Richo in doubt for Tigers
richmondfc.com.au
By Mic Cullen
5:20 PM Tue 08 July, 2008
THERE was good news and bad news on the injury front at Tigerland on Tuesday – Matthew Richardson is doubtful, Will Thursfield is definitely out, but Mark Coughlan made it though his game in the VFL.
But it will be Richardson that the Punt Rd faithful will be hanging out to hear about – after battling a knee to get through to the break, the hamstring has become an issue and coach Terry Wallace wasn't sounding all that confident about the Brownlow chance lining up against the Eagles.
"He's certainly not over the line," he said on Tuesday. "We'll have our major session on Thursday, and he'd need to be able to come through that.
"When we had the original scans done, he got cleared of any major damage to the hamstring – it's been as much the knee that's been giving him problems over a five or six week period.
"We wonder whether that just put a little bit of stress and strain on the hammy, because it's the other side – it's one of those where you overplay it a little bit.
"He's still got a bit of work to do."
Thursfield has not played since round 11, and although named for the clash with Carlton a couple of weeks ago, Wallace said he too was still having hamstring issues.
"He wasn't right in that week – we thought he might have been right, and he was getting tendon soreness down lower in the hamstring, and they are a little more difficult to predict.
"When they're tendon-related, they can just hang on a little bit."
But the good news is that 2003 Dyer Medallist Coughlan got through three quarters of VFL reserves for Coburg before being taken from the ground for the final term to rest.
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