Nathan Brown likely to miss two matches with groin tear

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Nathan Brown likely to miss two matches with groin tear
foxsports.com.au
April 24, 2009

Richmond coach Terry Wallace says forward Nathan Brown will probably miss two AFL matches with a slight groin tear.

Wallace has confirmed that the injury has been the reason for Brown's poor form in the last fortnight and it has come to the point where the Tigers cannot keep him on the field.

Wallace also says Ben Cousins will wait another week to ensure he has recovered from his round-one hamstring tear before he resumes in the VFL.

Wallace said he continues to receive strong support from the club board and management as speculation runs rife about his future.

The Tigers take a 0-4 win-loss record into Saturday night's clash with North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25379585-23210,00.html

[Mr Magic]

Shame they didn't say he's been playing with the injury for 4 weeks.

[one-eyed]

Groin not form forced Brown out
richmondfc.com.au
By Mic Cullen 5:25 PM Fri 24 April, 2009

THERE'S a fair bit going on down at Punt Rd in the injury and form departments.

Four players have gone from last week's side that lost to Melbourne, three for form and one for injury.

But that one for injury is Nathan Brown, and his diminished performances this season led coach Terry Wallace to have to defend the 31-year-old forward against claims that he had been dropped.

"He's been struggling with a groin – he's had a slight tear we thought he could continue to play with, but it got to the stage last week where he's just not able to move the way he was comfortable with," Wallace said on Friday.

"He's had to have injections over the last week or so to play, and it just got to the stage where he just couldn't do his job to his capabilities."

High-profile recruit Ben Cousins is being forced to prove his fitness over a longer period than most players before Wallace will allow him to play again, given he has been forced from the field with hamstring tears in his last two matches.

"Look, he's done all the training, and we just got to the stage where we thought we'd give him an extra week," Wallace said.

"With the circumstances behind his injuries, it's longer than you would normally take, but he's different from a normal player in the circumstances he's coming back from.

"I wanted to have him on the training track for a week-and-a-half to two weeks where you know that he's done everything in his powers, then we make a decision, do we bring him back through senior footy or VFL football."

Trent Cotchin and Andrew Raines will play for Coburg this weekend, while injury-plagued centreman Mark Coughlan has proved himself at VFL level and will return to the AFL this weekend, having not played since round 12, 2006.

"It is a great story – it's perseverance, and working through the trials and tribulations that happen to all of us in our lives,” Wallace said.

"It's almost been three years who was actually leading our best-and-fairest in his last game that he played in that year after winning one a few years earlier.

"Clearly he'll help us, because he's a contested, tackling player, and they're probably two of the areas that's been most focused on about our footy over the last month."

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/75594/default.aspx

[Hellenic Tiger]

So does that mean that since his groin means he's out as opposed to him facing the axe this week if no injury took place he will play for Coburg before he plays for Richmond again. I certainly hope so and I hope the coaching staff have the gonads to make sure this happens rather than he recover and walk straight into the senior side.. Football mercenary and charlatan.

[Go Richo 12]

Like Tambling,Browny has copped it rough imo. i think we want to drop players for playing below par as opposed to dropping a player due to the fact that are no longer in our best 22. Blinger and browny are in our best 22, imo, even out of form. Oh by, so  is simmo! Shultz, touch and go, im still waiting on cleve to replace him!

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Brown's chance to prove his worth
Andrea Petrie | April 25, 2009

RICHMOND has rested injured forward Nathan Brown so it does not have to make a decision about his playing future while he is struggling to find form.

With the Tigers' ageing list and Brown's contract up at the end of the year, the club has chosen to give his injured groin time to heal so he has a chance to prove his playing days are not behind him.

Coach Terry Wallace said yesterday that Brown, 31, had suffered a groin tear that had required him to have injections before he could take the field over the past few weeks.

He said that while the club thought he could continue to play with the injury, "it got to the stage last week where he's just not able to move the way he was comfortable with".

"He's had to have injections over the last week or so to play, and it just got to the stage where he just couldn't do his job to his capabilities."

A defensive Wallace said Brown was the side's best player in its last pre-season game, adding "You don't go from that sort of form to really battling".

http://www.theage.com.au/news/rfnews/browns-chance-to-prove-his-worth/2009/04/24/1240079864075.html