Adam Cooney

[cammo78]

As un-glamorous as it is, could he be a run with player?

He can't run, so no.

 

[nineteen eighty]

As one of the other posters stated, didn't Mcleod have bone on bone in his knee? Has Cooney ever been played as a HBF in a similar way to Mcleod? Playing HF in a struggling team is one of the hardest positions on the ground. Could it be that his knee is OK (ish...not what it used to be but not as bad as all you blokes are claiming) and that it's just that playing HF in a struggling team is going to mean he's going to struggle.

I'm hoping for his sake that he could maybe re-invent himself as a HBF and that his knee isn't as bad as what is claimed.

 

[Morris Major]

Shattered kneecap a bit different from bone-on-bone isn't it?

From all reports he's not the best professional out there, add that on top of the fact that his injury needs to be well managed - well it's not the kind of combination you want

It's such a shame, if fit he would be part of our next tilt at the finals for sure

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

As un-glamorous as it is, could he be a run with player?

He can't run.

 

[Nick Lions]

Bloody shame, was a top notch footballer, seems like he's a good bloke too.
Knee injuries are jerks.

 

[boydsno1]

So shattered to see Cooney how he is. At 26 he should be destroying it like he did in his Brownlow year but sadly he can't even make the distance on set shots from 40m out and if the talk is true of his knee only getting worse then i assume he may retire at season end or when his Contract is up next year.

If he was to continue beyond next season then he would have to take a massive paycut.
Maybe the club can send him oversea's and see if they can find some sort of knee expert that can fix it but i doubt it.

With the pain and his form i doubt he would go on much longer.
I miss seeing him run out of the middle at full speed with the crowd screaming out COOOOOONNNNN while he bangs them home from 50 or hits a forward on the chest.

 

[ManOfClay]

He has had one-injury free pre-season- 2008.

Shame.

Although he's been good in parts this year, yes not his devastating best but looked like he was managing the injury well. Typical bigfooty to come out after he has a bad game and say he's finished.

 

[AG]

Dogs supporters seem to he the most vocal saying he is done though.

 

[ManOfClay]

Dogs supporters seem to he the most vocal saying he is done though.

Which is why I didn't say "typical opposition supporters".

Every team has their fair share of goldfish. Especially after a loss.

 

[boydsno1]

He has had one-injury free pre-season- 2008.

Shame.

Although he's been good in parts this year, yes not his devastating best but looked like he was managing the injury well. Typical bigfooty to come out after he has a bad game and say he's finished.

Lets be realistic. Im sure he will still put in good efforts every now and then but due to his injury these poor performances will happen more often as he battle's his knee.

Like i stated in the dogs board, Unless he is prepared to take a massive pay cut then we can't afford to rest him on a regular basis just to play him in patches of 2 or 3 games in a row and mostly as a sub.

I love the Coon dog as much as any other doggie fan but his end is coming quickly. I would love to be proved wrong and we find some magic doctor who can fix his issue's but it doesn't look likely.

 

[Dogs_r_barking]

His knee can just blow up over night, the club manages it the best they can, but we will never see the best of Cooney. Heart breaking for him, and for our club.

 

[KAYNE]

Dogs supporters seem to he the most vocal saying he is done though.

That's what I was thinking. But he just looked lazy yesterday. I have seen him only twice this year a game when they won and he was running fine but when they were getting beaten he didn't work nearly hard enough.

 

[RevDog]

Which is why I didn't say "typical opposition supporters".

Every team has their fair share of goldfish. Especially after a loss.

I'm not saying it just because we had a lose, I can deal with that and will be back at the ground next week supporting the club. It's just the fact that Cooney isn't going to be the player he once was and it is a damn shame!

 

[Natho]

Poor bloke. Would be some miracle if his knee could get back in decent shape.

 

[mysainters]

He can't run, so no.

Fair enough.

Just remember in 2007 Luke Ball played as an inside tagger, and did it very well....he couldn't run then either.

 

[GoalSneak38]

Fair enough.

Just remember in 2007 Luke Ball played as an inside tagger, and did it very well....he couldn't run then either.

Very different injuries champ

 

[woopedazz]

Didn't McLeod have a similar issue for a long time?

It's the same injury McLeod played ~8+ season with. I guess different styles of play allowed him to play through it easier or something.

Macca had a tailored training regime and very structured lifestyle at home to allow him to get up each weekend, from all accounts Cooney does not.

 

[Come Get Some]

i see a lot of the doctors here in adelaide that deal with the crows and port players. i also know a lot about knee injuries (not trying to sound arrogant). mcleod was getting synvisc injections for years and said it saved his career. he was also bone on bone like cooney. synvisc is a gel/lubricant that makes the knee feel like it has its normal cartlige in. i found it strange that cooney doesnt get this jabs, orthat they dont work for him.
mcleod is still playing here in country sa footy.
its bizzare. does anyone know exactly what is wrong with cooneys knee? is it any diff to mcleods?

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Interesting to hear Eade talk about it a bit on 360 tonight (Tues). He mentioned that Cooney still has his explosive speed, but just can't get the volume of training in to be able to repeat those efforts throughout a match. I'm sure the medical staff would look at all options, but you've got to wonder if there's not some sort of surgery or rehabilitation program out there. Even if the time frame is 18 months, it'd be worth it to have him play another 50 games.

 

[G-Mo77]

It's the same injury McLeod played ~8+ season with. I guess different styles of play allowed him to play through it easier or something.

Macca had a tailored training regime and very structured lifestyle at home to allow him to get up each weekend, from all accounts Cooney does not.

I don't know enough about what McLeod did, I try to block out quite a few of his years to help me get through life.

What exactly did McLeod do? No cartilage in the knee which caused bone on bone or did he shatter the patella like Cooney did?

 

[_Mike_]

- Cooney has done 1 pre season since 2008
- The fracturing of the knee cap damages the posterior surface and tears the meniscus cartillage between the bottom of the femur and top if the tibia
- damage to the cartillage and exposed bone behind the knee promotes rubbing of exposed bone on the surface joint. The cartilllage cant be repaired once it's damage, and there is no technology available in medicine that can repair it.
- from the exposed bone, arthritis forms which is based on the constant inflamation of the joint. This debilitating condition starts to degenerate the joint even further with the constant movement that a knee must provide. This results in arthritic disease and further joint breakdown
- short term management is based on a gentle phyiotherapy program with a combination of injections into the joint in the form of synvisc
- off season requires arthroscopic surgery to remove the bone spur growths brought on by the inflamation of teh joint combined with the exposed bone rubbing together
- the long term prognosis is not good. Knee replacement

Sadly, there is no road to recovery that will ever get him back to where he was in 2008.

 

[Blessed]

If he played in a top team, he could play forward pocket and be a match winning goal kicker.

He was a really good player.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

- Cooney has done 1 pre season since 2008
- The fracturing of the knee cap damages the posterior surface and tears the meniscus cartillage between the bottom of the femur and top if the tibia
- damage to the cartillage and exposed bone behind the knee promotes rubbing of exposed bone on the surface joint. The cartilllage cant be repaired once it's damage, and there is no technology available in medicine that can repair it.
- from the exposed bone, arthritis forms which is based on the constant inflamation of the joint. This debilitating condition starts to degenerate the joint even further with the constant movement that a knee must provide. This results in arthritic disease and further joint breakdown
- short term management is based on a gentle phyiotherapy program with a combination of injections into the joint in the form of synvisc
- off season requires arthroscopic surgery to remove the bone spur growths brought on by the inflamation of teh joint combined with the exposed bone rubbing together
- the long term prognosis is not good. Knee replacement

Sadly, there is no road to recovery that will ever get him back to where he was in 2008.

Thanks for putting it all out there. There hasn't been much attention on the specifics of it. He needs to worry about life after footy with something like that :/

 

[Barkly St End]

I hope a role can be kept for him in the club as he winds down his playing duties: mentoring youngsters, recruitment, or something.

Could he become a specialist sub for the remainder of his contract?

 

[zetz]

Bloody shame, was a top notch footballer, seems like he's a good bloke too.
Knee injuries are jerks.

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