AFL Player # 2: Sam Draper

[Dave]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 20, TheUnicorn

 

[Beerfish]

That’s bad...8-12 weeks

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

Has a "high ankle" according to the presser which is code for that damned syndesmosis thing again.

It's pretty cool to think we're part of an exclusive group of people who know what the word syndesmosis means and how to spell it, only because we've been reading it regularly in the injury reports for the last 3 years

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Just repeating here... Jon Ralph on Fox Footy just reporting both Shiel (knee) and Draper (syndesmosis) are likely 12-14 week injuries.

Getting back, getting match fit... you’re getting toward largely being able to write the season off for both.

2021 season can already get in the *in bin.

 

[Megabattimus]

 

[rumply]

******* ****

 

[JT_the_Man]

Club injury update saying 8-10 weeks.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

ACL into syndesmosis

feel rat s**t for him.

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Good to see the boys are close but maybe Hind and Draper are a little too close?

(From Drapers IG)

 

[Old Campaigner]

I didn’t think you were supposed to drink while rehabbing an injury.

Also McGrath looks stoned as *

 

[JayJ20]

I will think he re-injured himself every time this thread is bumped until he plays.

 

[andleanback]

I didn’t think you were supposed to drink while rehabbing an injury.

Also McGrath looks stoned as fu**

So if you do an acl you can’t drink for 12 months?

 

[Old Campaigner]

So if you do an acl you can’t drink for 12 months?

Not sure if they're as stringent on really long term layoffs but I distinctly recall a couple of players getting club sanctions years ago for getting caught drinking while injured.

 

[andleanback]

Not sure if they're as stringent on really long term layoffs but I distinctly recall a couple of players getting club sanctions years ago for getting caught drinking while injured.

Yeah I’m not sure if those rules are still in place, especially for a guy whose going to be out long term.

 

[ghostdog]

2 weeks gone. 6 -8 to go.

 

[Lore]

Got some proof of life in the training gallery today. Still in the moon boot...

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Got some proof of life in the training gallery today. Still in the moon boot...

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He wears it so well.

 

[fairbump_playon]

He wears it so well.

aggressively

 

[Beerfish]

He's so dreamy

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

He's so dreamy

 

[The Prosecutor]

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Draper, raper, taper, amalgamator

 

[Lore]

Running and increasing workloads.

Essendon ruckman Sam Draper has continued his positive rehabilitation from a syndesmosis injury suffered in round two.

The 205cm tall, who started 2021 as the Dons’ first-choice big man, sustained the severe ankle injury in the Bombers’ loss to Port Adelaide.

Head of high performance Sean Murphy said the 22-year-old had reached another major step in his rehabilitation, with Draper now running and increasing his workload.

“’Drapes’ is back running now and getting some volume into the legs,” Murphy told Dons Digital’s Liberty Financial Performance Update.

“He’s ticking all the boxes. The last couple of weeks, he’s been on a nice trajectory, so we’ll continue to build him up.”

Injury news: Draper progressing, Waterman available

Get the latest injury news on Sam Draper, Alec Waterman, Zach Reid and more ahead of round nine.

www.essendonfc.com.au

 

[BrunoV]

Seems to be the good things about the syndesmosis.

It seems like the fracture is clean and it seems to repair well (even it's painful and results in a long lay off).

 

[blitzer]

Sounds like he's on for a return after after the bye with maybe a slight chance to be available for Richmond prior to the bye.
That said I don't think he's so far above Phillips and Bryan that he should come straight back in after missing 10 weeks without a VFL game. Plus I'd be worried about his chance of reinjury.

 

[Lore]

Hasn't had his first win for the club yet, if you can believe it. The day he gets his gatorade shower will be one worth watching I think.

 

[eth-dog]

Could be back for Dreamtime? If I've worked that short/medium/long term stuff we put on the injury list.