Nathan Foley [merged]

[WilliamPowell]

Calf catches up with Nathan Foley
Matt Windley | July 06, 2009

RICHMOND midfielder Nathan Foley is likely to miss three weeks with a calf injury sustained in the Tigers' loss to Adelaide on Saturday night.

Coach Jade Rawlings said Foley injured his right calf at training last week but doctors had cleared him on Friday to play.

He said the injury became sore as the game wore on. Foley is now likely to have scans.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25738175-19742,00.html

I watched training on the sunny Gold Coast on Friday arvo.

Foley trained fully. Certainly didn't look like he was carrying anything

But my question is (like round 1) why send him back on ?

[Judge Roughneck]

Calf catches up with Nathan Foley
Matt Windley | July 06, 2009

RICHMOND midfielder Nathan Foley is likely to miss three weeks with a calf injury sustained in the Tigers' loss to Adelaide on Saturday night.

Coach Jade Rawlings said Foley injured his right calf at training last week but doctors had cleared him on Friday to play.

He said the injury became sore as the game wore on. Foley is now likely to have scans.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25738175-19742,00.html

But my question is (like round 1) why send him back on ?

Same as Coughlan, Cousins, Richo ..

so they make the injury worse 

[Muscles]

Wonder if they sent him back on because they are paranoid about their interchange rotations?

With Foley with a calf and Collins with a hip, that would have made us two players down in rotations.  We had a gameplan (by the looks of it from the TV) that involved running the ball thru Adelaide's zone, and without runners that plan would have gone up in smoke.

As it was, with Foley and Collins down and Cotch not fit enough to run out a half a game, it looked on the box that it left us three runners down after quarter time.

Did it look like that at the game?

[mightytiges]

Wonder if they sent him back on because they are paranoid about their interchange rotations?

That's most likely the reason. It was when Richo went back on against North.

[one-eyed]

Injury forces Foley out for 2009
By Richmond FC  Wed 29 July, 2009

Richmond midfielder Nathan Foley will miss the remainder of the 2009 season after succumbing to an ankle injury.
 
Foley will have ankle surgery and is expected to recover in time for the start of the Club’s 2010 pre season training.
 
The Tigers will apply to the AFL to place Foley on the long term injury list this week, with the view to possibly upgrading a rookie before the end of the season.
 
Richmond Football Operations Manager Ross Monaghan said the decision for Foley to have surgery was made in the best interests of the player and the club.
 
“Nathan has been restricted with his ankle since the early stages of the season, which has made it difficult for him to train, prepare for games and recover each week,” he said.
 
“We would love Nathan to be playing every game he can for the Tigers. He is such a professional and determined athlete, but the Club has a duty to ensure he plays unrestricted.
 
Foley played in all of the Tigers’ first 14 games this year, before being forced to sit out the last three matches.
 
He has maintained his usual high standard throughout the 2009 season, averaging 26 disposals, including six games of 30 touches or more.

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/81630/default.aspx

[Stripes]

Good move by the club. Make sure he is 100% right for next year. Infact they should do it for any of the players who are carrying any injuries.

The interesting aspect for mine is who they will elevate from the rookie list - my first instinct was Gilligan as we seem to have plenty of young rucks in the team at this stage so Browne may miss out. I have no idea how Gourdis is going so my guess is the little Fitzroy Crossing boy 

Stripes

[Tigermonk]

Good personaly l see him as one of our downfalls & could do trading him to another club
fire away

[Smokey]

Not good for my bloody dreamteam - I've been decimated by injuries in the last month!   

[Infamy]

Gourdis is injured so not sure who they plan to elevate
I would suspect that it'd be Browne as he's the only one playing regular senior VFL games
If Gourdis was fit then I'd want to give him a go, his pace at AFL level would be handy

[TigerTimeII]

good , we play better without him

trade him while he has currency

[one-eyed]

The injury means that Foley will be placed on the long-term injury list, allowing defender Jarrod Silvester to remain on the primary list.

Silvester was due to drop back to the rookie list, and be ineligible to play senior AFL football, after Matthew Richardson had recovered from injury and was due to come off the long-term injury list.

With Kayne Pettifer sustaining a season-ending cracked kneecap in the VFL at the weekend, the Tigers have the option of promoting another rookie in the final rounds.

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/surgery-ends-tiger-foleys-season/2009/07/30/1248546777790.html

[Ox]

Broken.
Dicuss.

[Owl]

Whats he actually injured with out of curiosity?

[Ox]

Combinedus Fuctus.

[the_boy_jake]

Should have traded him. Nowhere near elite and the injuries aren't gonna help.