Injury Nic Naitanui confirmed ACL reconstruction

[jdisc]

don't players who do ACLs usually:

1. go to ground in tremendous pain (not hobble off)
2. are generally fine walking after the pain has subsided (not hobbling around the rooms)?

 

[BartBart]

Haha no shit, Lycett would be asking for a bit more now i reckon.

Just hope draft time priority are mids and a project ruck (after signing Lycett) and not best available (i.e. key position def/fwd)

 

[BartBart]

don't players who do ACLs usually:

1. go to ground in tremendous pain (not hobble off)
2. are generally fine walking after the pain has subsided (not hobbling around the rooms)?

John Worsfold ran off the field with a busted ACL. True that (for some) after the intense pain that does subside.

 

[Matele]

John Worsfold ran off the field with a busted ACL. True that (for some) after the intense pain that does subside.

Yeah, my dad walked across the refinery he works at to the medical centre after doing his.

 

[Coasters7]

don't players who do ACLs usually:

1. go to ground in tremendous pain (not hobble off)
2. are generally fine walking after the pain has subsided (not hobbling around the rooms)?

Probably depends what else he did. Might have wrecked more than just the acl and that’s what the pains from? Definitely looks bad

 

[Coaster90]

I don't believe it's an ACL though I do believe it's the last we see NN this year. Medial Strain or Meniscus 6-8 weeks and by the you'd be risking a lot to bring him in potentially underdone in the finals.

I don't get the doom and gloom though - I thought Lycett handled himself well.

 

[RookiePick]

Naitanui mashed his bones in the last one. Wouldnt surprise me if he has done similar in this one. ACL plus bone/cartilidge. Thats where the o hoing pai is from

 

[WCE Wizard]

I don't believe it's an ACL though I do believe it's the last we see NN this year. Medial Strain or Meniscus 6-8 weeks and by the you'd be risking a lot to bring him in potentially underdone in the finals.

I don't get the doom and gloom though - I thought Lycett handled himself well.

Me too lycett was awesome and we smashed them around the ball

 

[CoastersFlag No.5]

Doesn't look good. Knee went inwards according to the vision.

 

[jdisc]

that said the doctors did assess Yeo for an ACL injury in one of the home games so they clearly have methods for testing if it's an ACL injury without waiting on scans

 

[kerrazy]

I don't believe it's an ACL though I do believe it's the last we see NN this year. Medial Strain or Meniscus 6-8 weeks and by the you'd be risking a lot to bring him in potentially underdone in the finals.

I don't get the doom and gloom though - I thought Lycett handled himself well.

I can definitely see why people have perceptions of doom and gloom. Naitanui has been the one that has "papered over the cracks" with our horrendous midfield over many years. We have seen first hand what its like when someone else is rucking in his place. We usually lose the clearances, get dominated with contested ball, etc.

However, today should be a good reason for us to believe that it isn't all doom and gloom. We killed Collingwood without him and our mids dominated.

 

[eaglefan92]

RIP NicNat 2018
I'll be praying to the footy gods I'm wrong.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

We beat GWS with no forward line. GWS just knocked off the reigning premiers. We smashed Colingwood after half time without Nic Nat AT THE FREAKING MCG.

Screw it, we can still go all the way.

 

[Biggie]

Great win today from the Eagles. Haselby saying that NN may retire if it an ACL. Sad for the game.

Crikey

That mofo said that??

Settle down Haze

 

[Coasters7]

Crikey

That mofo said that??

Settle down Haze

Don’t reckon it would be as unrealistic as it sounds though. Acl wouldn’t see him back playing till 2020 and id say there’s not a lot of chance of him coming back like he did the year with both knees shaky. Also he’s the type of guy that would realise this and retire for the good of the team.

 

[EagleShore]

Can't they do some tests on a knee straight away to determine whether it's an ACL? I know they don't confirm ACL but are usually ~90% correct. I suppose Simmo reaction says these test were bad news..

Yep. Clinical testing is usually quite accurate, particularly when performed by the calibre of the average AFL physio or doctor.

 

[BartBart]

RIP NicNat 2018
I'll be praying to the footy gods I'm wrong.

It's not quite that bad - he hasn't died & been buried. But yeah - hope his 2018 & 2019 seasons are not wrecked.

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

I think the sensible thing to do is just make your peace with the fact that there is probably an 80-85% chance that was a season ending, career threatening injury, be disappointed, and get on with your life.

We won't know for sure till the scans, but there's nothing about it that looks good. The footage, Simpson, and NN's behaviour in the rooms all say ACL.

More than anything else I'm shattered for him if he can't play finals- he deserved one really big September during his career, and with a top 2 finish and good away form this was the year.

 

[Hap Hapablap]

surely due to his age and to save his career theyll go LARS he isnt getting any younger if it is an ACL

 

[Sammy J]

If it’s a confirmed ACL, he should go the LARS route and try get back either late this season or be right for next.

 

[BartBart]

If it’s a confirmed ACL, he should go the LARS route and try get back either late this season or be right for next.

Surely even LARS wouldn't see him back this season.

 

[ossie_21]

In a week one of my favourite players has had to walk away from the game due to multiple knee injuries, this sucks. Still young enough to get back, but if there was any hesitation at all about the knee he previously did it would be worse with both having recons.

don't players who do ACLs usually:

1. go to ground in tremendous pain (not hobble off)
2. are generally fine walking after the pain has subsided (not hobbling around the rooms)?

I read about it being described by intense pain straight away, then almost nothing within seconds/minutes. This is why so many players limp/walk off so you think that it might be something less serious. They will know without scans what has happened, judging off comments hear about how Simpson spoke about it, they know.

Terrible timing for the bloke yet again not long before finals, sucks at his age to have 2 of them when he should be in his prime.

 

[WCE Wizard]

I can definitely see why people have perceptions of doom and gloom. Naitanui has been the one that has "papered over the cracks" with our horrendous midfield over many years. We have seen first hand what its like when someone else is rucking in his place. We usually lose the clearances, get dominated with contested ball, etc.

However, today should be a good reason for us to believe that it isn't all doom and gloom. We killed Collingwood without him and our mids dominated.

Exactly thank you it’s because our game
Plan has evolved. Ball movement and can still bring in Ryan, Barras and Sheed

 

[Quinz]

I think the sensible thing to do is just make your peace with the fact that there is probably an 80-85% chance that was a season ending, career threatening injury, be disappointed, and get on with your life.

I flat out refuse to do any of that. I'm closer to donating my own ligaments if it helps NN get back than moving on with my life.

This is bullshit. I don't deserve this.

 

[ghostbat12]

If it’s a confirmed ACL, he should go the LARS route and try get back either late this season or be right for next.

Think with Lars there is a bigger chance of re-doing it.