It’s not, I’m just being facetious.
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It’s not, I’m just being facetious.
Strahany
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Soooooooooo, what's the go hear? King heading in for his 3rd surgery this year. Phillipou out injured and Dave Misson gives an interview saying the Plantaris is not a serious injury, you don't even NEED that tendon and basically says it's no big deal. Now he's out again with more issues related to his Plantaris.
Young Saint learns extent of latest injury setback
Mattaes Phillipou has had scans on his latest calf injurywww.afl.com.au
What the **** are we doing?
Our injury management isn’t great, but this article is steaming hot garbage.
“Scans on Sunday ruled out calf tendon damage or anything related to his Achilles…”
The Achilles is the distal “calf tendon”. I’m being nitpicky, but you will rarely see an injury to the proximal gastrocnemius tendon, and injuries to the soleus aponeurosis are not really swept up in the typical classification of a tendon injury. So, in reality, the low-tier journalist has effectively said that there’s no injury to the Achilles or the Achilles.
“Phillipou experienced issues with his plantaris tendon ahead of the trip to Alice Springs and then sustained a full rupture in the opening minutes of the win over Melbourne at TIO Traeger Park.”
Mattaes absolutely did not “rupture” his plantaris tendon against Melbourne. If he did, he wouldn’t be able to re-injure it as it wouldn’t be attached in any way such that it could be injured; a rupture means loss of continuity and therefore can’t be injured further. He either re-aggravated his plantaris in the Collingwood warm up, or he ruptured it against Melbourne; both are claimed in the article yet are mutually exclusive, unless the Saints have developed a way to magically heal significant soft tissue injuries in a fortnight.
I don’t expect them to write like they have a medical degree, but they’re not even doing the bare minimum. LLMs would write more accurate information, even with all of their hallucinations, so I fail to see how crap like this can be served up to justify their job.
I tell you what, I'll stack my evidence right beside your evidence that RTB is a dinosaur stuck in the eighties that is influencing our entire coaching and medical staff negatively.......is that a deal.......
And if you want evidence of RTB leaving the medical guys to do their job, I believe he's become well known for expressing a desire to "let the cobblers cobble".....as evidence goes it's pretty scant, but it certainly trumps your unfounded "feelz"......
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This is the kind of expert knowledge which, to be frank, this forum is sorely lacking. You should have your own Strahany Reacts thread for all our injury stuff! Please post more
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Misson never went to Freo.
He was at the Melbourne Demons and the Sydney Roosters before he returned to St Kilda.
Patty_vanda
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“off legs for several months” wtf - did they just do a knee reconstruction on max ?
You are right, when Lyon went to Freo he went to Demons - I misread.
Dr Spaceman
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So if Max is “off his legs” because he hurt his knee, does that mean Hunter was “off his face” when he had his jaw smashed and Ben Paton “off his ****” when he tore his pecs?
So if Max is “off his legs” because he hurt his knee, does that mean Hunter was “off his face” when he had his jaw smashed and Ben Paton “off his ****” when he tore his pecs?
I can confirm Josh Bruce was regularly off his face when injured back in the day.
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I can’t stand David Misson… reminds me of another Richo and you just tune out. He’s constantly spruiking white noise… another hammy setback in rehab for Dougal.
Fair dinkum, who was the ex-Essendon s&c/physio muppet Misson brought over to the Saints that bombers supporters flagged had a poor record
Fair dinkum, who was the ex-Essendon s&c/physio muppet Misson brought over to the Saints that bombers supporters flagged had a poor record
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SainterinSydney
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Dr Z has been at the Bulldogs since the days University played in the VFL. I doubt he is the main man for injury management at the Dogs over long term.
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My thoughts exactly.
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KingDiamondHead
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Maybe share your insight then, wise one
Just stocktakes the first aid kits apparently.
On the one hand, that's a lot of change. On the other hand, club was pretty much treading water for 10 - 12 years, sooooo, may not necessarily be a bad thing.
