Robert Warnock

[Blu3_Boy]

CARLTON recruit Robert Warnock will have his pre-season further delayed by ankle surgery.
The former Fremantle Docker carried the injury during the year, but Carlton's medical team have decided he needs surgery to get through his first season at the Blues.
Warnock, 21, had shoulder surgery on August 1, which had already delayed his first pre-season in Victoria.
The 206cm ruckman is likely to be sidelined for a month.
Carlton said yesterday it was determined not to rush a recruit it sees as a 10-year player at the club.



http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24653671-19762,00.html?from=public_rss

 

[4blues]

Not the best way to start at your new club, hope his luck changes.

 

[Jeremias]

Unfortunate, but not that big a deal in the scheme of things.

He'll still be able to participate in a fair chunk of preseason training to get his fitness levels out before the season.

 

[Blue Dawn]

Get him right, we can wait. He'll be around for a while - so long as he's smashing that weights room.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Which foot?

If it is the leg he jumps from, it will be significant.

 

[Dustyjackman]

Freakin' fragile this fella'

 

[blues4flag]

Is he on first name basis with his surgeons?

 

[Funkalicous]

Get him right, we can wait. He'll be around for a while - so long as he's smashing that weights room.

Well he can still pump iron on one leg.

 

[HBF]

Unfortunate, but not that big a deal in the scheme of things.

He'll still be able to participate in a fair chunk of preseason training to get his fitness levels out before the season.

True, but what it does do is halt his progess in getting some km's into his legs prior to Christmas. However, only sidelined for up to a month won't be too bad. Hopefully he'll be cherry ripe for the first session after Christmas.

 

[Sam The Doc]

hmm,was it worth giving up 3 picks, even though they were late ones?

 

[Blueinblood]

At least he can keep busy in the gym

 

[Lajon]

hmm,was it worth giving up 3 picks, even though they were late ones?

2 picks

 

[BluesMan]

I think lots of us are flattered to get warnock, but most of us havnt seen him play much. I hope he does well next year it could really set up a top 8 finsh. Just hoping he is not a dud!

 

[jonoman89]

Ankle surgery wouldn't affet his pre-season as much as say a midfielder. He can still do weights, eat right, handball, kick with the other foot etc.

Tap work is pretty much the only skill he can't do.

 

[Silvagnis]

Keep your skirts on.

Warnock will only be a couple of weeks behind the new batch of Carlton players we select in two weeks time.

Kreuzer played nearly every game this year..

 

[Warsaw]

I've yet to see the big guy wearing anything carlton yet or any pictures of him at the club. I'm not sure he even exists.

 

[The_JUDDERNAUT]

great chance to pump up his upper body

 

[Silvagnis]

I've yet to see the big guy wearing anything carlton yet or any pictures of him at the club. I'm not sure he even exists.

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=83667399#

Warnock lives!

 

[FootyEater]

he has spent every preseason in the afl so far being underdone because of surgery, sounds like 09 will be no different, still im sure he will play 20 odd matches in 09

 

[Bluebear]

TBH his shoulder will be the bigger concern in the short term. This kid needs to put on some serious trunk and upper body muscle and most of that you need two good shoulders for. A month off running won't bother him too much.

I just hope the ankle isn't a major thing...........I don't like rucks getting ankle/foot problems.

 

[jonoman89]

I just hope the ankle isn't a major thing...........I don't like rucks getting ankle/foot problems.

Unforunately, leg problems could get worse for him. As he puts on more weight, that's more pressure on the joints down there.

Good the club is remedying it all up now so 2010 he can hit the deck flying.

 

[Bluebear]

Unforunately, leg problems could get worse for him. As he puts on more weight, that's more pressure on the joints down there.

Yes mate I know. I deal with these injuries in a professional capacity.

 

[Silvagnis]

Warnock wants footy without fuss

I'm just looking forward to getting my head down and my bum up and getting to work and letting my actions speak for me," Warnock says.

"It's all about potential at the moment … I've only played 21 games and I just want to get out there and prove myself."

"They just thought it was a normal rolled ankle, but it kept lingering. When I got to Carlton they did a few scans and it showed that I had a bit of cartilage damage that needed to be trimmed up," Warnock explains.

"I hope to be up and going on a full program before Christmas. It will be about three weeks before I'm running on grass and then hopefully I'll be right into it a week or two after that.

"I wanted to be up and going straight away, but the shoulder probably won't be right to go for another week or so anyway, so getting the ankle done was the best thing to do.

"Hopefully it's a bit of a short term loss for a long-term gain."

Warnock is grateful for the opportunity the Blues have given him and is well aware of the price his new club paid to secure his services.

"I try not to think about that too much though because the more I think about it the more pressure I'll put on myself," he says with a wry smile.

"Obviously I want to repay the club for the faith they've shown in me to get me here, but if you think about too much outside stuff it can start to affect your performance and you don't have the right sorts of thoughts going through your head.

"Expectations do go up a bit now, but hopefully I can repay them for their faith."

"I'd really like to develop into a good running ruckman capable of going up forward as well," he says.

"I want to get the ball myself and not just be a tap ruckman, I mean you've got to give your midfielders first use, but hopefully I can end up being similar to a Dean Cox-type of player who can almost be that extra onballer at times.

"To get to that point it's going to take a lot of hard work, I've got a lot to do before I end up there. But hopefully that's the way I'm going to evolve."

Warnock and his girlfriend, Perth native Hannah, are still working out the finer details of the huge move from one side of the country to the other, and while he doesn't know what it's like to be a true Blue just yet, he can't wait to pull on the famous guernsey for the first time.

"It's good, but it will take a little while for me to settle in; just getting used to the small things like new training venues, new times, new schedules and all that sort of stuff," he says.

"When you walk in to the club you see all the photos of all the past players and the premiership cups and you can feel that it's a club that is really rich in history.

"I haven't been out on the track and doing everything with the boys, so I haven't felt it (the sense of belonging) a lot that way. But fingers crossed I'll be out there against Richmond in round one playing in front of 80,000-odd people.

"I'll really feel what it's like then."

 

[thylacine60]

Exactly how mobile is this bloke? Great article, sounds the goods bigtime.

 

[Staaar_Blue]

Exactly how mobile is this bloke? Great article, sounds the goods bigtime.

Not nearly as mobile as Kreuzer. In terms of getting around the ground Kreuzer is our man and is the one that will most likely replicate the work of Dean Cox. Warnock will be a good tap ruckman and with strength will be hard to stop in the forward line (like Hale) but I think Kreuzer is the next big thing not Warnock. I'm not sure he will play as many games next season as many people think with Kreuzer there and Hampson developing nicely.