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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on May 22, 2007, 03:52:52 AM
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Brown may return in a fortnight
22 May 2007 Herald-Sun
Michael Horan
RICHMOND saw some light through the gloom yesterday when star forward Nathan Brown continued to train free of pain.
Brown, 29, could play as early as the weekend after next if his track form continues its rapid progress.
"He's getting better. He's run the last two weeks pain-free and he's a big chance to come back within the next two or three weeks," Tigers football operations manager Paul Armstrong said yesterday.
"He's missed a lot of football, so it would be hard for him to come straight back in at the top level.
"Coburg Tigers have a bye this week, but after that he'd be a chance for the next week or two weeks later."
Brown has not played a regular-season match since Round 18 last year when he tore a hamstring, but it is the "hot spots" in the right leg he broke badly in Round 10, 2005 that continue to hamper his fitness.
He ran strongly at training at Punt Rd yesterday, despite a slight limp.
The dual All-Australian has some chance of making a return in his home town of Bendigo against the Bombers in the VFL on Sunday week.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,21772312%255E20322,00.html
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Great that Browny isn't running in any pain anymore but he'll need to have played a couple of games in a row without pain before we can say he's back.
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Great news that browny might be back soon
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I wonder if Coburg can squeeze him in ;D
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I wonder if Coburg can squeeze him in ;D
I am sure they'll manage it somehow but if it is going to be the game in a fortnight it's a bit of bummer (no pun intended).
Coburg are due to play Bendigo in Bendigo :P
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Thats great that he is running pain free. But has the hot spot cleared up? Do they know how to prevent it from reoccuring? If the answers are no to either, we are just waiting for a reoccurence.
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Thats great that he is running pain free. But has the hot spot cleared up? Do they know how to prevent it from reoccuring? If the answers are no to either, we are just waiting for a reoccurence.
Don't think they know how to prevent it Ratman because they don't know what caused it
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Browny said if he gets through training tomorrow pain free and trains next week he'll play for Coburg against Bendigo.
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Looked a bit ginger though
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Until we see Browny play an actual game the speculation about his future will continue.
His line about Jack being a better player than Nick because he hasn't cried yet was a good one ;D
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Until we see Browny play an actual game the speculation about his future will continue.
His line about Jack being a better player than Nick because he hasn't cried yet was a good one ;D
Looks like he will be playing against the man who made Nick cry tomorrow.
That will be a sledge
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Brown is nearing comeback for Tigers
Greg Denham
The Australian
May 28, 2007
RICHMOND, which went tantalisingly close to its first win of the season against Essendon on Saturday night, could have star forward Nathan Brown back playing within a fortnight.
Brown has played 10 senior games in two years since fracturing his leg in two places, and has not played since round 17 last season. He will resume with VFL affiliate Coburg this weekend.
Richmond coach Terry Wallace confirmed yesterday that Brown was ready to kick-start his career that stalled in round 10, 2005. And the Tigers could have No.1 ruckman Troy Simmonds back playing at the elite level early next month.
Brown's start to 2007 has been delayed because of a stress reaction in the same leg he fractured, but he trained without pain last week and pulled up well.
"We're not expecting any more setbacks with both players," Wallace said. "We want to make sure, that when they come back, they stay back."
Simmonds missed the first two rounds with an ankle injury, and has not played since round six when he aggravated the problem against Geelong.
Late withdrawal Dean Polo, who dislocated his shoulder in the previous round, but played out the match, is expected to be available to face Brisbane at Telstra Dome on Saturday night.
Richmond remains winless after nine rounds, but Wallace was upbeat yesterday after his young team let a 23-point third-quarter lead slip.
"What cost us was our inexperience and lack of maturity with three minutes to go, but in 12 months that won't happen," Wallace said. "I'm reasonably happy with where we are, because I know we're on the right path. We all live for now, but in two years' time we'll be OK."
Full article at: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21803578-2722,00.html
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:pray :pray :pray :pray
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If Browny trains as well and as freely as he did last Friday then he'll play. Wallace said they want him to comeback via the VFL so they have control over how much time Browny spends on the ground whether it be 40 or 70 minutes. If he starts to feel sore in any way they can pull him off and keep him off.
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Snippet from Sportal:
Richmond football manager Paul Armstrong told Sportal on Monday that Brown would play for Coburg this weekend as long as he comes through the rest of this week's training unscathed.
"At this stage he is on track to play," Armstrong said of the dual All-Australian.
"The last two or three weeks he has been progressing well and training pain-free so unless something untoward happens this week, we expect him to play this week."
http://sportal.com.au/football.asp?i=news&id=99444
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Snippet from Sportal:
Richmond football manager Paul Armstrong told Sportal on Monday that Brown would play for Coburg this weekend as long as he comes through the rest of this week's training unscathed.
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Should be a very interesting day in bendigo indeed :thumbsup
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Brown aims to get a kick out of Tigers reserves
29 May 2007 Herald-Sun
Mike Sheahan
NATHAN Brown will start his comeback on Saturday with Coburg's reserves team, Mike Sheahan writes.
The Richmond star will play a maximum of 40 minutes in his first game of the season.
Richmond coach Terry Wallace said last night Brown would play in the reserves at Preston rather than travel to Bendigo to play at senior level on Sunday.
"It really didn't matter to us what level he played at," Wallace said.
"It's just a matter of getting some match time into him."
Wallace said Brown would play the first 10 minutes, rest the next 10 and return for the last 10 of the quarter, then follow the same routine in the second term before retiring for the afternoon.
If he is ready to play at AFL level after two games with Coburg, he will return for the Friday night Round 12 clash with Melbourne.
Ironically, it was the corresponding fixture in 2005 when Brown was cut down at the height of his brilliance, his leg broken in a collision with Matthew Whelan.
He had kicked 34 goals in 10 games; the Tigers were 7-3 and fourth on the ladder.
Brown, 29, said last night he hoped to play 10-11 games for Richmond this year.
"Terry wants the club to have a big second half of the year with myself and Troy Simmonds back in the side fully fit, Kent Kingsley and Will Thursfield back," he said.
"We need to make an imprint on the season in the second half.
"Our young kids are going to be good, but you do need your better players out there playing well for the young kids to stand up and play the sort of footy you want them to play."
Brown said he had struggled with the disappointment and pain of the past three months.
His season was delayed after a scan on the eve of Round 1 revealed a hot spot only 5cm below the break that derailed his career.
"Two weeks before the season started, we beat Collingwood up in Mildura and I kicked four or five. Everything was going fine and then it all went backwards," Brown said.
"That was 12 weeks ago now; Friday was the first time I've trained with the boys since. I've been up and down; good days and bad days. I'm starting to feel a bit better now, but I guess you just get to the point where you just get sick of the pain."
Brown has been having acupuncture after every main training session for the past five weeks.
"I've had a good couple of weeks where it has been pain-free. I feel very confident once I get over this hurdle I'm going to have some good years ahead of me," he said.
He admitted he felt "a little bit cheated".
"It was an unfortunate accident . . . that's football," he said.
He said he had no problem playing in the VFL, even at reserves level.
"Everyone's done it. Nathan Buckley played in the twos last year (at Williamstown). If Nathan Buckley plays in the twos, I don't see why I wouldn't," Brown said.
"It's just getting some miles in my legs in a game where the impact isn't quite as hard as it is as at AFL.
"I'll just get out there and get a few kicks and say to Terry at some point, 'Is that enough?'
"We're 0-9, but I don't think the ladder position really indicates the football we've been playing.
"When you're in a winning position six or seven times against good sides and you throw it away, there's certainly something to work with. That can be turned around a lot quicker than people think."
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,21810666%255E19742,00.html
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Brown confident on return
by: Paul Gough
Sportal
"I am pretty positive it is going to be good from now on," he said of his leg. "I have had a couple of hiccups and obviously saying that you never know what the future is going to bring but the conditioning over the last few weeks has told me that the leg is on the mend."
"I haven't played a lot of football over the last two years so I feel as though my body is still fresh," he said on Tuesday.
"I haven't had any big hits and it's just been the one bone that has been the problem so hopefully that adds years to the end of my career."
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"This is not a real indication of where the club is at," he said of the Tigers' dreadful start to the season.
"Six or seven times the club has been in front in the last quarter and we have lost games but there is something to work with there."
"Everyone sees us on the bottom of the ladder at the moment and the laughing stock of the AFL but it can turn around very quickly."
"And when we get senior players back in and we are able to perform to our level and are able to get the younger players to come on quicker than what we are doing at the moment then those people that are laughing at us at the moment, well we will be laughing at them."
Full article at: http://sportal.com.au/football.asp?i=news&id=99496
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Lets hope Browny doesn't get lost on the way out to Preston lol
While Brown was unfamiliar with the venue of Coburg's VFL fixture this weekend, he said he was just looking forward to playing again.
"We're playing out at Preston Oval wherever that is, I think, so I'll make my way out there and hopefully get a kick and it'll be good getting back to some grassroots foot," he said.
The two-time All-Australian will play a number of matches for Coburg and their reserves before a return to the senior squad is considered.
http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200705/s1936786.htm
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Lets hope Browny doesn't get lost on the way out to Preston lol
While Brown was unfamiliar with the venue of Coburg's VFL fixture this weekend, he said he was just looking forward to playing again.
"We're playing out at Preston Oval wherever that is, I think, so I'll make my way out there and hopefully get a kick and it'll be good getting back to some grassroots foot," he said.
The two-time All-Australian will play a number of matches for Coburg and their reserves before a return to the senior squad is considered.
http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200705/s1936786.htm
Would have liked it to be Bendigo :rollin
FYI Browny - Preston Oval is near the train line at Cramer Street ;D just a short stroll from Preston Market
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FYI Browny - Preston Oval is near the train line at Cramer Street ;D just a short stroll from Preston Market
Preston wouldn't be Browny's scene. Too many bogans/Pie fans lol.
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Comeback for Brown in Coburg reserves
Adam Cooper | May 30, 2007 | The Age
RICHMOND forward Nathan Brown will get his chance to unleash nine weeks of pent-up anger when he plays his first game for the season at the weekend.
But Brown's return after prolonged soreness in the leg he broke badly two years ago will have no bearing on the Tigers cracking their first win of the AFL season.
Instead, he will play 40 minutes for the Coburg Tigers against teenagers and little-known opponents in the VFL reserves.
Richmond decided to play its star forward in the reserves because of the greater recovery time he would get from playing a day earlier and closer to Richmond's club rooms, where he can have a recovery session.
The Coburg reserves play the Northern Bullants at Preston on Saturday, whereas the senior side plays in Bendigo on Sunday.
Although Brown is unlikely to play in the AFL for at least another three rounds, he made it clear yesterday that he could salvage something from the second half of the season.
"It was frustrating at the start of the year but week after week, it turned a little bit more to anger," he said when asked what it was like watching Richmond this season.
"I've been trying to hone that anger and turning that into a determination for the future because nought (wins) and nine (losses) … it's not a real indication of where the club is.
"Six or seven times, we've been in front in the last quarter and we've lost games, so there's something to work with there.
"Everyone sees us on the bottom of the ladder at the moment and the laughing stock of the AFL, people think we're battling.
"But it turns around very quickly and when we get senior players back in and we're able to perform to our level … those people who are laughing at us at the moment, we'll be laughing at them."
Two months ago, Brown was counting down to what should have been a massive personal 2007, given he had recovered from breaking his right leg in round 10, 2005.
But he developed a "hot spot" just before round one and only now is training without pain.
"You never know what the future's going to bring, but the conditioning over the last three weeks has told me the leg's on the mend," Brown said.
"I haven't played a lot of football over the last year-and-a-half or two years, so I feel my body is still fresh.
"I haven't had any big hits, haven't had any soft-tissue injuries.
"It's just been the one bone that's been the problem, so hopefully that adds years on to the end of my career."
Brown might have to wait until the split round 12 before making his AFL comeback as coach Terry Wallace and Richmond are determined to be cautious with him and ruckman Troy Simmonds.
Simmonds is yet to overcome an ankle injury and also will return via the VFL.
"We would rather have these guys up and running and have a vibrant end to the season and have them a part of that than have them out at any stage because we threw them in too early," Wallace said.
Tigers midfielder Dean Polo should return from a dislocated shoulder to play the Brisbane Lions on Saturday night.
http://realfooty.com.au/news/news/brown-comeback-in-coburg-reserves/2007/05/29/1180205249771.html
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I spoke to the Club fitness coordinator at training and he said Browny is definitely playing this Saturday for Coburg ressies. He also said Polo is available for selection. Browny did the whole training session.
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Brown ready for injury comeback in VFL
June 1, 2007 - 5:54PM
Sydney Morning Herald
Regardless of whether Nathan Brown successfully returns to football in a low-key hitout, his AFL comeback for Richmond appears a few weeks away.
Brown, whose career has been stop-start since his sickening broken leg two years ago, plays his first match of the season on Saturday for the Tigers' VFL affiliate Coburg's reserve-grade team.
Richmond assistant coach David King confirmed Brown was on track to play at least 40 minutes of Coburg reserves' match against Northern Bullants following a strong training session on Friday.
But no timeline had been put on the star small forward's AFL return.
"He's just rapt to be out there again. He'll play a half of football, and that's all he needs - just game time and we'll ramp him up from there," King said.
"He's been training for a long time, he's been frustrated for a long time. We just want to see him out there enjoying what he does best.
"I'm sure he won't be far off a return."
Brown excelled during the pre-season but was withdrawn from the Tigers' round-one AFL clash because of recurring soreness in the leg he splintered in round 10, 2005.
When Brown does return, it will add to the selection pressure in possibly the only area the Tigers are spoilt for choice - their forward line.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/Brown-ready-stuff-in-VFL/2007/06/01/1180205501535.html
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Jade Rawlings on ABC said Browny got through fine, kicked a couple of goals and told him he felt no pain. They'll see how he pulls up from the game.
:thumbsup