Player Watch #4: Aidan Corr

[Devington]

At the end of the day, all we can ask for is the club's best estimate on when a player will be back. We don't need the nitty gritty.

Again I don't want to come across as a dick, but is that really all we can ask for? and if so why can we ask for even that?

 

[Lomas]

Again I don't want to come across as a dick, but is that really all we can ask for? and if so why can we ask for even that?

Don't think you are being a dick, but we aren't entitled to all the personal details. When someone has to leave work for a period of time, stakeholders don't get a blow for blow account. I don't see why players should be treated differently.

 

[Horace]

I don't want to be a dick Horace, but 3/4 of what happens on here is speculation of one variety or another. I'm pretty sure I understand his gripes, and while I don't feel as strongly about them I also don't see any harm in what he's saying. The topic is arguably a bit more sensitive than most, yes, but I think a lot of us would indeed prefer if there had been more communication regarding this long running injury/illness saga.

Personally I think clubs lie, to varying degrees, all the time to the public. I don't think it is the case right now, but I'd bet hard money that at some stage or another the club has lied to us about a player's injury. Whether that be how it (or a setback) was suffered, the severity of it, or even just outright fabricating an injury to cover for something else.

Well personally I think it is a bit much to be speculating that he is on a third strike for (presumably illicit) drug use and the club and the AFL are hushing it up.

Not to mention suggesting that Hurley's situation doesn't add up.

And while it is a different situation, going back in time I have witnessed first hand some truly baffling infections, unable to be cured easily and quickly, in dairy and beef cattle, despite the very best efforts of some first class vets. Nothing surprises me when it comes to mystery infections.

 

[hilly]

I'd push Aidan out of the room, get the other three, bend them all over, and I'd do the drummer, the lead singer, and that one who plays violin.

 

[Devington]

Don't think you are being a dick, but we aren't entitled to all the personal details. When someone has to leave work for a period of time, stakeholders don't get a blow for blow account. I don't see why players should be treated differently.

We almost always get more information that just "we expect X to be back in Y time" though. Club's pick and choose how much detail they go into with certain players/injuries and IMO that really muddies the water as to how much we "should" know. Frankly I have no idea where the line is, and if the line is supposed to be giving us just the very barebones info (type of injury and expected time out) then the line isn't worth much when they routinely step over it of their own volition.

Well personally I think it is a bit much to be speculating that he is on a third strike for (presumably illicit) drug use and the club and the AFL are hushing it up.

Not to mention suggesting that Hurley's situation doesn't add up.

And while it is a different situation, going back in time I have witnessed first hand some truly baffling infections, unable to be cured easily and quickly, in dairy and beef cattle, despite the very best efforts of some first class vets. Nothing surprises me when it comes to mystery infections.

Might not be drug issues. Mental health, police investigations, dealing with very personal and private family situations. There are plenty of reasons clubs would, and have, lied and covered for players IMO. Again I don't think this is the case here, but I also don't think Tas has been particularly out of line. It's not like he's outright saying he thinks Corr is a drug fiend and the club is covering for him, he just seems to think there is more to the story and that we perhaps have a right to know about it.

 

[Lomas]

We almost always get more information that just "we expect X to be back in Y time" though. Club's pick and choose how much detail they go into with certain players/injuries and IMO that really muddies the water as to how much we "should" know. Frankly I have no idea where the line is, and if the line is supposed to be giving us just the very barebones info (type of injury and expected time out) then the line isn't worth much when they routinely step over it of their own volition.


Might not be drug issues. Mental health, police investigations, dealing with very personal and private family situations. There are plenty of reasons clubs would, and have, lied and covered for players IMO. Again I don't think this is the case here, but I also don't think Tas has been particularly out of line. It's not like he's outright saying he thinks Corr is a drug fiend and the club is covering for him, he just seems to think there is more to the story and that we perhaps have a right to know about it.

I'm not here to debate Tas's posts. I've expressed my opinion, but I don't think that it is useful to go down a rabbit hole about players' injuries.

 

[Devington]

I'm not here to debate Tas's posts. I've expressed my opinion, but I don't think that it is useful to go down a rabbit hole about players' injuries.

Fair enough, I'm happy to leave it there.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Unbelievable when you consider the amount of infectious disease specialists we have, comfortably the highest ratio of doctor per capita of any club

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I have a degree in microbiology, work in sterilising and am at uni to become a nurse.

My time to shine.

 

[mighty mick]

Been reading through this and it's quite annoying that people.
1: expect more information.
2: want to know what's going on in-depth.
3: when will he be back.

As someone who's gone through a variety of infections, which one, is a very broad term for an illness because of the varieties of causes of infection out there.

An infection is not just give someone antibiotics and it's over, it's like an old school PC Game each step has to be solved in order, unfortunately the longer it takes to find the exact cause and correct treatment, the patient can get worse.

As has been mentioned there are some innocuous accidents like cutting a foot on Coral which can go on for months. It doesn't matter if your superman, weight and muscle loss can be severe, not to mention the side effects of some medication used to combat it. So to the conspiracy theorists and all the possible causes of Aidan Corrs absence can we just leave this one alone.

I've been one of the people angry at the club for pushing back recovery dates on injuries, but as I said infection is such a broad term that ranges from the simple to the extreme, give it time and give him space.

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[shinboner magic]

 

[Colbys Boots]

I'd push Aidan out of the room, get the other three, bend them all over, and I'd do the drummer, the lead singer, and that one who plays violin.

Suddenly... the incurable infection is starting to make sense.

 

[StiffArm]

For the infection theory, a course of antibiotics is 7-14 days, lets say it is the full 14 days because it didn't work...

He got injured round 1, he played round 2 but missed after that. He was diagnosed with turf toe, which is like a sprain. You typically can't get an infection from a sprain because it required an open wound, a lot of people have some really funky forms of bacteria in their groin region, under their arm, etc. These can live their for a long period of time, only become problematic when the skin breaks. Club said he got the infection from cracked skin on his foot and is not related to the toe. So the toe is off the hook.

Was first reported by the club on April 1st that he has an infection, club said it was healing well on 1st of April.
Club reported on 18th May that new medication that the first treatment wasn't working. So with anything that has become resistant they would have gone to one of the heavy-hitting antibacterial treatments, depending on which bacteria he allegedly has.

This sh*t either works or it doesn't, there is no point being on it for 3 months, if it isn't done in two weeks you are never going to treat it with what you are giving them.

For it to be almost the end of June and no complete recovery is bullshit. After this period of time he would probably be in hospital, if not missing a leg by now.

The club is more than likely lying to us and the AFL would know about it. They still have him down as a toe injury and we can write that off as some early piece of bullshit.

The sinopsis of this is "well I'VE never come across a bacterial infection that isn't fixed in 14 days and therefore it can't exist"

What utter tripe.

I guess 'antibiotic resistant bacteria' is just a phrase doctors use to make themselves look clever.

 

[Kangaroos techno]

I agree with Devington on this one, if it were up to Horace bigfooty would just be North's youtube page.

It's subjective. Let tas speculate if he wants.

 

[Devington]

I agree with Devington on this one

Oh no, I've made a horrible mistake

 

[Horace]

I agree with Devington on this one, if it were up to Horace bigfooty would just be North's youtube page.

It's subjective. Let tas speculate if he wants.

A rather spectacular extrapolation that one.

 

[Shermanator]

Where are you Aidan?, we need you..

 

[Billy Not Really]

Did we even acquire this bloke? Does he exist or did I dream that.

 

[Horizons_00]

He would be in doubt for the rest of his career if he can’t address this infection

Must be really bad.

 

[gokangas]

Forget him this year. Sadly.

 

[Hazey1977]

Forget him this year. Sadly.

Is that the official update?

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[Grogg]

Is that the official update?

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AFL website has him as a thumb.

2 weeks.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

Is that the official update?

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Yeah, apparently the club has been lying to us and he's had a 3rd strike.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Forget him this year. Sadly.

Craziness.

 

[Lomas]

Yeah, apparently the club has been lying to us and he's had a 3rd strike.

Nah, then it would read 'Kangaroos go all in on drug addled lost Corrs'.

 

[gokangas]

Is that the official update?

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Just what I am told. I hear the infection has really knocked him about. Even if he makes it back we can't expect much this year. Not official - just what I hear on the grapevine.