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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on April 03, 2009, 02:44:55 PM
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Johnson out for half of season
richmondfc.com.au
By Mic Cullen 12:31 PM Fri 03 April, 2009
FORMER Richmond skipper Kane Johnson has been placed on the long-term injury list and will miss at least the first half of the season.
The 31-year-old hurt the knee twice over the pre-season and had it operated on, but ongoing soreness has forced the move.
But with further surgery not expected to help the injury, rest is the prescribed solution.
Coach Terry Wallace said he expected the former Crow to be back later in the year.
“Kane Johnson was put on the long-term injury list throughout the week, which is a little disappointing, but from that point-of-view, he’ll miss eight weeks and that’ll have him back for the second half of the year,” he said at Punt Rd on Friday morning.
“He had two episodes with the knee over the summer and had an operation on the knee, so it’ll just take a bit of time.
“It’s more patella (kneecap) – it’s from being knocked rather than it being strained.
“Both of them were done on the ground, so knee into hard surfaces created both the injuries, unfortunately they just take time.”
Wallace reiterated that the Ben Cousins hamstring injury was at the minor end of the scale.
“As we’ve said the whole time, Ben’s wasn’t a bad hamstring," he said.
“We’ll have to be a little bit cautious with it just because it is on the same leg that he had it [previously], albeit definitely a different site, so it has nothing to do with his old injury.
“It’s only a light strain, and I would have said a normal scenario would have only had him out for two games, but probably we’d lengthen that by a week.
“Rainsy (Andrew Raines) had an operation on his knee, had a bit of cartilage removed, so that’s usually a four or stuff injury.”
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/74317/default.aspx
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Its funny that our "depth" we all thought we had in our list and the competition for spots on the team is almost gone after one round.
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not quite, still have connors, collins ,cotchin and coughlan, thompson also.. that could all seriously challenge for senior berths in the short term...thats not bad
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Does anyone know how far away is Cogs ?
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Its funny that our "depth" we all thought we had in our list and the competition for spots on the team is almost gone after one round.
It was always a myth.
Our 'depth' is a lot of players all around about the same level. Unfortunately that level's not all that good.
I'll say this much though if Sugar plays more than one more (farewell) game for the rest of the season then our situation will be more desperate than I thought.
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sugar wont be missed
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sugar wont be missed
great call. totally agree
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I know he has little fans on here and he is slowing down with age but I actually thought we missed Sugar's older head as far as leadership last week to calm the side down early on especially with a new leadership group in place.
Does anyone know how far away is Cogs ?
Cogs has been back into fully training for the last couple of weeks. He played for Coburg last week and had 60% game time according to Rawlings in EOTT. He should play for the Burgers again on Sunday against Casey. I'm guessing they will give him 2-3 weeks in the VFL to get his match fitness back up to 100% and him pushing for senior selection. If he didn't miss those couple of weeks due to that meniscus tear in his knee he would've played round 1.
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I know he has little fans on here and he is slowing down with age but I actually thought we missed Sugar's older head as far as leadership last week to calm the side down early on especially with a new leadership group in place.
if sugae had of played last week, it would have been a 120plus loss
we did not miss his, lack of leadership, what last week proved was that sugar has never ever lead by example thus no one in the team knows how to lead because their past captain never ever showed them the way
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I know he has little fans on here and he is slowing down with age but I actually thought we missed Sugar's older head as far as leadership last week to calm the side down early on especially with a new leadership group in place.
if sugae had of played last week, it would have been a 120plus loss
we did not miss his, lack of leadership, what last week proved was that sugar has never ever lead by example thus no one in the team knows how to lead because their past captain never ever showed them the way
That is just a totally ridiculous thing to write.
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I know he has little fans on here and he is slowing down with age but I actually thought we missed Sugar's older head as far as leadership last week to calm the side down early on especially with a new leadership group in place.
if sugae had of played last week, it would have been a 120plus loss
we did not miss his, lack of leadership, what last week proved was that sugar has never ever lead by example thus no one in the team knows how to lead because their past captain never ever showed them the way
That is just a totally ridiculous thing to write.
Seconded
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I know he has little fans on here and he is slowing down with age but I actually thought we missed Sugar's older head as far as leadership last week to calm the side down early on especially with a new leadership group in place.
if sugae had of played last week, it would have been a 120plus loss
we did not miss his, lack of leadership, what last week proved was that sugar has never ever lead by example thus no one in the team knows how to lead because their past captain never ever showed them the way
That is just a totally ridiculous thing to write.
Seconded
Thirded.
I wish the cretin would pee off back to PRE.
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I know he has little fans on here and he is slowing down with age but I actually thought we missed Sugar's older head as far as leadership last week to calm the side down early on especially with a new leadership group in place.
if sugae had of played last week, it would have been a 120plus loss
we did not miss his, lack of leadership, what last week proved was that sugar has never ever lead by example thus no one in the team knows how to lead because their past captain never ever showed them the way
That is just a totally ridiculous thing to write.
Seconded
Thirded.
I wish the cretin would pee off back to PRE.
Fourthed :P sorry just had to push it too far(and i dont agree with the sugar caning, pardon the pun!)