Josh Gibcus [merged]

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The player at your club ready to fire after a frustrating 2024

Brandon Cohen
afl.com.au
7 Dec 2024

Josh Gibcus (two games in 2024)
The Tigers had six first-round picks in last month's Telstra AFL Draft but there's another top-10 selection who coach Adem Yze will be even more desperate to get on the park. After an impressive debut season in 2022 in which he played 18 games and was named the club's best first-year player, Gibcus was sidelined all of last year due to persistent hamstring issues, leading him to travel to sports medicine centre Aspetar in Qatar for specialist treatment. The 2021 No.9 pick returned for the first two games of this year before a cruel ACL injury in the round one loss to Carlton prematurely ended his season. The defender is now back in training at Punt Road but the Tigers will be cautious in his comeback.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1262419/good-as-new-the-player-at-your-club-set-to-explode-after-frustrating-2024

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How They’re Travelling: Josh Gibcus

RFC website
3 Feb 2025

Q: Josh, how are you travelling?

Yeah, going good. Just starting to run this year, which is exciting and slowly building up more and more every week, which is good.

Q: On your footy, how do you reflect on the period of time since Round 1 last year (knee injury- against Carlton)?

It has been a bit of a tough year and slow. But it has just been about dedication to get back and knowing that I will be right at some point.

Ben Serpell our new High Performance Manager has been really good with us ACL boys and helping us out. (Particularly with the way he) explains our day to day and sets out the workload and how it will set us up for the next couple of months.

Q: Ben has spoken to us about wanting you to get back and stay back, is that the message to you too?

Yep, exactly that. I have been injured for a couple of years now and just getting fit and strong again is my focus. So yeah, good to be running and getting stronger.

Q: You went back over to Qatar again this off season?

I did. Went back over there and saw Dr Enda King. It is just another opinion and also (a chance for me to) take in everything that I can learn over there to bring back to Richmond. As well as just growing myself and (helping me) to have an even better understanding of the injury and how to go forward.

I have been doing a lot of rehab over the past couple of months. There has been a lot of hard work and a lot of dedication to strength and conditioning just to get back and running.

Q: What coaches are you working most closely with?

Well firstly, Steve Morris and Ben Rutten too. I am working close to those two. Really a lot about my skills and positioning.

I have been able to learn the system a lot better and while I am not able to play, I have gone about that by coaching with the VFL and AFLW (backs) as well.

Just while I can’t play, coaching it with them and learning some system better while I'm not actually able to (be on the field).

Read more: https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1711484/how-theyre-travelling-josh-gibcus

[Buddysucks]

Nearly 12 months post surgery and Josh is only just running…. WTF?
Seems way behind the norm for recovery and reading the above Q&A I get the sense he may end up being a guy that sits out a lot of footy cause he just doesn’t feel right.
Our previous S&C coaches should have been shot for the way they managed this kid.

[Tiger Khosh]

Yup Defs a long long recovery time. Can only guess they are being super super cautious after back 2 back long term injuries. If he can come back and not miss a game afterwards for the season then that will be a tick for the new S&C team.

[WilliamPowell]

Yup Defs a long long recovery time. Can only guess they are being super super cautious after back 2 back long term injuries. If he can come back and not miss a game afterwards for the season then that will be a tick for the new S&C team.

He had a clean up surgery just before Xmas

Speaking to one of our AFLW players who had a reco, she said a number of players both male and female had been alot of needing clean ups on their recos in 2024

Not excusing our previous S&C group just passing on what I was told

[Simonator]

Why not just give him 14-16 months, at this stage we have nothing to lose.

[Tigeritis™©®]

I suggest the club find a better surgeon to use.

Lets get a surgeon where our players don't need any post surgery "cleanups".

[Willy]

Why not just give him 14-16 months, at this stage we have nothing to lose.

At some point he needs to get games to devlop.

[WilliamPowell]

I suggest the club find a better surgeon to use.

Lets get a surgeon where our players don't need any post surgery "cleanups".

It wasn't just our players, it was across the comps.

Why not just give him 14-16 months, at this stage we have nothing to lose.

At some point he needs to get games to devlop.

That's true Willy but as Serpell said two significant surgeries in 2 years, need to get him absolutely right because the last thing anyone wants is him back in the rehab group after a couple of games because he hits injured again. Serpell said on the tt podcast that they are basically strengthening the 2 injuries. The knee and hammy because they both impact on one another. It was fascinating hearing him taking about ACLs

[Diocletian]

Why not just give him 14-16 months, at this stage we have nothing to lose.

At some point he needs to get games to devlop.

..another injury?