Josh Smillie [merged]

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Here’s an excerpt from a newscorp article
“Smillie had completed a volume of running in the short off-season, but Richmond confirmed on Tuesday that he would need more surgery after scans revealed “little healing progress of his quad injury” despite it being classified as minor in nature.”

Link below if you want to read the entire article

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/injury-nightmare-continues-for-josh-smillie-with-top-pick-to-undergo-surgery/news-story/609774eb7ced8fc9b4f5bccda0fa336c

[Tiger Khosh]

How bizarre.

Haven’t all of his reported injuries today been listed as strains? I can’t remember anything mentioned about tears or tendon issues and you don’t get surgery over a strain.

[Tiger Khosh]

Ok I just read the clubs statement.

Reads like it’s a bunch of accumulated / recurring strains to the muscle that aren’t fully healing and restricting him for full range of movement so they’ve just decided to call out and go in for surgery to hopefully put an end to it.

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1928444/injury-update-josh-smillie?fbclid=IwY2xjawN_io5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR40v91lRGY39wgw9cWzE8WR1MVZ6to49AXHaIf6_8LHOaorrtE7CKxltJlSuA_aem_s-gh7Eef47PAb-xa0hC0Kg

[Simonator]

Ok I just read the clubs statement.

Reads like it’s a bunch of accumulated / recurring strains to the muscle that aren’t fully healing and restricting him for full range of movement so they’ve just decided to call out and go in for surgery to hopefully put an end to it.

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1928444/injury-update-josh-smillie?fbclid=IwY2xjawN_io5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR40v91lRGY39wgw9cWzE8WR1MVZ6to49AXHaIf6_8LHOaorrtE7CKxltJlSuA_aem_s-gh7Eef47PAb-xa0hC0Kg

Agreed with that, just really disappointing it took this long to come to the conclusion where Lalor was done so quickly and is able to have a full pre season now.

[ajGreen]

Oh dear

[Andyy]

What surgery is done for a strain though?

[Tiger Khosh]

What surgery is done for a strain though?

No bloody idea lol that’s why I initially thought it must be at least a partial tear.

[Andyy]

What surgery is done for a strain though?

No bloody idea lol that’s why I initially thought it must be at least a partial tear.

Surgery would suggest the tendon is at least partially torn OFF the patella from my basic research

I'm seeing a colleague tomorrow who is an orthopaedic surgeon so I'll ask her if she has any idea.

[WilliamPowell]

Agreed with that, just really disappointing it took this long to come to the conclusion where Lalor was done so quickly and is able to have a full pre season now.

But they're not the same injury

Lalor got surgery after ripping his hamstring tendon off the bone.

Smillie is a quad injury.. they obviously thought it would heal without intervention which I know I'm probably in the minority but I think is a good thing.

[Francois Jackson]

Sounds like another f up.

Anyone who thinks we start selecting defenders so early in a rebuild are kidding themselves and this is the reason.

He may be another gibcus this kid.

[MintOnLamb]

What surgery is done for a strain though?

Strainectomy. 😬

[the claw]

How many weeks out for something like this?

I agree with WP it was a strain and letting it heal naturally imo was the right thing to do.

Maybe a bit of criticism in the fact they let it go on a bit long.

[TigerLand]

Sounds like another f up.

Anyone who thinks we start selecting defenders so early in a rebuild are kidding themselves and this is the reason.

He may be another gibcus this kid.

Far out, how's the luck. I guess at point you have to ask questions about management, diet, program etc. but ultimately it's poo luck I guess.

Cotchin and Grimes are the example of bad run at it after drafted and came good. Not a pretty trend of injuries to our new draftees. May need to pick the least injury prone kids at Pick 2 and 3 at this rate.

[Andyy]

How many weeks out for something like this?

I agree with WP it was a strain and letting it heal naturally imo was the right thing to do.

Maybe a bit of criticism in the fact they let it go on a bit long.

Again, I have no idea what surgery is performed on a strain, not in any muscle at all. Never heard of it.

Surgery is for when there are issues with tendons, muscles and ligaments not being fully attached etc.

So if it's a tendon repair for attachment to patella, it's probably 6-12 weeks for a minor one, or 12-26 for a major one.

[Tiger Khosh]

They’re saying on the club website back to full training by end of Jan and match play in Feb. Pinch of salt and all that as we’ve heard it many times over but touch wood those estimations are correct.