Official Club Stuff Libba knee injury - 2015 season over

[yyou]

horrible news
wishing him a fast and full recovery

 

[Bemoreboyddog]

At least the pain of not knowing is gone now.

 

[Maddog1980]

It's done now so we need to move on. Presents a significant opportunity for another player/s to fill the 90% game time week in the midfield.

I think the majority of Libba's game time will be filled by Walis, Prudden and hopefully Clay who in my view are the best placed players to fill the clearance and tackle counts that Libba drove for us in 2014.

I see the below as our midfield rotation options for the year.

Inside: Wallis, Prudden, Clay, Picken, Moyd

Inside/Outside: Dahl, Bonti, Stringer, Honeychurch, Koby, Caleb, Jongy

Outside: Macrae, Hrovat, McLean, Grant

 

[fargy]

Gagf

 

[Dancing Dougy]

Devastated

I have faith he'll come back strongly next year, but what a bloody kick in the guts. Poor Libba.

I'm gutted for him. Has worked his ass off to get himself right, regain the respect of his team mates, the club and the wider footy community, and then this. I really feel for him, just terrible news. But if anyone can get through it bigger, better and stronger, Libba can... with Clay a close 2nd!

 

[DonsRule]

Best of luck to Libba on his recovery. Horrible news.

 

[Zgope1]

Poor kid. It's happened to murphy, griffen and selwood though. And Robbie gray. And Libbas up there with 3 out of those 4 characters. He'll be right.

Development year for us. We'll be right

 

[iBeng]

Horrible news guys, can understand what you're going through...Worse though that it happened in a game that was essentially meaningless. He'll bounce back next season, hopefully with a decent traditional one and be set for Round 1 like Rich is for us!

 

[charcoalchicken]

man are we going to suck this season

 

[Jevy]

2 guns out of the season already... that's Shiite.
For the sake of good footy, we need quality players on the park. But how the hell will you ever stop an injury occurring when it appears he did little wrong in that manoeuvre. Maybe its a strength and conditioning issue around the knee prior to the action.

Dya think those players that slip over from wearing short stops actually have the right idea? I mean long sprigs will always plant the foot hard in the ground, transferring all stress to the ankle and knee.

Either way, we don't want to continue losing guns at this rate, or the spectacle of footy will suffer.

 

[Super Hans]

This sucks, but what can you do. Hope Libba has a good recovery and enjoys some morphine in the process.

 

[Doggies7]

Anyone know how long Hrovat's rib /lung injury is likely to keep him out?

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Who's Tom Browne?

Is there an ACL club?

Thanks, Ryan Griffen, now see what you've done.

 

[Aldo]

Absolutely terrible news. Here's some positives though:

• Libba has shown in the past that he takes setbacks and turns them around big time. Given the guy's character, I have no doubt that as a result of this he is going to turn himself into a beast after this incident.
• He's going to be cheap as chips in SuperCoach in 2016.

 

[DylanW]

Hopefully his old man can give him a few pointers about recovering quickly

 

[Jojay]

Shithouse news...

Hope he comes back bigger and better for you guys. If his dad is anything to go by, I'm sure he will.

 

[wian]

what gets me is that it looked like a "Nothing" incident - It really didnt look that bad...

Just heartbreaking

 

[fred cook]

It is all Tom Williams fault Not only was he injury prone all his career he signs up Libba to be his manager and look what happens

 

[Devington]

Condolences guys. Him and Murphy are my favourite doggies players, it sucks for the entire competition that Libba will be out for the year.

 

[yornup]

It feels like we've been kicked in the head just as we've started to get back up off the canvas. Terrible. Wish Libba all the best with his recovery.

On a side note, who's now going to get the task of belting Griff in Round 9? Will Clay be back by then? Or does Redpath get sent into the square for the opening bounce?

 

[TempleKelvington]

I think I'm alone, but while I'm gutted for Libber after putting in the hard yards all preseason and just about to enter his prime as far as the team goes I don't think it will make that much difference this year. It was always going to be a hard year for us anyway.

It would be a different story if we were genuinely looking at top 6 but realistically we are an outside chance at best to scrape into the 8. It will give an opportunity to someone else or maybe a couple of guys. I thought Wallis was going to bloom this year anyway and yesterday showed his metal when Libber was out, he will step up I feel sure and like I have said before we have a ready made mid in Goodes, who despite the detractors is very good player, in many ways not unlike Libber including the cak footedness.

 

[AFDogs]

Worst off-season ever.

 

[AFDogs]

On a side note, who's now going to get the task of belting Griff in Round 9? Will Clay be back by then? Or does Redpath get sent into the square for the opening bounce?

Picken.

 

[Leigh Lowther]

Terrible news. Hoping his recovery goes well.

If theres anything positive to take away from this I hope this gives the doggies a stronger resolve to show how competitive they can be, even if they have to pick up the workload that Libba has left. We all know the dogs are still nowhere near short of talent.

 

[Bulldog1954]

Let's hope it's a clean tear. I've torn my ACL and long term the ACL has been fine. It's the damage I did to my meniscus that has had lasting effects (hobbling around after sitting down for to long, post match pain etc). Hoping his meniscus is stable and doesn't have to be repaired / shaved / removed.

Going forward I would argue we now have the leagues worst midfield and the leagues worst top five players group (maybe melbourne?). We desperately need even contributions and guys like Bonty and Macrae to become elite as soon as possible. It's going to be a really long year