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If the 5-6 weeks being rumoured is correct, that’s an enormous win, could just as easily have ruptured ankle medial ligament, inferior tibio-fibular syndesmosis, or fracture (the things I was worried about). The way he injured it, with the ankle in dorsiflexion, meaning toes toward knee, is very unlikely to cause a Lisfranc disruption. It almost always occurs with foot in plantarflexion (ballerina ‘point’ direction). As a dweeby aside, the Lisfranc injury is named after Napoleon’s cavalry head honcho, Générale Lisfranc, who reported the injury occurring commonly to soldiers who were knocked off their horse, only to have a foot locked in the stirrup in forced plantarflexion. Ouchy. Too much nerdy-know? Not if you want to win your next pub trivia night!

Yep. JJ and Sparrow were v good (after first quarter) as usual. Harmesy ran around a lot with some horrible decision making and beyond awful disposal. He’s in a category all his own at the moment. in the end, a decent correction after quarter time, but that first quarter was indescribably bad.

Baffling, isn’t it. You get what you deserve I guess.

Wow. Can’t say I’m surprised. As Craig McCrae said, it’s so much between the ears. We’re not winning this cos we didn’t come to win with the effort it truly takes. Not harsh to say this is pathetic.

Both Murphy and Daicos injuries were contact-tackle related, so couldn’t be attributable to fatigue, just the vagaries of a contact sport. FWIW, I reckon other than the first quarter, when the Pies were NOT mentally ready, and in a truly bizarre fashion, I reckon it’s the Pies game style that Hawthorn exposed, not any very obvious fatigue - pressure at the contest source and for the next release, then a willingness to go risky bananas into attack. Only works if everyone’s committed of course, and frankly Sam Mitchell has got his troops eating out of his hand in that respect. In summary, and despite media fawning, Collingwood’s game has now been proven vulnerable, and what’s more significant, they know it.

Be even more impressive WITH Frosty.

Yep, it’s official. Garry Lyon is a HORRIBLE commentator. FMD!

This is the Hawks GF, and they’re catapult for next year if they win. They’ll have to reverse their late game fatigue to do it. SO DO IT!!!!!!

Here’s hoping….

I think they’ve just learned the danger, corrected, and will win this very easily. Sadly, obviously.

No ‘just about’ about it. Hawks would be 7 goals up if not for him.

I see. Those horns must be awkward then. Not to mention the hooves.

I’ll just take it Andy that you do resemble a youthful reverse-eyebrowed Mr. Spock, and George a wiser version of Harry Beitzel? Presuming also that binman’s Garry Baker-alike, all shimmering hair and beard, is just wishful thinking?

Fine pod again, boys. Excuse me if I missed something, but are the three (obviously handsome) caricatures on the web page header ‘actual’ representations of you three?

Spot on. Was always going to be our next key forward, but I guess only some of us knew that. 😎

Try the demi-decade

Yes I bl***y well did! Patience and time, BA.

There’s no way of saying this without sounding like an absolute smart****, but I don’t care. I said in 2019 that Harry Petty would be our next best KPF. Never wavered (just kept quieter when the selectors looked like they might lose their nerve, so as not to be a repetitive bore), and today is why. In that assessment, I said his move forward from CHB would be like that of David Neitz. Too good a contested grab, too good at reading the play and too much a competitive beast who feeds on small wins to leave down back. And kicks STRAIGHT. No question he’s been great in the backline, but the boy was always gonna be a forward. Well done Petts, (I told you so, hehehe).

No we shouldn’t, if defence counts for anything.

All about starving supply, but they’re attacking much more than us, just have wasted shots.

At the game, and the lack of (defensive) pressure in the forward 50 is staggering! Ugly signs, and we’re going to get run over if we don’t improve our contest and pressure, Jack Viney excused, and assuming Crows have the legs. Can’t exit defensive with any conviction, can’t keep it in our own. Awful football, except for that bright 10 minutes.

Conspiratorial fugazi. It’s not an exact science, however much we wish otherwise.

You just can’t speed the tendon recovery, so if we accept that it IS tendon, the progression to sprint/acceleration will speed over the next month. I certainly wouldn’t worry about his skills, and match fitness for players such as Clarry is in the head as much as legs. He’ll be like a caged lion come his return. His aerobic fitness won’t be a problem, as he’d be doing lots of other stuff - bike, pool, circuit.

I reckon it’s panning out to be precisely a tendon injury timeline. He’ll be back, and knowing Clarry’s intent (vomiting with exhaustion in his first ever practice match), he won’t play like he’s underdone.

As best I can glean, they’ve determined he’s got a tear at the Musculo-tendinous junction, or M-T junction (where the ‘white’ tissue meets the ‘red’) of 2 (of his 3) hamstrings. These are more complicated than a simple mid-belly tear (3 week rule) and not as bad as a tear in the tendon pure (3 month +). Hence the time taken. Why they couldn’t determine this at first diagnosis, who knows (imaging isn’t perfect by any means), but it just means a longer timeframe, and longer still the more ‘tendon’ than ‘muscle’. This far into his rehab though, it’s now all about his symptom reportage, whether he can repeat sprint, accelerate, jump and land without pain, so we’ll just have to wait. Cherry ripe for finals I’m thinking.