Dion Prestia [merged]

[Andyy]

Bloke should hang em up. You'd think he's getting at least $2mil over his last 3 years.

[Damo]

Bloke should hang em up. You'd think he's getting at least $2mil over his last 3 years.

Why should he?
You wouldn’t

[Andyy]

Bloke should hang em up. You'd think he's getting at least $2mil over his last 3 years.

Why should he?
You wouldn’t

I have a 4th kid coming this Friday haha.

Prestia has none.

Honestly we shouldn't have extended him so early.

[Damo]

Bloke should hang em up. You'd think he's getting at least $2mil over his last 3 years.

Why should he?
You wouldn’t

I have a 4th kid coming this Friday haha.

Prestia has none.

Honestly we shouldn't have extended him so early.

Agree
It’s a club mistake.

More importantly, congrats and good lucky man. Hope mum and bub get through it all safe and sound.

[Lozza]

Dion to miss a month according to 7news.

So in club supporter time that equates to 8 weeks as I understand.

[Andyy]

Bloke should hang em up. You'd think he's getting at least $2mil over his last 3 years.

Why should he?
You wouldn’t

I have a 4th kid coming this Friday haha.

Prestia has none.

Honestly we shouldn't have extended him so early.

Agree
It’s a club mistake.

More importantly, congrats and good lucky man. Hope mum and bub get through it all safe and sound.

Thanks mate very kind of you. Excited not to be pregnant anymore. This one has been really hard on her.

[lamington]

Congrats little Andy and Bub! A OE salutations to mum also for doing the heavy lifting

[Willy]

Good luck with the new tiger.

[camboon]

Congratulations on your little miracle

[one-eyed]

Gun Tiger grounded by ANOTHER soft-tissue injury

Dion Prestia is expected to miss multiple weeks with a hamstring tear

By Josh Gabelich
afl.com.au
21 March 2022

RICHMOND will be without Dion Prestia for the next few weeks after scans confirmed on Monday the star midfielder has suffered a hamstring tear.

The 29-year-old was substituted out of last Thursday night's round one loss to Carlton early in the second quarter, continuing his frustrating history of soft tissue issues.

Prestia was hampered by repeated hamstring issues throughout last season and has managed only nine games in 2021 after playing nine times in 2020.

AFL.com.au understands the former Sun isn’t suffering strains in the same spot, rather strains low, high and on the belly of the hamstring making the issue even more frustrating for Prestia and the high performance department at Richmond.

The three-time premierships midfielder looked set to turn the corner in 2022 following a standout pre-season that many inside the Swinburne Centre had labelled among the top few trainers on the track over the summer.

Richmond coach Damien Hardwick expressed his disappointment for Prestia in the aftermath of the season-opener fade out at the MCG, a sentiment shared by the football department who had hoped the Victorian would get a clean run at it this season.

Prestia accumulated 10 touches in the opening quarter and was a key reason why the Tigers had burst out of the blocks against the Blues at the MCG.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/724557/gun-tiger-grounded-by-another-soft-tissue-injury

[mightytiges]

Would that Doc in Germany with the calf blood injections be of use?    Seemed to help Grimesy earlier in his career with his continual hamstring problems.

[Knighter]

Would that Doc in Germany with the calf blood injections be of use?    Seemed to help Grimesy earlier in his career with his continual hamstring problems.

Burge doesn't believe in him.  Doesn't think anyone knows more than him.  He is starting to look like part of the problem not the solution.

[one-eyed]

Update from Peter Burge:

Dion Prestia, hamstring

"It's quite a frustrating injury for us... Dion's had a fantastic preparation this year, uninterrupted, done a lot of work, put a lot of kilometres in, done a lot of strength work, and we've ended up with a soft tissue injury. It is on the minor side which is good news, he was out running today... With hamstring injuries, typically you injure the biceps muscle which is the large hamstring muscle and there are two other muscles that support that, the semitendinosus and semimembranosus. He's injured the semimembranosus component of his hamstring and the lower third of that, so it's on the minor side. Typically they turn around fairly quickly and that's what we're hoping will happen in this case. We're hoping to progress his running later in the week and then we'll have a more definitive timeline, but we're hoping it's fairly short-term."

Source: RFC website

[one-eyed]

7news tonight showed vision of Prestia running at training today with Kmac and Floss. Saying he could be back by round 4.

https://twitter.com/7NewsMelbourne/status/1506177288584380416

[one-eyed]

RICHMOND HOPEFUL DESPITE “FRUSTRATING” PRESTIA INJURY

By Andrew Slevison
SEN
25 March 2022

Richmond assistant coach Adam Kingsley says the club remains hopeful regarding Dion Prestia.

The three-time premiership midfielder suffered a hamstring injury in last week’s season-opening loss to Carlton and is out of the line-up for Sunday’s Round 2 meeting with GWS.

It is yet another soft tissue issue for Prestia who has played just 19 matches since the beginning of the 2020 season, also dealing with a syndesmosis injury in that year.

The 2019 best and fairest is arguably the Tigers’ most important player, especially around the ball, and there remains confidence that the 29-year-old can have a major impact in 2022 and beyond.

“Dion’s had a couple of issues in the last couple of years,” Kingsley said on SEN Breakfast.

“He’s had a syndesmosis in his ankle and then a few hamstrings. We haven’t yet lost confidence in Dion, but just the inconsistent nature of missing a couple, coming back, playing a chunk, missing a couple. Last year was a bit disappointing. The whole shortened pre-season really compromised his preparation to be fair.

“We’re hoping that this is just a hamstring injury that’s quite incidental and then he can move on because he has had a really strong pre-season.

“He was the one guy that we thought was really going to jump back to where he’s been in the past. You could argue in the first quarter-and-a-half that he played (against Carlton) he was outstanding.

“It’s a frustrating one. We’d love to have Dion out there each and every game, but we haven’t this week and we’ll see what that means moving forward whether he can get back.

“It is minor so whether we’re cautious with it and make sure or whether we get him back in for round three, I’m not sure what the planning is.”

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2022/03/24/richmond-hopeful-despite-frustrating-prestia-injury/