ACL. One of the guys who did his earlier in the year came back on the ground and they didn't realise he'd done his ACL until the scan

  • Quote
    • Sad 3
     
    6 minutes ago, Mickey said:

    Generally, if he can move ok afterwards it's more likely to be an ACL. One of the guys who did his earlier in the year came back on the ground and they didn't realise he'd done his ACL until the scan

    If they thought ACL or even a chance at being one, they wouldn't let him run and test it. Whilst you cant rule it out - and the incident did look innocuous - i think it still safer to assume unlikely.

  • Quote
    • Like 3

    56 minutes ago, Mickey said:

    Generally, if he can move ok afterwards it's more likely to be an ACL. One of the guys who did his earlier in the year came back on the ground and they didn't realise he'd done his ACL until the scan

    It's true that you can often quite comfortably run in a straight line after rupturing your ACL. But as GS said, it's unusual for fitness staff to let you run on it if they suspect it.

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    10 minutes ago, The Taciturn Demon said:

    It's true that you can often quite comfortably run in a straight line after rupturing your ACL. But as GS said, it's unusual for fitness staff to let you run on it if they suspect it.

    Yep, but my understanding (purely from reading posts about it from people like weber) is that the test they use isn't always conclusive, and if it wasn't, they might let him test it with run throughs.

    At the end of the day, hopefully he'll be in the clear. But it wouldn't be rhe first time someone has tested it and then the scan has shown an ACL

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    1 hour ago, 2021 said:

    Did we trade out this years first for the XL pick? Just wondering, as Im thinking this years pick will probably be a pretty good one!

    Yep, and whilst a future first for pick 9 (which became 11) will draw the headlines especially if we give Essendon a top 5 pick that won’t be the bit that bothers me too much. Especially if XL can become an on baller and not just a flanker/wing. Worthy dice roll.

    But the extra cost for pick 28 (which became 32 from the ANB trade) and 40 (roughly 46) in the trade (not so worried about 54 and 65) in a really deep draft hurts. We have to take more useful draft picks and develop them up. Constantly trading up rather than letting the draft fall to you is a way to end up with stuff all depth as we have now.

  • Quote
    • Like 11
    • Thanks 1
    • Clap 1
     
    2 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

    Yep, and whilst a future first for pick 9 (which became 11) will draw the headlines especially if we give Essendon a top 5 pick that won’t be the bit that bothers me too much. Especially if XL can become an on baller and not just a flanker/wing. Worthy dice roll.

    But the extra cost for pick 28 (which became 32 from the ANB trade) and 40 (roughly 46) in the trade (not so worried about 54 and 65) in a really deep draft hurts. We have to take more useful draft picks and develop them up. Constantly trading up rather than letting the draft fall to you is a way to end up with stuff all depth as we have now.

    On the brightside, apparently the next draft is not going to have the depth of last year's. So even injured, XL was worth the risk. He is going to be a star.

  • Quote
    • Like 8
    6 minutes ago, Mickey said:

    is that the test they use isn't always conclusive

    You might be talking about the Lachman test. You lie on your back with your knees bent at a certain angle and a physio or doctor holds your thigh and then tugs your shin bone forward, hoping to feel what they call an "end point". That's the ACL doing its thing: keeping your knee stable. If there's no obvious feeling of the ACL 'resisting', it could suggest it's ruptured.

    You're right. It isn't always conclusive. I remember when I did mine, the physio on the boundary said they felt something and thought I'd be fine. Then a week later, I went and saw another physio and they thought they felt something as well. But whatever it was wasn't the intact ACL - the scan showed I'd done it.

    But I still think letting a player run on it is unusual unless the medical team just don't suspect it at all.

  • Quote
    • Like 5

    7 minutes ago, Flowergirl said:

    On the brightside, apparently the next draft is not going to have the depth of last year's. So even injured, XL was worth the risk. He is going to be a star.

    Yeah, he hasn't had much time to show it yet but at this point Lindsay is looking like absolute gold. Initiative, awareness, skill, speed, calmness, and not at all soft either considering he's still lightly built.

    Could still be a good decision to get him regardless of what this year's first ends up being.

    At this stage we can just all breathe a sigh of relief that we didn't saddle ourselves with 27yr old Houston and his contract for a top pick!

  • Quote
    • Like 12
    • Clap 2
    Just now, Little Goffy said:

    At this stage we can just all breathe a sigh of relief that we didn't saddle ourselves with 27yr old Houston and his contract for a top pick!

    As bad as everything feels at the moment, this situation PLUS Houston but no Langford or Lindsay would be so much worse.

  • Quote
    • Like 14
    • Love 1
    1 minute ago, Little Goffy said:

    Yeah, he hasn't had much time to show it yet but at this point Lindsay is looking like absolute gold. Initiative, awareness, skill, speed, calmness, and not at all soft either considering he's still lightly built.

    Could still be a good decision to get him regardless of what this year's first ends up being.

    At this stage we can just all breathe a sigh of relief that we didn't saddle ourselves with 27yr old Houston and his contract for a top pick!

    We could have used him down back today but I agree that it would have been a waste. Langford was clearly our best midfielder today and is also going to be an absolute star.

  • Quote
    • Like 5
    1 hour ago, Little Goffy said:

    Yeah, he hasn't had much time to show it yet but at this point Lindsay is looking like absolute gold. Initiative, awareness, skill, speed, calmness, and not at all soft either considering he's still lightly built.

    Could still be a good decision to get him regardless of what this year's first ends up being.

    At this stage we can just all breathe a sigh of relief that we didn't saddle ourselves with 27yr old Houston and his contract for a top pick!

    I think we've nailed both top end picks from last year. Langford played his first full game for 26 disposals at 77% DE, 5 clearances, 10 score involvements, and 1 goal 1 off 66% TOG.

    Taylor's recruitment of high end mids is second to none. Manufacture him more picks at the end of this year please.

  • Quote
    • Like 9
    • Thanks 1

    The ACL test they use has an 85% sensitivity and 94% specificity.

    The mechanism of injury was also a classic ACL.

    Running in a straight line after the injury, also relatively common.

    Take what you will from that.

    Fingers crossed.

    Edited by RyanD

  • Quote
    • Like 3

    4 minutes ago, RyanD said:

    The ACL test they use has an 85% sensitivity and 94% specificity.

    The mechanism of injury was also a classic ACL.

    Running in a straight line after the injury, also relatively common.

    Take what you will from that.

    Fingers crossed.

    I heard / read that he also did change of angle running testing on the sideline before being subbed off. Didn’t say anything either way.

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    36 minutes ago, Ugottobekidding said:

    Essendon will be happy turning pick 9 into pick one this year

    Very happy with Lindsay anyway

  • Quote
    • Like 7
    2 hours ago, Ugottobekidding said:

    Essendon will be happy turning pick 9 into pick one this year

    Pick 9 last year much better calibre than what pick 1 - 5 will be this year.

  • Quote
    • Like 3

    1 hour ago, Flowergirl said:

    Pick 9 last year much better calibre than what pick 1 - 5 will be this year.

    that seems to be the consensus at this point in time, particularly with the pointy end picks in the 2025 draft set to be - once again - dominated by academy and father / son selections

    but it's impossible to know how it's going to play out for at least half a decade i reckon

    fingers crossed lindsay's knee is not as serious as it looked

  • Quote
    • Like 3

    I think we will pick up once we get a few players back. ATM we have a number of new players in and it shows with a lack of cohesion.

    Having said that it will be very, very tough to make the 8.

    Its a long season.

    Hoping like 'hell' X's is not an ACL.

  • Quote
    • Like 4
    8 minutes ago, manny100 said:

    It shows with a lack of cohesion.

    Having said that it will be very, very tough to make the 8.

    Its a long season.

    Hoping like 'hell' X's is not an ACL.

    The 'old cohesion chestnut....

  • Quote
    • Haha 1
     
    1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

    The 'old cohesion chestnut....

    That is the problem with team sport at the elite level. If all team members are not 'perfectly' aligned' with each other its a recipe for disaster.

    You could see how well GC executed their game plan yesterday. They worked exceptionally well supporting each other as a team

  • Quote
    • Like 4
    • Clap 1

    Join the conversation

    You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

    Guest
    Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
    Reply to this topic...
    Go to topic listing

    Featured Content

    • REPORT: St. Kilda

      When looking back at the disastrous end to the game, I find it a waste of time to concentrate on the final few moments when utter confusion reigned. Forget the 6-6-6 mess, the failure to mark the most dangerous man on the field, the inability to seal the game when opportunities presented themselves to Clayton Oliver, Harry Petty and Charlie Spargo, the vision of match winning players of recent weeks in Kozzy Pickett and Jake Melksham spending helpless minutes on the interchange bench and the powerlessness of seizing the opportunity to slow the tempo of the game down in those final moments.

      • 1 reply
      Demonland

    • CASEY: Sandringham

      The Casey Demons rebounded from a sluggish start to manufacture a decisive win against Sandringham in the final showdown, culminating a quarter century of intense rivalry between the fluctuating alignments of teams affiliated with AFL clubs Melbourne and St Kilda, as the Saints and the Zebras prepare to forge independent paths in 2026. After conceding three of the first four goals of the match, the Demons went on a goal kicking rampage instigated by the winning ruck combination of Tom Campbell with 26 hitouts, 26 disposals and 13 clearances and his apprentice Will Verrall who contributed 20 hitouts. This gave first use of the ball to the likes of Jack Billings, Bayley Laurie, Riley Bonner and Koltyn Tholstrup who was impressive early. By the first break they had added seven goals and took a strong grip on the game. The Demons were well served up forward early by Mitch Hardie and, as the game progressed, Harry Sharp proved a menace with a five goal performance. Emerging young forwards Matthew Jefferson and Luker Kentfield kicked two each but the former let himself down with some poor kicking for goal.
      Young draft talent Will Duursma showed the depth of his talent and looks well out of reach for Melbourne this year. Kalani White was used sparingly and had a brief but uneventful stint in the ruck.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland

    • PREGAME: West Coast

      The Demons return to the scene of the crime on Saturday to face the wooden spooners the Eagles at the Docklands. Who comes in and who goes out? Like moving deck chairs on the Titanic.

        • Clap
        • Haha
        • Like
      • 76 replies
      Demonland

    • POSTGAME: St. Kilda

      This season cannot end soon enough. Disgraceful.

        • Clap
        • Like
      • 470 replies
      Demonland

    • VOTES: St. Kilda

      Captain Max Gawn still has a massive lead in the Demonland Player of the Year Award from Christian Petracca, Kozzy Pickett, Jake Bowey & Clayton Oliver. Your votes please; 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1.

        • Thanks
      • 25 replies
      Demonland

    • GAMEDAY: St. Kilda

      It's Game Day and there are only 5 games to go. Can the Demons find some consistency and form as they stagger towards the finish line of another uninspiring season?

        • Like
      • 566 replies
      Demonland
    View All