Webber

Common as dust?

Utter nonsense. ACL reconstruction is as common as muck, and it is still very unusual for players not to make a full recovery. I rehabilitate dozens per year, and it's a streamlined process now.

As long as he stays fit/uninjured, he won't be shifted from our midfield this year. Players of his physical presence are rare, and with natural improvements in skills, endurance and reading the game, he'll be all over it this year, particularly considering he's going to get more help. That he doesn't stand out at training is of no concern whatever I reckon.

Good luck with the 'think before typing' advice, Goag. Standard management for dislocated patella is to allow soft tissue recovery after the first one, build the strength back up, strap to protect the patella as best as possible, then send them back out there to see what happens. ANB has now re dislocated by all reports, so he'll have patella stabilisation surgery, of which there are a few methods, depending on any biomechanical predispositions he has. He'll be a few months gone whichever way it goes, so expect him back mid seasonish.

Same for me on Matt Jones. Wildly underrated on here.

Nathan Jones has just assured himself of outright club legend status. The 'one club' loyalty he is showing is vastly underrated in this competition, and it speaks to a level of commitment and integrity that goes beyond the ''me, me, me, I want more money, I want premierships, I want to be a star" that we so often see. 3 'blueys', captaincy for the next 4 or 5 years, riding with the club to expected improvement, you are a class act Nathan Jones, and it doesn't go unnoticed.

HOGES 101 goals for 2015. Welcome to the new spearhead revolution. The perfect combination of Jason Dunstall and Wayne Carey. Or, ruptures his ACL round 1.

His story to get his chance in the AFL is a great one, much like that of the (perpetually) underrated Matt Jones. Best of luck to him, and I'm still struggling with the idea of 22 as 'mature-aged'.

He's a winger if ever I've seen one. What the boy needs is space, to run into, through, and from. It also is the way he uses his marking talents best. The problem he is facing up forward is when there is a compression of other players, his defender simply bodies him out of the play, as his contested work body on body is woeful. He is the classic outside player with good hands and an insane leap. He doesn't like bodying up, and he's no good at it. Now his endurance is growing, we should see the best of Jeremy Howe. A stay at home, mark clunking forward he is not. A free running, long kicking, hanger taking forward floating winger he is.

I'm talking about the reductive process of metabolising food. Thus, if you eat a boiled egg, we know what that egg is chemically constructed of, and we know how the body metabolises those constituents. It's just the digestive process. When you add all the things we ingest in combination, it becomes an enormously complicated system, but at a constituent level, it's a well known, well studied process.

was thinking the same

What you've been told is wrong, and any 'research' that supports that idea is dodgy. Credibility on matters of science relates to provable fact only. When it comes to diet, there are gazillions of systems and plans and perfect combinations out there, and variation does relate to different needs. When it comes to what the body does with what we put into it though, it's known and proven.

Oh yeah. You lost me at 'statistics'.

Great story Bossdog, and clearly you had a lot of potential for 'moderation'! The 'everything in moderation' mantra, and it is a mantra, is more about retaining a psychological wellbeing than a recipe for elite fitness and wicked good health. It's about reward, comfort, the feeling of not being deprived, and sensory pleasure mostly. The reality is that a number of those things in the 'everything' have little or no nutritional value. If they're not significant in the diet, like they are no longer in yours, then who cares? You're healthy AND happy, but there's a difference between getting maximal health benefit from everything you eat, and mixing in some rubbish in harmless amounts. At elite levels of sports performance, those little rubbish sadly can make a difference.

Well done ET, but what you just said about 'other proteins' and body processing and excreting is just piffle. You might have read it somewhere, or been told it, but that doesn't make it true. Which it isn't. ANY protein from ANY source will be processed and used by the body as per the body's needs at that time. If you have more than it needs, at that time, it will be excreted.

Self determination is definitely a privilege we all have and probably take for granted in Australia, except when it comes to death of course, then it's too often up to others to decide when you can 'check-out'. The biggest act of self determination, and yet the one we still treat like children. That's another story though. You've got to be sure that good science and fact aren't being obscured by rubbish in such a free society of information however, and there's a lot of nutbaggery going on out there when it comes to diet.

There's no doubt wOOdy that paleo does go with weight loss. It's proven. There is also no avoiding the long term problems associated with high animal protein intake, and fat, for some of the same and some different reasons, regardless of weight. More overweight also equals more disease, but the levels of overweight/obesity in people eating plant based wholefood diets are radically diminished compared to the alternative. Don't forget also that sugar is a huge factor. If you're cutting that out, you're already winning. There's more than one way to skin a cat, but there's also the best way. Not that I could EVER skin a cat, I love the little beasts.

Agree. Exciting midfield times ahead, emphasis on time, tick tick tick. Once again however we see the relegation of Matt Jones to the 'back-up' or unlikely to get a gig once the 'real' midfield kicks in. Like it or not, he's going to be hard to shift from our midfield, because, a little like Dan Cross, he's not that pretty, but plays his role and plays it well.

Thanks Nasher, I have seen the random ramblings of dee-luded before, but this seemed to take the ramble into a new sphere of 'WTF'. Ah, the rich tapestry that is Demonland.

Either you're joking, or that's the stupidest thing I've heard in eons. I hope for your sake it's the latter.

Spot on, rjay.

Sorry dee-luded, but the idea of 'amounts of running' being adverse to muscle growth unless you eat s***loads of meat is nonsense. I presume you're joking about 'aggression'. I eat only fish once or twice a week, but if you pi*s me off, I'll happily beat the cr*p out of you

Fanaticism is very frustrating, and comes with faddism, sadly. The long term studies of dietary trends you speak of has been covered in the previously mentioned 'The China Study' by Dr. Colin Campbell. This is an audit of the disease and mortality outcomes of hundreds of thousands of people over a number of decades. It is by an enormous margin the most comprehensive study of diet relationship to disease ever done. It is NOT changing people's eating and seeing what happens, but simply a retrospective review. You are right when it comes to poor science being used to push biased agendas, but there is such a thing as good science rjay, and it's the reason we live longer healthier lives than ever. If you're prepared to engage with the findings of the China Study, and many people are not, then I suggest you read it. To put it too simply, animal protein at levels greater than 5 % of the diet is directly associated with increasing disease. Food is emotional, many people see meat and dairy as manly, australian, blah blah, so reject even the idea that we eat too much. Like Climate Change, the science is secure, but it doesn't stop the ignorant masses claiming bull***t. As to the Dees, the benefit they're primarily looking for from Paleo, is to improve their body's use of fat as fuel. It is also scientifically justified, just all sorts of wrong over the long term.

Have a Google on 'vegan bodybuilders', dee-luded, and you'll see that 'feed them meat' is a fallacious notion. We need the protein that we need, not the mountains of animal flesh that Australians chow down currently, and that includes young professional footballers trying to build size.

Pretty tough to work out which is his preferred kicking foot. A HUGE skill to have. Very hard not to expect massive things from this kid, but I'm trying