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Anyone know whether there is any truth to this?? apparently it was on the news?
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Rivers Injured?
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HighRoller said:
Channel 7 news doesn't count...
I think they might've confused him with Fergo, either way the club will keep it quiet. We'll know for sure at 5:10 pm Sunday.
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Melbourne's star young defender Jared Rivers has been sidelined by a fracture in his hand, and will miss the Demons' Wizard Home Loans Cup quarter final against Carlton this Sunday.
The 2004 National Rising Star winner was diagnosed with the fracture after being x-rayed following Melbourne's 45-point defeat of Brisbane in Cairns last Saturday when he was among the Demons' best players.
Rivers, 20, completed some training with his teammates at Sandringham Oval on Tuesday morning, but wore a bandage over his injured right hand.
The club described the injury as a small fracture that would require a week's layoff.
Meanwhile, Melbourne will interview a third candidate before deciding whether to add a former senior footballer to its list following the death of defender Troy Broadbridge in the December Asian tsunami.
Former Bomber and Tiger midfielder Justin Blumfield and ex-Hawk defender Kris Barlow have already been interviewed by the club, and though coach Neale Daniher wouldn't confirm it on Tuesday, it's widely believed the third candidate is recently-delisted Hawk utility Adrian Cox.
"We had a chat to Kris and Justin. We'll have a chat to maybe one other and we'll just go through a process probably of having a look at them, getting them medically assessed and hopefully get a look at them on the track," Daniher said.
Daniher said the club wasn't favouring any type of player, but the decision needs to be made within four weeks, prior to opening round of the home-and-away series.
"We'd like to do it as quickly as we can and with that, the decision may be that we don't take anyone."
"It could be that we've decided that we may want to just keep promoting our younger players. It might be a financial consideration as well, we're not flush with funds at the moment."
That the delisted players had not done an AFL pre-season was a disadvantage that could be overcome, according to Daniher.
The 2004 National Rising Star winner was diagnosed with the fracture after being x-rayed following Melbourne's 45-point defeat of Brisbane in Cairns last Saturday when he was among the Demons' best players.
Rivers, 20, completed some training with his teammates at Sandringham Oval on Tuesday morning, but wore a bandage over his injured right hand.
The club described the injury as a small fracture that would require a week's layoff.
Meanwhile, Melbourne will interview a third candidate before deciding whether to add a former senior footballer to its list following the death of defender Troy Broadbridge in the December Asian tsunami.
Former Bomber and Tiger midfielder Justin Blumfield and ex-Hawk defender Kris Barlow have already been interviewed by the club, and though coach Neale Daniher wouldn't confirm it on Tuesday, it's widely believed the third candidate is recently-delisted Hawk utility Adrian Cox.
"We had a chat to Kris and Justin. We'll have a chat to maybe one other and we'll just go through a process probably of having a look at them, getting them medically assessed and hopefully get a look at them on the track," Daniher said.
Daniher said the club wasn't favouring any type of player, but the decision needs to be made within four weeks, prior to opening round of the home-and-away series.
"We'd like to do it as quickly as we can and with that, the decision may be that we don't take anyone."
"It could be that we've decided that we may want to just keep promoting our younger players. It might be a financial consideration as well, we're not flush with funds at the moment."
That the delisted players had not done an AFL pre-season was a disadvantage that could be overcome, according to Daniher.
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Blues minus captain Koutoufides and vice-captain Camporeale. The Dees can manage Rivers loss pretty easily.
Demon ADI said:
Still think that? The Blues fans seemed confident we could cover Jared but I was pretty sure we wouldn't. I never would've guessed Bell at Full Back, he's no key postion player.
In the end they stretched us pretty easily I thought & their delivery was pin-point. Our forward line was crowded & directionless, the delivery was poor.
We were lucky it wasn't 10 goals, they were hungrier all night.
