Fevola struggling with knee pain
AAP - Tuesday March 27, 7:09 PM
Carlton star forward Brendan Fevola has admitted he is struggling with a mystery knee injury days out from the start of the AFL season.
Fevola, the reigning Coleman medallist, who was in excellent form during the Blues' successful pre-season campaign, visited a specialist for a consultation on Tuesday.
But he said the visit had not cleared up the nature of the injury, which has affected him since he landed awkwardly during the NAB Cup grand final on March 17.
"He (the specialist) is not quite sure either but he just put me on these tablets and hopefully it goes away," Fevola told the Nine Network.
The full-forward had to leave the training track early on Monday after experiencing pain in the knee.
He said scans had failed to reveal the source of the pain.
"It was sort of concerning because the MRIs (showed) nothing," he said.
"I knew there was something wrong with it."
At this stage he is expected to play in Sunday's round one match against Richmond, but if the knee does not improve, arthroscopic surgery could be an option in future weeks.
"Hopefully I'll just tape it up and hopefully it just goes away in the next couple of weeks," he said.
Carlton's football operations manager Steven Icke said the club expected Fevola to play against the Tigers and the visit to the specialist was purely precautionary.
"There's no change to when we walked away from training yesterday evening," Icke said.
"There's nothing to suggest (he won't play)."
Fevola's injury is further bad news for Carlton, which will already be missing former skipper Anthony Koutoufides for up to 10 weeks with a finger injury.
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So it was that NAB cup incident which did the damage. Hopefully it's nothing major and he'll be right - losing him now is horrible timing. We've got to continue our NAB cup form - if its a repeat of 2005 it'd be detrimental to the confidence of our playing group.
AAP - Tuesday March 27, 7:09 PM
Carlton star forward Brendan Fevola has admitted he is struggling with a mystery knee injury days out from the start of the AFL season.
Fevola, the reigning Coleman medallist, who was in excellent form during the Blues' successful pre-season campaign, visited a specialist for a consultation on Tuesday.
But he said the visit had not cleared up the nature of the injury, which has affected him since he landed awkwardly during the NAB Cup grand final on March 17.
"He (the specialist) is not quite sure either but he just put me on these tablets and hopefully it goes away," Fevola told the Nine Network.
The full-forward had to leave the training track early on Monday after experiencing pain in the knee.
He said scans had failed to reveal the source of the pain.
"It was sort of concerning because the MRIs (showed) nothing," he said.
"I knew there was something wrong with it."
At this stage he is expected to play in Sunday's round one match against Richmond, but if the knee does not improve, arthroscopic surgery could be an option in future weeks.
"Hopefully I'll just tape it up and hopefully it just goes away in the next couple of weeks," he said.
Carlton's football operations manager Steven Icke said the club expected Fevola to play against the Tigers and the visit to the specialist was purely precautionary.
"There's no change to when we walked away from training yesterday evening," Icke said.
"There's nothing to suggest (he won't play)."
Fevola's injury is further bad news for Carlton, which will already be missing former skipper Anthony Koutoufides for up to 10 weeks with a finger injury.
http://au.sports.yahoo.com/060719/2/t37m.html
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So it was that NAB cup incident which did the damage. Hopefully it's nothing major and he'll be right - losing him now is horrible timing. We've got to continue our NAB cup form - if its a repeat of 2005 it'd be detrimental to the confidence of our playing group.
