Injury Jared Rivers - ankle

[Stig_90]

Any early word on this? He would be a big loss with all the Hawks tall forwards roaming around next week.

 

[Sttew]

Any early word on this? He would be a big loss with all the Hawks tall forwards roaming around next week.

Doc Larkins said subbed out as precaution.

 

[geelong_crazy26]

Doc Larkins said subbed out as precaution.

We need him for hawthorn, given they have roughheAd franklin and gunston as well as a resting hale, we need the three talls

 

[JUBJUB]

Did he do that injury when Schulz slid in and took his feet from under him,yet the free went against Rivers ?
It was close to 3/4 qtr time

 

[Turkey Tom]

Chris Scott mentions the injury in the after match press conference. Basically said he could of played on, but may have done further damage if he did, so decided to be cautious.

 

[RegHickeyStand]

Did he do that injury when Schulz slid in and took his feet from under him,yet the free went against Rivers ?
It was close to 3/4 qtr time

The AFL are currently producing a small weekly gazette citing which rules will be enforced on which week.

 

[And_ROOS]

Did he do that injury when Schulz slid in and took his feet from under him,yet the free went against Rivers ?
It was close to 3/4 qtr time

Yup thats the one. You know that rule they brought in to prevent injuries to players legs from sliding players? Yup apparently that is still a rule as long as its not helping Geelong (20 mins or so earlier we gave away a free kick for that rule when the Port player ran into a Geelong player on the ground, THUMBS UP AFL YOU F**KTARDS).

 

[Lester Burnham]

Yup thats the one. You know that rule they brought in to prevent injuries to players legs from sliding players? Yup apparently that is still a rule as long as its not helping Geelong (20 mins or so earlier we gave away a free kick for that rule when the Port player ran into a Geelong player on the ground, THUMBS UP AFL YOU F**KTARDS).

Watching the replay, with the knowledge that we would win the game, it did provide a comedy moment. Rivers in a very high pitched voice asking the umpire "what was that for"?

Hopefully he'll be right. I reckon we were going to take a tall off for the sub anyway. But when the club tells us it was just a precaution it could mean anything between he's cherry ripe, to needs surgery and a year out.

 

[donbooger]

That free kick infuriated me, its hard to blame the umpires though, it must be the hardest rule to enforce ever made as the difference between head high on one player as opposed to sliding in from the other is a matter of inches.

 

[And_ROOS]

Wouldnt be laughing if he broke his leg. Imagine the f**king rule was brought in for that, Rivers breaks a leg and the free goes against him *slow clap AFL*

 

[dazbroncos]

Did he do that injury when Schulz slid in and took his feet from under him,yet the free went against Rivers ?
It was close to 3/4 qtr time

That was my understanding. When HE got the free against him for having HIS legs taken out....

Go Catters

 

[Sttew]

That free kick infuriated me, its hard to blame the umpires though, it must be the hardest rule to enforce ever made as the difference between head high on one player as opposed to sliding in from the other is a matter of inches.

Umpire McInerney knew he stuffed up, but no umpire is going to lose face by reversing a decision. So what does he do? Square up later, which McInerney did

 

[jim boy]

The AFL are currently producing a small weekly gazette citing which rules will be enforced on which week.

small???

 

[ATSAM]

Rivers seemed to be walking ok at the VFL game yesterday

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Hopefully he'll play.

Honestly it was a joke that Schultz injured him by diving into him and Riv got the free paid against him.

I went to the game with a neutral friend who is a Swans supporter, and he was more annoyed about it than I was. We both thought it was an awful decision.

 

[Jimmy Yamazaki]

Rivers has pulled up well and will be right to go according to Cats medical room. Good stuff.

 

[Skerret]

Good, he's become structurally important and allows Mackie to roam more than he might otherwise do.

 

[vinum coupe]

Someone was knocking him after the game.
I thought his work rate right up the wing was good.

I'm heading to the dees board actually.

 

[Catsmaninamerica]

He's a massive inclusion and will be a big reason we beat them on Friday. Cant wait for this!

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Snelling's comments in the medical report could be construed as a subtle slap:

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-09-17/enright-on-track-for-miracle-recovery

"He was pretty fortunate to be honest," Snelling explained. "It looked pretty horrible. He could've done some pretty severe damage."

You can imagine the outrage if Rivers had to miss this week, or worse still, had some 'severe damage'. It's a farcical 'Harry O'Brien getting reported for high contact' situation. But, in fairness to the umpire, my very first reaction watching the play at the ground was that it was a free kick against Rivers. It was only after the replay that I did a double take and thought that under the new interpretation, the free kick should have been paid to Rivers. You're asking people to change (reverse) the way they instinctively react to an incident that they would have seen hundreds of times at footy games over many years. But the shit is going to hit the fan when there is a similar incident to the Rivers/Schulz one, the wrong guy gets the free kick paid against him (according to the new rules) and cops a serious injury to boot.

 

[David the Cat]

Someone was knocking him after the game.
I thought his work rate right up the wing was good.

I'm heading to the dees board actually.

Probably the game day thread on the cats board. When we were losing they had delisted 10 players...and sacked the rest, bar Blicavs...honestly....the majority were just plain muppets.

Maybe its kiddies hour when those guys are on.....

 

[vinum coupe]

Well, the suggestion on the Dees board is that he has towelled up Roughhead a bunch of times.
If that's true then there's a fair bit of flexibility this week.

 

[you rippa]

Well, the suggestion on the Dees board is that he has towelled up Roughhead a bunch of times.
If that's true then there's a fair bit of flexibility this week.

Roughead is a completely different player this year while Rivers has been battling injuries since joining Geelong so not sure it's as flexible as you suggest.

 

[bulletproof]

I reckon Rivers will play well this week, he has had enough games back now. I think he is a player with a strong mentality. He will be one of the hungriest players on the pitch this weekend.

I quite like the idea of him spending some time on Roughead.

Remembering we lost the 08 Grand Final, partly because Scarlett was occupied with Franklin, freeing Taylor up, to be the third man up could be a very useful tool indeed.

 

[fpm84]

I reckon Rivers will play well this week, he has had enough games back now. I think he is a player with a strong mentality. He will be one of the hungriest players on the pitch this weekend.

I quite like the idea of him spending some time on Roughead.

Remembering we lost the 08 Grand Final, partly because Scarlett was occupied with Franklin, freeing Taylor up, to be the third man up could be a very useful tool indeed.

I think he'll play, too - gives us the flexibility to put him or Taylor forward for parts of the game, too.

People forget Rivers played forward a bit at Melbourne last year with some success. He kicked 13 goals between rounds 11-22 in a team that got smashed almost every week. Could be something up our sleeve to try on Friday night.