Originally posted by RoosterWedgie
All the best in your recovery Josh.
Not trolling but I ask is it time to question Port's medicos?
Track record doesn't look to good with Josh, Primus, Wilson, Lade, Lockwood, etc and I know of one current Power player who's family was considering a law suit against the club becaue of the way his injury was treated poorly/incorrectly when a 2 month injury ended up being a year long injury.
Even Chocko indicated on 5AA that an external medical enquiry wouldn't be out of the question.
You've even got to go as far to say that maybe the medicos at Alberton may have cost Port at least one premiership? No wonder Chocko isn't happy.
That player wouldn't be Damon White would it? The guy who had to have his ankle rebroken because it wasn't set properly in the first place?
A few people have raised these issues now, and it's something you have to wonder. The fitness training and the medicos. Does any club have as many cases of OP as us? Maybe it's just me, but it seems we turn them up all the time, and that's just the ones the club admits to. I still remember the Peter Burgoyne OP revelation as a defence at one of his tribunal hearings a couple of years back. We probably would never have heard about that otherwise.
How many players do we seem to have fall apart late in the year? For the last three years we've either looked flat or copped injuries at the wrong end of the year (or brought back guys who'd fallen over during the year and weren't physically up to playing finals).
Roger James is a classic example. He carries groin pain all year, yet they play him in a game for Norwood, instead of a final for Port! Then when he breaks down, oh well too bad, he just needs rest. He rests for 3 months and he gets no better, oh he needs surgery. Excuse me? This couldn't have been picked up on at least 6 months ago so he would have done the full preseason by now?
Double knee recos for Wilson and Francou. Primus buggered around all last year with some weird injury no one either was willing to, or could, explain. Lade and Lockwood, ok bad luck, can't be helped, but Lockwood was hung onto for way too long in the hope of a miracle cure which didn't exist (sorry KD but for his last 2 years he was a waste of space on that list, talent, intent or not). Hardwick admits he came back too soon too often from his injuries last year ... shouldn't proper fitness testing in a professional club environment prevent that?
And finally Choco and Andrew Russell come out at the end of the season and admit they may have pushed the fitness base too hard last year (I mean after the injuries in 2002 they actually upped the training last year!) and will reign it in, make training more individualised this year. Admittedly they seem to have stopped the hamstring plague of our earlier years but have managed to replace it with another curse.
Interesting to note that what pretty much finished Andrew Russell's athletics career was overtraining after injury in an attempt to get up to speed for international qualifying.