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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on April 16, 2006, 06:47:40 PM
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Wallace's view:
Nathan Brown had a night he'd rather forget after being beaten by Tyson Stenglein. He finished with only two kicks and two marks but scored a goal midway through the third term.
"He's still struggling, and I think Nathan knows that himself," Wallace said.
"No one's giving him any favours as you would expect, he's got a quality defender on him week in and week out and that's what he's getting because of his reputation in the game.
"…I did try to warn people (that Nathan would struggle) at the start of the year and that it was going to take him 12 months to get back (to his best)."
http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=258110
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Personally having been at the game yesterday and seeing how much Browny did struggle I reckon it's time for a rest. :thumbsup
He appeared to pull up sore a couple of times when attacking the ball - it appeared like he suffered a sudden sharp pain or something. The other thing too was the Eagles (and all credit to 'em) ran off him very easily - set up a lot of attacks out of the back half
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He should of been rested on the big hard Subi ground - That said he should rest this week, he is no good in that state (leg soreness) not WA and a week off should do him good.
Then unleassh him on the scum at our first HOME game of the year.
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weekly rotation at least.
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Desperate Wallace looks towards frustrated Brown
17 April 2006
Herald Sun
Mark Stevens
RICHMOND is poised to set Nathan Brown free after a fortnight of intense frustration close to goal.
Tigers coach Terry Wallace last night flagged the prospect of Brown playing short bursts in the midfield or off half-back against the Brisbane Lions on Saturday night.
"We might play him in five-minute lots up the ground – on and off the bench," Wallace said.
But Brown has to get that far first, with Wallace again not ruling out resting his superstar.
Wallace said there was every chance Brown could miss the trip to the Gabba.
Brown pulled up sore after the Tigers' loss to West Coast at Subiaco on Saturday night and continues to be a week-to-week proposition.
He had two kicks and managed one goal in 86 minutes, manned up by Eagles stopper Tyson Stenglein.
"Browny is very frustrated. He is a very proud person and he doesn't want to lose ground in the eyes of his teammates," Wallace said.
Wallace conceded the Tigers were partly to blame for Brown's struggle to regain form after returning from a sickening broken leg.
"We probably haven't done him any favours," Wallace said. "We decided to play him deeper because it's not as taxing on the body, but it's a hard spot to play when you're not 100 per cent right.
"We need to try to work out, between the medical and football staff, what he can and can't do.
"Every week we're finding out more and more information about what he is capable of.
"We'll sit down tomorrow and see where he's going, and what our plan of action is."
Wallace said it was time Brown moved further up the ground and started winning the ball again.
In his return match against the Bulldogs in Round 1, Brown started at the back of the square and managed 18 disposals in 104 minutes in a successful comeback game.
"He played some good footy then. Perhaps we need to free him up a bit," Wallace said.
"Up the ground, he will find the ball."
Opposition teams have cut Brown no slack, throwing their best stoppers his way.
The Bulldogs used Dale Morris as a match-up when Brown was forward and he copped renowned stopper Steven Baker when the Tigers lost to the Saints in Round 2.
Brown had 10 disposals in 95 minutes against the Saints and finished with two behinds.
Brown's goal against the Eagles on Saturday night was his first of the season.
The Tigers will continue to be patient with the damaging forward. They don't expect Brown to return to his best until 2007 – after the rod is removed from his right leg.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,18833664%255E20322,00.html
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Give Browny a rest this week and call up Meyer
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Tigers coach Terry Wallace last night flagged the prospect of Brown playing short bursts in the midfield or off half-back against the Brisbane Lions on Saturday night.
"We might play him in five-minute lots up the ground – on and off the bench," Wallace said.
I can't see Browny having the run and pace to play in the centre even for short bursts at this stage.
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He is getting games on reputation.
2 touches? Anyone else would be dropped.
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Ch 10 had Wallace on saying Browny was 50-50 as he's still sore.
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Brown may be dropped
5:18:22 PM Tue 18 April, 2006
Paul Gough
Sportal for afl.com.au
Richmond coach Terry Wallace has conceded he may have to do the previously unthinkable and drop Nathan Brown if the champion forward continues to struggle in his recovery from a broken leg.
Brown has played all three matches this season but has been a shadow of the player that was so dominant before he suffered his horrific injury in round ten last year.
After 34 goals in just ten games last year, the dual All-Australian has managed just one so far this season and only collected two kicks during last Saturday's loss to the West Coast Eagles.
And while Wallace remains convinced Brown can recapture his best form, he conceded he would drop him if he believed at any stage that he was no longer in the Tigers' best 22.
"There has to be a time where he earns his right to play," Wallace said.
"It’s an ongoing dilemma of what impact he can have, while we are trying to work him back to full fitness and full game strength, versus winning games and playing our best team."
"I am still responsible as the senior coach to select the best side and you have got to have a situation where the guys playing at the next level deserve their opportunity and a bloke at senior level doesn't (if he is struggling) and we will decide that at any point in time."
Wallace denied the Tigers were risking Brown by playing him just ten months after his shocking injury, adding he had earned his spot in the team thus far.
The Tigers coach said he had warned all along Brown was unlikely to return to his best until 2007, by which time he would have had the rod is in his leg removed and would have had the benefit of another full pre-season under his belt.
"The medical statements on him are that he is right to play each week, we wouldn't play him otherwise so there is no risk - it's just soreness and his inability to move laterally as well as he would like."
"It's a difficult game at the best of times to play, let alone if you are only able to run in a straight line."
Wallace said he was also in a "Catch 22 situation" where to play Brown, admitting he was battling in the difficult small forward role while struggling in his recovery.
But equally Wallace is concerned the increased workload that would come as a result of moving Brown into the midfield to get him more involved in the play may place too much pressure on his leg.
Brown is not Wallace's only headache in the lead-up to Saturday night's tough trip to Brisbane as he tries to lift the Tigers off the bottom of the ladder as one of only two winless teams after three rounds.
The loss of stuff Darren Gaspar (hamstring) just a week after the long-term losses of promising young defenders Will Thursfield (knee) and Jay Schulz (collarbone) leaves the Tigers desperately short on for height in defence.
But despite the Tigers' tough predicament Wallace is not downbeat saying he knew the job of re-building a Richmond side that has made the finals just twice in 23 years and was last on the ladder with 14 straight losses when he took over would be tough.
"I didn’t kid myself when I took on this job 18 months ago, I knew it was a very difficult job," he said.
"A lot of people told me not to take it on because they believed it was too tough considering where the club was at, but this is about a journey and getting the place right and we will have a few hiccups along the way."
http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=258593
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Magoos for a week or two just as part of his rehab.
Call it dropped if u want but i liken it more to prevention better than cure @ this stage.
The guys got a rod the length of johnny Holmes in his leg FFS.
No wonder he pulls up "Stiff" :shh
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Injury still impedes Brown's comeback
By Martin Boulton
The Age
April 19, 2006
RICHMOND'S Nathan Brown could be a week-to-week proposition if post-match soreness continues to restrict his training and limits his ability to play full games.
Coach Terry Wallace said yesterday he still thought Brown would return to the form he showed in the early part of last season, but said that level of improvement may not come until next season.
"I've said from day one I thought it would take another summer of training, having the rod out of his leg and a full summer on the training track before we're likely to see the absolute best of him," Wallace said.
"I'm still confident he can get back to his best, but it will take time."
Brown badly broke his lower right leg in the round 10 clash against Melbourne at Telstra Dome last year.
After a promising return to senior football this year, collecting 18 possessions in round one, he had 10 touches against St Kilda in round two but managed just two kicks against the Eagles on Saturday night.
His three matches so far this year have returned one goal. In the nine matches he played in 2005 before breaking his leg he booted 34 goals.
After he pulled up sore from the season opener against the Western Bulldogs, Wallace played his star recruit inside the Tigers' forward 50 against St Kilda, but said that role also left him with soreness and restricted his ability to train.
Compounding injury concerns are Darren Gaspar's hamstring (two weeks) and Tom Roach's broken cheekbone, which is expected to sideline him for six weeks.
Jay Schulz (dislocated collarbone) is likely to miss up to two months and defender Will Thursfield will miss the season with a knee injury.
Wallace said talls Greg Stafford and Trent Knobel, both yet to play a senior game this season, were available to play the Lions on Saturday night.
http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2006/04/18/1145344083484.html
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If he's feeling sore he didn't show it on the training track today. He did the whole 2 hour session with the main group and looked to be moving well. He even spent time at the end with Krak and Sugar practicing their leads with changes of direction on the members wing.
Browny was asked by some reporter from Fox footy as he ran inside at the end if he woud play and he said with a smirk he hopes so but that's up to Terry. Wallace didn't give anything away when he was interviewed for a couple of minutes but going on Browny today I'd say he will play.
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Tigers to meet on Brown
11:42:14 PM Sat 22 April, 2006
Andrew Browne
Exclusive to richmondfc.com.au
Richmond's coaching staff will sit down on Monday and discuss the current status of Nathan Brown's troublesome leg after the star forward was too sore to play in Brisbane on Saturday night.
Despite Brown completing the Tigers' light training run on Friday evening, the coaching panel decided against playing the 28-year-old and his place was admirably taken by youngster Nathan Foley as the visitors recorded their first win of the season at the Gabba.
Coach Terry Wallace said after the gutsy 14-point victory that there were no complications in the recovery from last year's badly broken leg, but the injury is still causing Brown some frustration.
"We are going to have a meeting with our medical staff and football division of the club about where we take it (Brown's injury)," said Wallace.
"We have a lot of people who have not got the medical information that are having an opinion on what we should or shouldn't be doing with him."
"He (Brown) gets frustrated with where he is at so we just need to make sure we keep covering everything off and that he knows and understands it is a long journey and long process he is a part of."
Wallace did not reveal if specialists outside of the club would be involved in the meeting, but it is just a matter of 'dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's' in terms of the recovery process.
"We are very satisfied with everything that has happened physically and medically with him up until this stage," he said.
"We just want to dot the 'i's and cross the 't's just to make sure he and his family are comfortable and marching in the right direction which I think is important."
The meeting will determine whether Brown gets the go ahead to prepare for Friday night's clash against Carlton as the Tigers manage another short week.
"With him being sore you guarantee he couldn't play both (games), so we will give him every chance for Carlton next week if that is what we decide on Monday," said Wallace.
http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=259871
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I hate to say it but if Browny had played I don't think we would have won.
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Wallace calls summit to clear the air on Brown
By Stephen Rielly
The Age
April 24, 2006
NATHAN Brown will the subject of a summit at Punt Road today, called by Richmond coach Terry Wallace to address the uncertainty gathering around the star forward's recovery and immediate future.
Richmond's medical, fitness and coaching staff have been asked to attend the meeting, along with at least one director and members of Brown's close family and management, to discuss the progress of his rehabilitation.
Wallace said yesterday that the gruesome nature of the break to Brown's leg last year, his modest form this year and the fact that he is yet to fully recover from the injury, which continues to cause him pain, have combined to create a cloud of suspicion about his future.
"So much comment and opinion swirls around Nathan," Wallace said. "We've had so many people making comment about him, whether he should be playing or not playing, about the state of his leg, his form, whether he is jeopardising his career or we're jeopardising his career. Most of it's well-meaning but after a while it has the effect of creating uncertainty and then it builds into something bigger.
"After last week, I just said it would be a really good idea to again get our medical and conditioning people together with our coaches, some directors, some of the people close to Nathan, his management, so all facets of the club know exactly what the truth is, exactly what the situation is, so that everyone is comfortable with his continuing recovery." Brown, with a 15-centimetre titanium plate strengthening the leg he snapped, scarcely touched the football against West Coast in round three and Wallace rested him from Saturday night's match against Brisbane because of what Brown has described as nagging soreness.
Wallace said that, given the severity of the injury, Brown's recovery had been sound and as much as anyone had expected it to be but because of his previous high playing standards it had been questioned.
"For instance, people have been suggesting that he should be rested or needs more rest and yet everything I've been told is that if he rests it will be harder for him to come back, that the recovery, particularly the muscular side of things, will be more difficult if he doesn't keep active," Wallace said.
"There won't be a 'Browny isn't going to play for three months' announcement to come out of the meeting, but hopefully after it everyone will be sure of exactly what the situation is. For the want of anything else, it's just a due diligence exercise."
http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2006/04/23/1145730808926.html
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Should Nathan Brown play?
24 April 2006 Herald Sun
David Hastie
RICHMOND coach Terry Wallace has called a meeting at Punt Rd today to discuss star utility Nathan Brown's immediate playing future.
Wallace said he intended to "put to bed" any speculation surrounding Brown's management of the muscle soreness that has plagued him since his return from a broken leg, sustained in Round 10 last season.
Those attending the meeting will be coaching, medical and fitness and conditioning staff, representatives of the Richmond board and management, as well as Brown's management and family.
Wallace said the meeting was a direct reaction to misinformation circulating in the media.
"A lot of people make comments on whether he should be playing or whether he shouldn't be playing," Wallace said.
"They're making those comments from an uninformed situation, without the medical information.
"The rubbish that the other media have come out with, making an announcement, `Nathan Brown won't play for the next six weeks', that's not what it's about. I just sort of thought it was time to get all parties together.
"Get Browny's people, his management and his family – and certainly our board, management, medical and fitness staff and footy personnel – together and go through it so everyone walks away from the meeting absolutely clear in their minds of where things are heading."
Despite the immediacy of the get-together, Wallace stressed it was not a crisis meeting.
"There's not going to be anything that will come out of the meeting that will be some great statement," Wallace said.
"It's just to make sure that everyone's absolutely comfortable of where we're going with the whole thing.
"It will be medical, certainly psychological – how he's handling things – the football aspects of it."
The Herald Sun believes the Tigers will discuss the prospect of Brown spending time playing for VFL-affiliate side Coburg.
It is also believed Brown will be encouraged to play through the pain, as a spell on the sidelines is thought to be counter-productive to his recovery from the injury.
Respected sports doctor Peter Larkins said there was no great advantage to resting Brown for the next few rounds.
"I know he'll improve, but I don't know that he'll necessarily be any better with just a couple of weeks off when he does come back to play because the soreness will come back," Larkins said.
"He wasn't 100 per cent when he came back, but to get 100 per cent may have taken, and will literally take, several more months.
"The best option would be to rest him for a couple of months, but I don't think that will happen."
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,18906686%255E19742,00.html
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RICHMOND coach Terry Wallace has called a meeting at Punt Rd today to discuss star utility Nathan Brown's immediate playing future.
Just reported on SEN that Brown will not play against Carlton this week.
They will just need to monitor his progress (week by week I guess). No suggestion that he will rest out the season.
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Will miss next two ;)
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Will miss next two ;)
Will he play for Coburg during that time Jack? I got the impression from the SEN interview that it was mainly a pain management situation for Browny now and he'll be rested for a week or two till the soreness dies down then played on and off.
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They said on Sunday (Doc Larkin) that he should have stayed out for the whole season. Is not the break but the muscle soreness - probably why he played so unexpectedly well round one and then the effect of the Telstra Dome surface gradually taking its toll.
I disagree with you, Julz, i think just being out there playing on one leg this guy has something to offer. He still would have tried his heart out and paid the consequences later. Good luck, Nath and hurry back.
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Brown to miss again
5:08:54 PM Mon 24 April, 2006
Paul Gough
Sportal for afl.com.au
Richmond star Nathan Brown will again be a spectator this week when the Tigers take on Carlton at the MCG on Friday night with the club deciding on Monday he won't return to action until the pain has subsided in his injured leg.
Brown missed the Tigers' win over Brisbane on Saturday night after struggling in his comeback from last year's serious broken leg during the first three matches of the season.
He managed only two kicks during the round three loss to West Coast and has kicked just one goal for the season - a far cry from last year when he kicked 34 goals in the first 10 games before suffering his injury.
Brown, who was determined to make it back for round one this year from the moment he suffered the injury in late May last year, is playing with a 32cm rod in his leg.
He has been pulling up sore after games and has been restricted in the amount of training he has been able to do between games.
Richmond coach Terry Wallace has maintained all along that Brown would not be back to his best until 2007 by which time the rod will have been removed from his leg and he will have had the benefit of a full pre-season without it under his belt.
Wallace decided on the weekend to call a meeting for Monday to decide Brown's immediate playing future, following continued speculation about whether or not he should be playing.
The meeting was attended by members of the Tigers' coaching, medical and fitness and conditioning staffs as well as Brown and his management.
As a result the club has decided that Brown won't play until he is either pain-free in his leg or the pain caused by the muscle soreness he has been experiencing during his comeback is at a manageable level.
However the Tigers do not expect this to lead to Brown being sidelined for the long-term with the dual All-Australian having only been ruled out of Friday night's MCG clash with Carlton at this stage.
Richmond club doctor Greg Hickey said Brown had progressed well during the pre-season and felt fine during his comeback game against the Bulldogs - when he had 18 possessions - but had struggled as the intensity of the games had risen each week.
"Over the past three weeks, Nathan has had increased pain during and after games, with slower recovery," Dr Hickey said.
“The bottom line is that as the intensity of the games has risen, he's got sorer.
Dr Hickey said X-rays revealed further improvement in the healing process in Brown's leg meaning the soreness he is suffering 'is most likely a stress reaction at the fracture site'.
As a result the Tigers have decided to rest Brown in the short-term and 'then build up his training load until he’s as pain-free as possible and ready to play again'.
"Right the way through, we have been closely monitoring Nathan’s progress and we’re certainly comfortable with all the decisions that have been made with regards to his playing future," Dr Hickey said.
"There’s no question in our minds that this is only a temporary setback for him and he will be back playing soon."
http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=260263
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Brown breaks to save career
Malcolm Conn
The Australian
April 25, 2006
NATHAN BROWN's future is in limbo. The star Tigers forward will not be allowed to play again until increasing pain in the leg he broke last year has subsided.
A late withdrawal from last weekend's breakthrough victory against Brisbane, Brown has already been ruled out of Friday night's match against fellow struggler Carlton at the MCG.
Richmond club doctor Greg Hickey could not say when Brown, who is playing with a 32cm rod in his leg, would be able to resume but was hopeful the problem would be short term.
"The bottom line is that as the intensity of the games has risen, he's got sorer," Hickey said after a two-hour meeting with Brown and his management at Punt Road yesterday.
Coach Terry Wallace conceded that Brown probably should not have played in his most recent match, against West Coast, the previous weekend.
"When he was doing the warm-up, all of a sudden he would have been in a situation going 'should I be here or shouldn't I be here'," Wallace said. "We don't want that situation for any of our players, let alone Nathan."
Wallace said the club had a low expectation of what it believed Brown could achieve this year.
"I expect him to need another summer (of training) under his belt to get the best out of him."
There was some better news for the Tigers last night, with tagger Mark Chaffey expected to play after recovering from injury and ruckman Trent Knobel proving his fitness with Coburg reserves last Sunday.
Brown's form has slipped significantly since he was one of Richmond's few good players in the opening round during a 19-goal thrashing by his old club, the Western Bulldogs.
A fortnight later against the Eagles in Perth he managed just two possessions.
The normally effervescent and media-friendly Brown refused to comment after yesterday's meeting, leaving the talking to Hickey and Wallace.
"Over the past three weeks Nathan has had increased pain during and after games, with slower recovery," Hickey said.
"X-rays have shown further advance in healing, so the cause of pain is most likely a stress reaction at the fracture site.
"In consultation with Nathan, the decision has been made to rest him in the short-term and then build up his training load until he's as pain-free as possible and ready to play again.
"Right the way through, we have been closely monitoring Nathan's progress and we're certainly comfortable with all the decisions that have been made with regards to his playing future.
"There's no question in our minds, however, that this is only a temporary setback for him and he will be back playing soon."
Wallace denied that Brown had resumed too quickly or had been pushed too hard as the Tigers attempted to get their creative goal kicker ready for the start of the season.
"He'd done all the training. We were really comfortable with the management of Nathan over the summer period," Wallace said.
"We'll just ease him off a little bit just to make sure we get rid of that soreness and then work him back up over the latter part of this week and early part of next week.
"It's a pain tolerance situation and we've just got to manage it.
"He gets the number one tagger every time he goes out on the ground. It's hard enough to get a kick in this competition, let alone when you're sore."
One of the main reasons for Richmond's brilliant start last season was the early form of Brown, playing under his old coach again during Wallace's first year at Punt Road.
He had kicked 34 goals, highlighted by five in the final quarter against Collingwood in round eight, and collected more than 200 possessions in the first nine rounds.
However his season ended in horrific circumstances when he fractured his lower leg badly late in the round 10 match against Melbourne.
The Tigers surprised everyone by winning seven of their first nine matches but following Brown's injury managed just three more victories in a disappointing finish to the year.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18919004-36035,00.html
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Brown's short break to repair leg
25 April 2006
Herald Sun
Bruce Matthews
FRUSTRATED Richmond forward Nathan Brown may be forced to sit out only Friday night's game against Carlton to overcome soreness in his repaired right leg.
Coach Terry Wallace said last night Brown would resume full training later this week in a bid to be available for the rivalry round clash with Essendon at the MCG on Saturday week.
"I would be hoping it would be as soon as two (weeks). Miss this week and play the week after. But that will depend how he responds," Wallace said.
"The initial reaction was to give him the early part of this week off. Probably three days he will be off the track, on the bike, pool work. Then he will just resume and start to build up again."
A decision was made at yesterday's medical meeting, attended by Brown and Wallace, at Punt Rd to rest the ace forward until the recent discomfort become more manageable.
"Over the past three weeks, Nathan has had increased pain during and after games, with slower recovery," club doctor Greg Hickey said.
"X-rays have shown further advance in healing, so the cause of pain is most likely a stress reaction at the fracture site. In consultation with Nathan, the decision has been made to rest him in the short-term and then build up his training load until he's as pain-free as possible and ready to play again."
Brown complained of pain in the lower leg, badly broken against Melbourne in round 10 last season, after he played the opening round against the Western Bulldogs.
He had 18 possessions and experienced no problems in that first game back, but the intensity of training requirements, along with game-day pressure, brought on the pain.
"He's just getting a little soreness. The site has mended, but they tell me where the regrowth has been, they expect that to get residual soreness for quite a few months," Wallace said.
"That can be managed quite adequately. All it has done is flared up a little bit and we need to get it under control.
"You can't put a judgment call on it (play again). That's the first thing Nathan and myself asked at the meeting."
Dr Hickey allayed fears that Brown would be indefinitely forced out of the game as he recommended the classy forward be rested from training until later in the week.
"Right the way through, we've been closely monitoring Nathan's progress and we're certainly comfortable with all the decisions that have been made with regards to his playing future," he said.
"As the intensity of the game has risen, he has got more sore. There's no question in our minds that this is only a temporary setback for him and he will be back playing soon."
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,18917190%255E20322,00.html
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Rest up Browny, look after yourself first
All these bloody injuries will come back to haunt you in later years
Lying in bed at 40yo in searing pain because of something you did years ago aint fun
Take your time and relax, there's more than just a broken bone to heal
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Coach Terry Wallace conceded that Brown probably should not have played in his most recent match, against West Coast, the previous weekend.
Subi is the last place you play players carrying impact and soft tissue injuries. We still haven't learnt from what happened to Cambo. The ground is huge and too hard especially at this time of year.
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Browny update in The Age:
Nathan Brown, who is being managed through soreness in the leg he broke last year, has trained only lightly in the pool this week but Wallace said he did not expect the star forward's enforced rest to exceed a fortnight.
http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2006/04/26/1145861420569.html
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A 100% winning record as assistant coach ;D
Brown, who has struggled this season since making his comeback from a broken leg, said his role for the Lions game was to sit in the coach's box and look after the forward line.
"I set up the forward line a little bit differently, with Terry's knowledge obviously," he said.
Brown said it was decided he miss at least two games because a combination of training and playing was leaving his leg sore.
"So I've decided to have this week off which is Friday night which I was disappointed with because I wanted to play this week," he said.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,18943431%255E19771,00.html
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For those who didn't see it, Browny was asked about his playing future.
Browny said during the meeting the club had 3 options were discussed. One was to chuck in 2006 and have the rod removed and just get right for 2007. As we knew it's the pain that's the main problem caused by the intensity of playing AFL footy for 2.5 hours each week. He was fine during preseason training for an hour and a half. Basically playing 3 straight games on hard grounds has caused the current problem. He hasn't been able to train in between games. It was his call to play and he wanted to play tonight against Carlton but the Club said no. Browny's not sure when he'll be back but he's hoping it isn't long. At least the two weeks as Jackstar mentioned. He wants to come back and be able to train and play without any major pain. When he does eventually play again, if he feels pain then he'll chuck in 2006 and have the rod removed.
Later on in the show Browny pulled up his trouser leg and showed his leg. Sam immediately said "you can't play with a leg like that. It's all swollen". They were all probably overdramatising it a bit as I didn't think it looked too bad for someone coming back from a snapped leg. It's got a big scar lower down but that doesn't stop you playing footy.
:rollin @ Browny wearing Richmond socks with his suit :thumbsup. A Tiger through and through :bow.