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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: mightytiges on June 18, 2006, 01:53:28 PM
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Looks like we'll lose him for a few weeks :(.
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From what I've just heard on ABC radio, looks like it's an ACL. That means 12 months out.
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Will have scans tomorrow to confirm, but they seem fairly certain it's a long term injury.
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Didnt look that bad and just seemed to lose ballance.
They seem pretty certain it is an ACL
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Confirmed ACL -12 months :'(
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Confirmed ACL -12 months :'(
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Was it done when he initially stumbled or the second time in the goalsquare after he went back on? If he played on then it's like what happened to Lenny Hayes.
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I think it was Dr. Brukner on the ABC who said that it was a classic ACL. The player goes off injured and then seems ok once the pain decreases. Suppose that means he did the injury the first time, but couldn't be sure on that.
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Been too many knees lately.
Can't be the gruonds, as we never saw this many knees in the past. Boots?
Terrible anyway. All the best Cogs :'(
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these are elite athletes who are asked to do the equivalent of multiple speed sprints and long distance running for 2 hours on a weekend. people forget the boys are actually people not robots. the faster the game gets, these things will happen. the dogs are suffering big time because of the way they play.
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Coughlan may miss season
5:17:05 PM Sun 18 June, 2006
Jason Phelan
Sportal for afl.com.au
Richmond's season suffered a hammer blow on Sunday with star midfielder Mark Coughlan suffering a suspected ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.
The Tiger onballer limped off in the third minute of his side's 41-point loss to Hawthorn at Aurora Stadium in Launceston and, despite running the boundary and even going back onto the field momentarily, coach Terry Wallace suspected the worst after the match.
"We think it's an ACL, (but) we won't know until the tests are done tomorrow, but it looks likely that he'll be out for 12 months which makes it a very disappointing day obviously," Wallace said.
"He was tagged last week and played a pretty good game and he came off a 40-possession game over in Perth the week prior to that, so he was getting right back to his best footy.
"Some blokes in this competition seem to get a wretched run, while other blokes seem to get a blessed run and he's one of those players who just doesn't seem to have any luck about the way he goes about it."
Wallace was unable to pinpoint the exact play that caused the injury and was unsure why Coughlan was initially cleared to retake the field.
He said he would 'go through that with the medical staff'.
http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=injurynews&spg=display&articleid=274533
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Medical room for Round 12
19 June 2006 Herald-Sun
Dr Peter Larkins
MARK COUGHLAN
DIAGNOSIS
(KNEE) Coughlan sustained a severe injury to the right knee in an innocuous change of direction incident in the first quarter of yesterday's match.
DOC SAYS...
Coughlan will have further specialist assessment and scans in Melbourne today but Richmond is expecting the worst. He appears to have injured the ACL and is likely to require a full knee reconstruction, which will rule him out for the remainder of the 2006 season.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,19510942%255E19742,00.html
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After he took the mark in the 1st ( after he came back on - why he did I'll never know :banghead) it was like it just popped/collapsed when he turned
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After he took the mark in the 1st ( after he came back on - why he did I'll never know :banghead) it was like it just popped/collapsed when he turned
that can happen, with some acl, u feel ok, pass all tests, iirc another player earlier this yr played a whole game with an acl, lenny hayes, and it was only late at night he knew something was wrong
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Richmond has confirmed star midfielder Mark Coughlan has ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament and will undergo surgery on Monday afternoon - ruling him out for the rest of the season.
The club has revealed that the scans carried out on the hard-working onballer have delivered the worst possible news for Tiger fans.
Coughlan limped off in the third minute of his side's 41-point loss to Hawthorn at Aurora Stadium in Launceston on Sunday and despite running the boundary and even going back onto the field momentarily, coach Terry Wallace suspected an ACL injury after the match.
"He was tagged last week and played a pretty good game and he came off a 40-possession game over in Perth the week prior to that, so he was getting right back to his best footy," Wallace said.
"Some blokes in this competition seem to get a wretched run, while other blokes seem to get a blessed run and he's one of those players who just doesn't seem to have any luck about the way he goes about it."
Wallace was unable to pinpoint the exact play that caused the injury and was unsure why Coughlan was initially cleared to retake the field, an issue he said that he would take up with the club's medical staff.
http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=274695
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coming from a stregnth and conditioning backround the problem with afl players and fitness staff is that footy players do not do enough real heavy 1/4 squats to really stregnthen their knee joints. its not rocket science, any hard core stregnth and conditioning weightlifter wil tell you that!
1/4 squats should be compulsary in every training week!
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So do you think they'll bring anyone off the rookie list for Cogs?
Who comes in for him? Do they give Rodan the spot and see if he can stamp himself as a midfielder, do they give Humm a go, or a kid, like White?
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So do you think they'll bring anyone off the rookie list for Cogs?
Who comes in for him? Do they give Rodan the spot and see if he can stamp himself as a midfielder, do they give Humm a go, or a kid, like White?
they will only bring a kid off the rookie list if he is good enough, but white is the sure replacement 4 cogs, rodan isnt skillfull enough and even though his lil legs motor on like fred flinstone, he is too slow, foley is quicker than rodan
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So do you think they'll bring anyone off the rookie list for Cogs?
We've already promoted Humm when Thursfield went on the long term injury list. That leaves Howat and Angus Graham. Graham is too raw and not ready. Howat has been playing alright at Coburg but I can't see him getting promoted if humm cannot get a game.
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Wounded Tiger resilient
4:31:00 PM Mon 19 June, 2006
Andrew Wu
Sportal for afl.com.au
Just a day after finding out his season was over, Richmond midfielder Mark Coughlan has accepted his fate and is already concentrating on recovering from a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament, according to his manager Paul Connors.
While understandably flat after becoming the second player on the weekend to join the growing list of ACL victims this season, which also includes teammate Will Thursfield, Coughlan had come to terms with his season-ending injury by Monday afternoon.
"His spirits went from very flat to 'OK, I've got to deal with this'," said Connors of his client, who was due to have a knee reconstruction at Vimy House in Melbourne on Monday evening.
"He slipped into from really flat yesterday to 'OK, I've got to attack this. I'm booked in, this is what I've got to do. Let's get it done and let's get into it'."
"So he went from feeling sorry for himself pretty much into work mode."
However, the Coughlan camp was aware of the hard work still ahead of the star Tiger.
"I think he's dealt with it pretty quickly (but it) doesn't mean there's not going to be flat periods to come, but I think just at the moment he's got an operation to get over."
The loss of Coughlan, who was restricted to just six games in 2004 by osteitis pubis, is a tremendous blow to the Tigers midfield, especially as it comes just a fortnight after the 2003 Jack Dyer Medallist collected a personal season-best 35 possessions against Fremantle.
Coughlan, one of the Tigers' best players in close, is a key member of the Richmond midfield and is the club's third leading ball-winner this season, averaging 22 touches a game prior to Sunday's clash with Hawthorn.
http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=274844
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From the Herald-Sun:
20 June 2006
Mark Stevens
Coughlan had surgery yesterday after suffering a ruptured ACL in the early stages of the Tigers' loss to Hawthorn at Aurora Stadium on Sunday.
Richmond coach Terry Wallace last night said Coughlan's knee was ``fairly clean'', confirming he had escaped damage to surrounding ligaments.
``The best case would have him training by Christmas and there is a chance we could have him back for the start of next year, but it is too early to know for sure,'' Wallace said.
Coughlan returned to the ground after suffering the original injury, but Wallace said there was no problem with the way the medical staff handled the midfielder.
``It is an injury where you've either done it or you haven't. It's not like he's half-done it the first time and come back on and done it fully,'' Wallace said.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,19525191%255E19742,00.html
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rodan isnt skillfull enough and even though his lil legs motor on like fred flinstone, he is too slow, foley is quicker than rodan
Rodan seems to run backwards 20 metres when he gets the ball, before turning and heading the right direction.
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so true, rodan has no sense of direction and poor decision making
once again, as much as everyone bags krak, he does not have these issues, he has a footy brain, he is a footballer , not an athlete!
rodan is neither
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We just need to learn to cope without him. It would be interesting to see who puts his hand up for a gig in the middle.
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This was posted on the Yahoo Tiger Talk site about Cogs and Thursfield:
Spoke to Mark's mum today and she said that the op was done at this afternoon and the doctor said it was a very clean recon and he can be back in full training early in the new year and should resume end of April. Even
though Cogs hurt is knee some 2 months after Thursfield, his [Will's] damage was so bad that Cogs will heal much quicker than Will. The doctor said that Will's was the worst one he had seen.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tiger-talk/message/74456?l=1
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Hopefully that's a good sign for Cogs but it doesn't sound too good for Will :(.
So do you think they'll bring anyone off the rookie list for Cogs?
Who comes in for him? Do they give Rodan the spot and see if he can stamp himself as a midfielder, do they give Humm a go, or a kid, like White?
they will only bring a kid off the rookie list if he is good enough, but white is the sure replacement 4 cogs, rodan isnt skillfull enough and even though his lil legs motor on like fred flinstone, he is too slow, foley is quicker than rodan
Bringing up a rookie onto the senior list also means extra expense to the Club so they would only do it if the rookie had shown good form at Coburg or as X said we think he is good enough to make it. Graham is too raw and is playing Coburg ressies while Howat hasn't done much. It was a bit of a surprise that we promoted Humm so soon after Thursty did his knee. We seem to have only done it so Humm could play against his old club as he's been banished ever since.