Player Watch #22 Sam Cumming - 4 Week Injury

[Groupie_]

wen surgery

 

[Hank Heavenly]

wen surgery

for your transition?

Prob need to ask your surgeon that Group!

 

[_DBF_]

for your transition?

Prob need to ask your surgeon that Group!

Running with rehab group (smillie sims
And clarke) today.

 

[Grrr]

Running with rehab group (smillie sims
And clarke) today.

Good that they are all out on the track bar Hotton...... who is at least off crutches!

 

[prodigy]

Three weeks of full contact training and we hopefully get a handful of games into him.

 

[Truetiger]

He is rejoining full training this week.

 

[Charlie Pannam]

Hope we’ve got this one right.

 

[tropicaltiger]

Three weeks of full contact training and we hopefully get a handful of games into him.

I would advise the young fella to give Jack Graham a ring, from memory Jack done a similar injury from a miscalculated tackle, a 15min chat with JGTI may involve changing tackling techniques and advice on surgery.

 

[Daka]

Should have booked him in for surgery straight away.
wait till it comes to it, and they just wasted like 4-5 weeks for nothing.

 

[rfctigerarmy]

Should have booked him in for surgery straight away.
wait till it comes to it, and they just wasted like 4-5 weeks for nothing.

Agreed

 

[tiger_tough]

It'd be good for him to get a game this year.

 

[Muddiemoose]

Should have booked him in for surgery straight away.
wait till it comes to it, and they just wasted like 4-5 weeks for nothing.

Not really
If he plays a handful of games before the surgery he gets experience this year instead of none at all

 

[_RT_]

Should have booked him in for surgery straight away.
wait till it comes to it, and they just wasted like 4-5 weeks for nothing.

Annable at the Lions injured his shoulder in his first game and is booked for surgery on Thursday to get him fixed up immediately.

We should have done the same with Cumming and still could have played him later in the season if the recovery went well.

 

[fargothegreat]

I think the club has said if he gets the surgery his season is done, so they want to try and get some games into him first if his shoulder can handle it.

 

[Grrr]

Should have booked him in for surgery straight away.
wait till it comes to it, and they just wasted like 4-5 weeks for nothing.

Surgery meant out for the year. I'll take the 4-5 weeks. If he does it again, then it is surgery, but if he doesn't he might play the year out.

 

[Grrr]

Annable at the Lions injured his shoulder in his first game and is booked for surgery on Thursday to get him fixed up immediately.

We should have done the same with Cumming and still could have played him later in the season if the recovery went well.

But Cumming re-injury was on the minor side. He said he was pain free the evening he did it. Annable's could have been far worse who knows.

 

[_RT_]

But Cumming re-injury was on the minor side. He said he was pain free the evening he did it. Annable's could have been far worse who knows.

Minor side or not, it's a repeat injury, which suggests that there is a likelihood that he will injure it again, so IMO the best course would be to get it sorted now, and have him available for the start of preseason with no ongoing concerns hopefully.

If he plays this year and gets through to say August with no issues and then does the injury a 3rd time and then needs surgery then he is effectively missing the ability to do any strength training through most of the summer.

Anyways like pretty much everyone else here we have no real knowledge of the situation and can only back the club to make the right call.

 

[THE_GUN]

We have experience doctors not only at the club but also external specialists that Cumming would have seen and consulted
The decision would have been made with their full knowledge and recommendation.
People here are gun shy due to Smillie's injury which most likely has never been seen at AFL level and this is not the same
its a common injury that most clubs would have handled regularly so not concerned

 

[cairo tiger]

We have experience doctors not only at the club but also external specialists that Cumming would have seen and consulted
The decision would have been made with their full knowledge and recommendation.
People here are gun shy due to Smillie's injury which most likely has never been seen at AFL level and this is not the same
its a common injury that most clubs would have handled regularly so not concerned

we have serpell the slicer no confidence in him at all

 

[Truetiger]

Should have booked him in for surgery straight away.
wait till it comes to it, and they just wasted like 4-5 weeks for nothing.

Confidence-wise, for the kid to play games will be a positive.

 

[Daka]

Confidence-wise, for the kid to play games will be a positive.

I just don't want it to be a waste of time or he either makes the injury worse.

 

[tropicaltiger]

Not really
If he plays a handful of games before the surgery he gets experience this year instead of none at all

agree 99% of good suburban footballers back in the day play on with this injury for 10 years with minor or no discomfort where or because surgery is too costly or was less advanced.......guessing but expecting if end of season op is required it will be a minor clean up to tighten things up and suck out some scar tissue.

 

[partycorolla]

Should have booked him in for surgery straight away.
wait till it comes to it, and they just wasted like 4-5 weeks for nothing.

Disagree... he'll get a crack at 4-5 games unless he hurts it again and with suregery then he'll still be right for pre-season. If he had surgery straight away, would be doubtful to play at all this year. They obviously want to give him some exposure so he knows what he needs to work towards in pre-season number 2.

 

[partycorolla]

we have serpell the slicer no confidence in him at all

Not commonly understood here but Serpell doesn't actually perform the surgery on the players...

 

[beema limapep]

We all know the non-surgery option isn't going to work.