Ottens Rotten Finger Scare!

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ROTTEN FINGER

Brad Ottens Saturday, December 31
Sarah Bieske

GEELONG'S injury woes look set to continue into the new year with news that Brad Ottens' troublesome left ring finger has become re-infected.
Cats' football manager Garry Davidson yesterday confirmed that Ottens' finger was infected for the second time since he had surgery on it late last season.
The key forward was already recovering from a serious groin tear but has had his pre-season further hampered by this latest finger drama.
It has prompted fears among the Cats' camp that Ottens' marking ability and ball-handling may be permanently affected.
It is believed the club and Ottens have considered amputation of the finger as a solution if things don't improve by the start of the season.
Although Davidson would not speculate on the severity of the problem, he conceded it was a worry.
``He's had an infection and it's happened a couple of times now so we are concerned by it, obviously,'' Davidson said.
Although only a remote possibility, if Ottens was to have the finger amputated he would follow a similar path to West Coast tagger Daniel Chick, who has been able to play on despite having part of his ring finger removed in 2002.
Ottens' finger injury was kept secret as the 25-year-old battled soreness throughout the latter part of last season.
Davidson said Ottens eventually had surgery on it after he went down with the groin tear against Melbourne in round 20, only to suffer another setback when the finger became infected in November and then again this month.
The re-infection is a sudden blow to the Cats as they try to rehabilitate their star 202cm forward back to health for the start of the AFL season in three month's time.
Davidson said Ottens was otherwise progressing well in his recovery from the groin tear but was unsure when he would return to normal training with the main group.
``He is running already so we'll wait to see how he progresses with that before the medical team make a decision,'' he said.
``It's a step by step thing and it was always going to take some time so we won't be rushing him back.''
If Ottens does recover in time, he would still be unlikely to see much action in Geelong's NAB Cup campaign starting on February 25 against Carlton.
Even though Ottens was sidelined for seven games altogether with the groin complaint last season, the 2001 All-Australian still played a key role for the Cats in his first year at Skilled Stadium.
He kicked 23 goals from 15 games to finish 16th in Geelong's best and fairest after crossing over from Richmond at the end of last year.


another setback for the big man! argh! this is crap! :thumbsdown:
 

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IMHO its just another puke story from teh Addy. Having a look through theere is nothing confirmed by the GFC that this will actually happen... Infact its just saying the last resort is to give the finger the chop. Rest assured i bet the GFC are ontop of it and this so called amputation wont even happen.
 

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if a localised infection in such a small area of the body (ring finger) persists, then the real fear is that Ottens has acquired an antibiotic resistant strain of bacteria. If something isn't done about it VERY soon (eg: aggressive course of IV Vancomycin or, as last resort, amputation) then the possibility of the infection spreading into the blood becomes a life threatening issue.

as far as richmond fans go, they should be thinking more about NG Brown's alleged difficult rehab than B Ottens.
 

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Ah, so this is what all those rumours were about during the year, everyone got King mixed up with Ring.
 

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It's unfortunate, as I was looking forward to seeing Otto have a good pre-season, but there's nothing much he can do about it so I guess he's just got to keep working as hard as he can to be right.
 
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This fella has had rotten luck in his career, hasn't he?

I wish him a speedy recovery, because he'll be an integral part in Geelong's chances for a premiership.
 

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This fella has had rotten luck in his career, hasn't he?

I wish him a speedy recovery, because he'll be an integral part in Geelong's chances for a premiership.
You have certainly changed your tone from the RFC board thread about ottens :cool:
 

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What is it with infections after surgeries for Geelong big men?
Probably having surgery at Geelong Hospital. I've know 2 people that have had surgery at Geelong and have had different staf infections.

I may be wrong and Ottens might have had surgery in melbourne but it is a risk you run with any surgery in any hospital.

As LifeSpan-Void has suggested Ottens should be on Vancomycin if he hasn't been treated with it already.
 

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I was at training too carn the cattas, where were you, I hope you didnt see me get very embarrassed when otto was coming off the ground. Those women there (that i used to know) my god. I didnt know what to say to brad, so i moved onto the other side of the race, haha.
 
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He'll be alright, simple as that. Hes a vital player to the list and he will be a big loss but we have the list that can make up for it, we just have to hope that Steven King doesnt go down either, thats when we worry, but Ottens will be alright
 

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He'll be alright, simple as that. Hes a vital player to the list and he will be a big loss but we have the list that can make up for it, we just have to hope that Steven King doesnt go down either, thats when we worry, but Ottens will be alright
People say he is training fine without any trouble at all. And i don't think we actually do have the list to make up for it, not experience wise anyway. I would hate to see him go out for an extended period of time. You could tell how much it hurt our forward structure last eyar when he was missing in action
 

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Costa was on SEN tonight.
They asked him to pick out someone who was training well.

He picked Ottens. Said the paw is coming along fine.
Also said the docs are extremely happy with Varcoe.
 

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I just caught the end of it.
He was mostly talking about the tv rights.

Talked a bit about training at the end.
Also said Prismal is looking the goods.
 

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I just caught the end of it.
He was mostly talking about the tv rights.

Talked a bit about training at the end.
Also said Prismal is looking the goods.
gfc com has an article saying Prismall started preseason much earlier than everyone else. Would be interested to see him get a run in the NAB cup.
 
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