Mitch Brown - Knee Reco

[Merv]

More bad news on the ACL injury front with the Eagles confirming today that Mitch Brown will undergo a knee Reco.

Shocking news as he has shown a lot of talent in his short time in the AFL.

Speedy recovery and let's hope this is the last ACL we see this season.

http://westcoasteagles.com.au/tabid/7155/News/NewsArticle/Default.aspx?newsId=55624

 

[bzparkes]

Great...

 

[bradrowe#32]

Terrible news.

He was one of the youngsters I was keeping an eye on this year.

Hopefully he can get right and still have a good career.

 

[mitchzz]

Im sick of this.... Our bad luck continues.

 

[Pedro]

2 out of the same game then. 5 in 2 weeks. That sux big time

 

[Lockyer24]

WTF is going on - are the grounds getting watered or what?

 

[The Juddernaught]

Spewin

 

[Big Blow Hard]

How many down for the season already? Poor bastards.

Brown, Dick, Haselby, The Sydney guy whos name escapes me, am I missing someone?

 

[hawk-boy]

****ing hell
had big hopes for this guy

 

[-CG-]

5 in 2 weeks. That sux big time

Yep, its very unfortunate, gotta feel for all those guys

 

[-CG-]

How many down for the season already? Poor bastards.

Brown, Dick, Haselby, The Sydney guy whos name escapes me, am I missing someone?

Rhett Biglands

 

[Crimson King]

This just plain sucks.

 

[Big Blow Hard]

All exciting players too, sux balls.

 

[bloods01]

How many down for the season already? Poor bastards.

Brown, Dick, Haselby, The Sydney guy whos name escapes me, am I missing someone?

You're missing Malceski as well. The other Sydney player is Thornton who's from Perth.

Traggic news. He's still young and hopefully he can make it back.

 

[matera_goal]

Terrible news for Mitchell "God" Brown

On the plus side (I find one of those in the worst of situations) another full season in the gym...

MG

 

[micky_11]

this is such bad news, i was looking foward to watching this guy play, such a talent.

i wish him a quick recovery,

poor fella

 

[Forget the Stats]

This is getting a bit worrying. 5 already in 2 weeks of preseason. Its been pretty quiet for a few years with knees. Remember about 6 or 7 years ago when there were a heap in a row,lots at Subi if I remember correctly. Lets hope theres no more.

 

[Geminicatz]

This is getting a bit worrying. 5 already in 2 weeks of preseason. Its been pretty quiet for a few years with knees. Remember about 6 or 7 years ago when there were a heap in a row,lots at Subi if I remember correctly. Lets hope theres no more.

That's number 6 (Brown joins Collingwood’s Brad Dick, the Kangaroos’ Nathan Grima, Fremantle’s Paul Hasleby and Sydney pair Nick Malceski and Kristin Thornton as ACL victims in 2008).

 

[#1 Dogs Fan]

He was one of the youngsters due for a big season. I hope he gets it right and comes back strong.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

bad luck for the poor kid, sympathy to him.

I hope it wasn't because he was so massive for a young KPP hey

 

[Z_K]

bad luck for the poor kid, sympathy to him.

I hope it wasn't because he was so massive for a young KPP hey

Just thinking that. Not sure how he did it exactly, but weighing in at 154 kg's and having 34 foot biceps at 20 years old can't be great for a young blokes knees.

 

[smithos]

good opportunity for JK to strut his stuff

 

[Carn Hawkas]

This is terrible news, another one. Hopefully it's the last.

 

[blue07]

bad news but he was very top heavy..

 

[liz]

That's number 6 (Brown joins Collingwood’s Brad Dick, the Kangaroos’ Nathan Grima, Fremantle’s Paul Hasleby and Sydney pair Nick Malceski and Kristin Thornton as ACL victims in 2008).

And Biglands too.

Not a great start to the year. I think it's particularly sad for the youngsters looking to make their mark. At least someone like Malceski knows he can play good footy and knows his club is going to give him every chance to make a recovery and all the time he needs. And while having had one before may be scant comfort, he at least knows that was successful (it was the other knee).

Brown is probably fine too. West Coast will be patient.

But for players like Grima, who's had a number of injury plagued years, or Dick and Thornton, who would have been hoping this is the year they'd make their breakthrough, they're going to have to go through recovery wondering whether their chance will pass them by.

And then it's different again for Biglands, who knows that this could well spell the end of his career.