Browny gone for the season

[mightytiges]

Browny will play   

Anthony Hudson just said on SEN that Browny is gone for the year and needs more work with his injury. Well someone is wrong ???.

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According to Ch 7 news Browny is out for the season and he is going to have the rod in his leg removed tonight  .

[Jackstar]

Browny was right as of yesterday

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The Footy Show will apparently cross to Browny sometime tonight.

[mightytiges]

Browny said he pulled up a bit sore today. He hasn't re-done his hammy but he most likely will miss this week and possibly the next so everyone thought best to get the rod out of the leg now so he's right and ready for preseason training and 2007. He'll go in for surgery tomorrow to have the rod taken out.

[PuntRdRoar]

Everyone else is pulling there best players out we might as well do it to

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Brown's year ends, surgery likely today
Rohan Connolly
The Age
August 18, 2006
 
NATHAN Brown's season is over. The Richmond star will have surgery immediately to remove the rod from his right leg, which was broken midway through last year.

Brown was given a good chance of returning from a hamstring strain for the Tigers' game on Sunday against Carlton, but pulled up sore from Wednesday's training session.

Brown, medical staff and coach Terry Wallace decided to bring forward the surgery he was due to have at season's end. The operation to remove a 32-centimetre long stainless steel rod could be performed as early as today.

The news is the final disappointment in a frustrating 2006 for the two-time All-Australian small forward, who pulled up sore after the Tigers' round-three loss to West Coast in Perth, and missed the next seven matches. He played seven on return before straining his hamstring in Richmond's loss at the hands of St Kilda three weeks ago.

Richmond football manager Paul Armstrong conceded last night Brown's season had turned into something of a disaster.

"He worked really hard to get back for round one, but wasn't quite right, then he had that lengthy spell out, then he was just starting to find some form when he did his hamstring," Armstrong said.

"He was pretty disappointed when he pulled up sore this morning … he was always going to have surgery to remove the rod, we thought it would be best sooner than later."

http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2006/08/17/1155407955672.html

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Early end for Brown
18 August 2006   
Herald-Sun
David Hastie

RICHMOND star Nathan Brown's injury-plagued season is finally over with the talented forward to have surgery this week to remove the rod from the leg he broke last year.

After hurting his hamstring in Round 17 against St Kilda, Brown suffered hamstring tightness while training on Wednesday and was expected to be sidelined for another two weeks.

Tigers' coach Terry Wallace said the decision to bring Brown's season to a premature end was endorsed by medical and coaching staff.

"We just couldn't see what impact he was going to be able to have after being out for five or six weeks," Wallace said last night.

"Off the back of everything else that's happened we just didn't see he'd be able to have any major impact to our last part of our season by staying out there.

"The player wants to play, he always wants to play but once we went through the process of the fact he wouldn't be available until Round 22, common sense, I guess, prevailed.

"We always get the player in when it's anything that's season-defining or a lengthy period of time just to let them know what everyone's thoughts are on the pathway we believe is best for that player at the time."

Brown, who played 10 games in 2006, made his comeback from a broken leg in Round 1. He suffered the injury in a sickening clash with Melbourne's Matthew Whelan in Round 10 last year.

While Wallace said he was disappointed for Brown, he described the move to opt for early surgery as a "footy decision".

"On Wednesday he was starting to actually look really good. He looked like he was going to be back in town, but he just pulled up a bit sore from that session with the hamstring," Wallace said.

"Basically the doctor said he hadn't re-torn it, it was just the hamstring was really tight.

"They said he was going to be restricted, not be able to train this week for the rest of the week, which meant he would miss on the weekend and then he'd be doubtful next week because he wouldn't have a full week on the track."

Brown is expected to be out of action for four weeks after surgery.

Wallace said Brown could now put his nightmare 2006 season behind him.

"I think, almost in his own mind, there'd be almost a sense of relief," Wallace said.

"(But) I reckon if you spoke to him there'd be a sense of disappointment, that he'd love to be out there playing with the boys but he now knows he can go in and get the rod taken out and get on with it."

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,20166641%255E19742,00.html

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Time was right to stop
2:21:47 PM Fri 18 August, 2006
Mark Rasmussen
Sportal for afl.com.au

Speaking from Punt Road Oval on Friday, Wallace and the rest of the coaching staff believed this was as good a time as any for Brown to have the rod removed from his leg.

"Once we got the reports on him that basically he didn't redo the hamstring but it was so tight that it restricted him from playing this weekend, then he would have had an interrupted preparation going into next week.

"To continue him on when he would have missed six weeks to play one last game in round 22…we just didn't think there was any point," he said.

Full article at: http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=290415

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Richmond utility Nathan Brown had surgery last Friday to remove the rod from the leg he broke in 2005 in a similar injury to that of Maguire. Richmond football manager Paul Armstrong said Brown was expected to be running again in a month.

http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2006/08/21/1156012475196.html

[mightytiges]

Browny's wound came "undone" with an infection but they stitched it up and he's okay now. Back running in a  week.

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From the Age:

Wallace also said the metal rod had been taken out of forward Nathan Brown's leg.

"He is coming along quite good, he's back to being able to run again so I think that progression is exactly where we'd expect it to be," he said. "He's very confident in himself that it will make a huge difference … probably more to his ability to train day in, day out. What was happening in the past was he has only really been able to get one major training session in a week so we expect a lot more continuity over the summer months."

http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2006/09/01/1156817101581.html