Retired #18: Michael Hurley 🐻 - Staying on in a coaching and player welfare role! - 3/10

[Lore]

Non-contact for another week but otherwise has a full training load.

“Hurls had a shoulder reconstruction and he’s really at the end of his rehabilitation phase. He’s been training essentially fully with the group except for contact,” Rundle said on Tuesday.

“He’s at the end of his contact progressions now and should be integrating fully with the group within the next week or so.”

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And back in the leadership group too.

 

[Matthew_Lloyd]

Gun

 

[doug85]

Congrats to the big fella.

1st of many AA guernseys.

 

[DapperDon]

All Australian Centre Half Back Bitches!

Well done Hurls on a fantastic season.

 

[IriDiuM]

Never in doubt

 

[VelvetSledge]

Nailed it, great stuff Hurls

 

[eth-dog]

Deserved it.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Superstar.

Jeez this gets forgotten in the whole Carlisle switch to the forward line thing - going the other way - this bloke has become just about the best key back in the land.

 

[raskolnikov]

Congrats Hurls!

 

[yodellinhank]

Move him forward.

 

[yaco55]

Taken his game to a new level in 2015. Reaching AA was always within Hurley's parameters.

 

[calyam]

Well deserved. Had a fantastic year.

 

[Darealrath]

Well deserved. Really enjoy watching him too - so adept at using his body in one on ones to not just nullify but dominate his opponent.

 

[VelvetSledge]

Beast.

 

[Jade]

 

[matty lloyd the champ]

 

[blitzer]

Its been a lousy year but he was an absolute champion for our team this year. His ability to not only beat his man, but then run off him and provide great rebound was sensational. Took basically every forward he played on to school.

 

[Runk]

Class. Heart. Passion. Essendon.

 

[Stopher]

Riewoldt was just a bit of a good player then too

Good stuff Micky!

 

[eth-dog]

Anybody have that clip of him monstering Tredders on debut?

 

[windyhill]

So happy for him. Well done Liz

 

[Doss]

All those people calling him an overrated spud (and there were many three years ago) seem to have gone suspiciously quiet.

They must have run out of spud and are now busy eating polenta ingots or something.

 

[Jade]

All those people calling him an overrated spud (and there were many three years ago) seem to have gone suspiciously quiet.

They must have run out of spud and are now busy eating polenta ingots or something.

They are busy eating my unmentionables.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

The night when you knew he's going to be a star.

 

[Burzum]

Absolute star. Congrats Hurls.

 

[reincarnated]

Well deserved. Taken the monkey off his back...the title 'Over-rated player' is no more. Really happy. The passion he shows for the club is very comforting in these terrible times.