Oppo Camp The Non-Essendon Thread VI

[Rack Watts]

you have to have practice games??

I hate any practice game because of the fact that people have career shortening injuries.

 

[GUMBLETRON]

People do knees in training too - Davey, for example. It's a sad fact of life in sport.

 

[Mercurial89]

hopefully in 10 years surgery has come far enough that an ACL injury isn't any worse than a low grade hamstring

 

[Lord Nicholson]

So the AFL's justification for holding the NAB final here is that they'll get a bigger crowd.

Clearly not interested in building the game's exposure on the Gold Coast, then.

 

[daz17]

#Boycottnabgrandfinal

 

[Doss]

hopefully in 10 years surgery has come far enough that an ACL injury isn't any worse than a low grade hamstring

I'm not sure if even the most advanced surgical techniques will ever change the fact that a ruptured or torn ligament takes a long time to heal.

I'd think future improvements are likely to come more from possible therapies that enhance regeneration of damaged tissue.

 

[Mercurial89]

I'm not sure if even the most advanced surgical techniques will ever change the fact that a ruptured or torn ligament takes a long time to heal.

I'd think future improvements are likely to come more from possible therapies that enhance regeneration of damaged tissue.

Possibly. I was under the impression that ATM we have two ways. Traditional where they take tendon from the hamstring and then LARS where they use a synthetic graft to replace the ruptured ACL.

Traditional takes so long because the site where the graft is taken takes ages to heal where as Lara the synthetic ligament frays. Hopefully in 10 years the synthetic method with allow short recovery times and lower reoccurrence rates.

But yeah hopefully recovery is a big focus. Mind you with the crackdown on anything that can be seen as performance enhancing that may slow down progress.

 

[GUMBLETRON]

Knowing nothing about the science, I'm surprised they don't use pig ligaments, or equivalent.

 

[yaco55]

Terrible news for Alex Johnson who is one of my favorite players. Swan's got a bargain with him going at 62 in the 2010 ND.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Knowing nothing about the science, I'm surprised they don't use pig ligaments, or equivalent.

You have to take anti-rejection drugs to kill your immune system when you get tissue from someone else or an animal because the body recognizes it as foreign and tried to get rid of it. They only use transplants for serious stuff where there is no other option and not doing it would mean you die.

Stem cells are probably where the future lies for stuff like this.

 

[GUMBLETRON]

Presumably rejection isn't a problem for synthetics then?

 

[Old Campaigner]

Depends on the material I think.

 

[Rack Watts]

Poor Suckling, one of my fav non-Essendon players.

 

[monty1104]

You have to take anti-rejection drugs to kill your immune system when you get tissue from someone else or an animal because the body recognizes it as foreign and tried to get rid of it. They only use transplants for serious stuff where there is no other option and not doing it would mean you die.

Stem cells are probably where the future lies for stuff like this.

Erm.... No. I have a heart condition and have a pig's valve in place of my original pulmonary valve. I have not undergone any anti-rejection treatment, nor was my condition life threatening (at the time of my most recent operation).

 

[Rack Watts]

Erm.... No. I have a heart condition and have a pig's valve in place of my original pulmonary valve. I have not undergone any anti-rejection treatment, nor was my condition life threatening (at the time of my most recent operation).

Pig Hibberd?

 

[Rack Watts]

Erm.... No. I have a heart condition and have a pig's valve in place of my original pulmonary valve. I have not undergone any anti-rejection treatment, nor was my condition life threatening (at the time of my most recent operation).

Pig #1

 

[monty1104]

I'd love to have Pig's ticker

 

[Rack Watts]

I'd love to have Pig's ticker

Haha, most people do mate, he's a real go-er

 

[Mercurial89]

The sooner they allow human cloning the better.

Splice Fletcher's age defiance, with hird's ability to slow down time when he has the footy, add to that the magic of Gary ablett and the physical abilities of lance franklin And danks "peptides" will be Long forgotten.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Parkins just thrown Carlton under the bus a little.

 

[Eleven 38]

Parkins just thrown Carlton under the bus a little.

about/on what show?

 

[Red Black and Blue]

about?

Said when was coaching they sacked a rogue agent who was suspected of giving the players illegal substances. Not current news, but could have ramifications over premiership years.

 

[Eleven 38]

Said when was coaching they sacked a rogue agent who was suspected of giving the players illegal substances. Not current news, but could have ramifications over premiership years.

interesting, so we could be on top of the flag ladder outright soon,,before we even get 17..

 

[Doss]

interesting, so we could be on top of the flag ladder outright soon,,before we even get 17..

Hold your horses a little. We got annoyed at the start of this whole debacle when people started saying rubbish about 1993 and 2000 being tarnished because Hird and Thompson were involved in those sides.

 

[Eleven 38]

Hold your horses a little. We got annoyed at the start of this whole debacle when people started saying rubbish about 1993 and 2000 being tarnished because Hird and Thompson were involved in those sides.

85% of my life is consumed by annoying Carlton supporters...