Richo out for 10 weeks

[TigerTime]

terry should know, being an ex oplayer, that one always lies and hides little injuries to get out and play

when richo strained his glute, v north, he should have thought about richo and his age, but no , he thought about his own coaching career

now they are saying that the injury is not related to the glute injury, thats a blatant lie to cover ther bums, that buttock muscle strain is directly linked with the function of teh hamstring origin which is the tendon. they are trying to bluff us all to cover their heads. now terry should have said , ok based on all infront of me , im still resting u one me week and then re assess

danny screwed up cogs to try and save his career by playing through those stomach abductor injuries he had, he nearly finished cogs off at that point to salvage his own coaching career

terry is doing the same now, i can see it, you cant

so think about that

facts are terry is gone next year, so why should we waste time, lets start 2010 now.  give the new coaching team a head start in analysing the list

Read my lips, nothing to do with Terry this issue 

and u read my lips, he does have a part to play in this , stop protecting terry

2 weeks in a row, terry put an injured player back on the ground

[Stripes]

It has doubly backfired; having a one legged full forward cost us the game on Sunday, now he's out for 10.

Yes but why did they allow a one-legged full forward on the ground - why not take him off when it was obvious he wasn't doing any good there?

He was still taking a good defender and giving others players an opportunity to rest on the bench. Probably was though is that it further injuried him and allowed his opponent to easily run off him. A no win situation really. Stupidity by the player, medical staff and selection panel really. If we had another forward pushing for selection last week Richo would have been rested for sure now we need to find a KPF out of necessity.

This is starting to feel like 2007 all over again....

Stripes

[Chuck17]

terry should know, being an ex oplayer, that one always lies and hides little injuries to get out and play

when richo strained his glute, v north, he should have thought about richo and his age, but no , he thought about his own coaching career

now they are saying that the injury is not related to the glute injury, thats a blatant lie to cover ther bums, that buttock muscle strain is directly linked with the function of teh hamstring origin which is the tendon. they are trying to bluff us all to cover their heads. now terry should have said , ok based on all infront of me , im still resting u one me week and then re assess

danny screwed up cogs to try and save his career by playing through those stomach abductor injuries he had, he nearly finished cogs off at that point to salvage his own coaching career

terry is doing the same now, i can see it, you cant

so think about that

facts are terry is gone next year, so why should we waste time, lets start 2010 now.  give the new coaching team a head start in analysing the list

what a load of crap

[one-eyed]

Thankfully this thread is back on topic but regarding earlier posts in this thread - cut out the personal namecalling and slanging matches  . They have been been snipped.

[one-eyed]

Richo will be back: Tigers doctor
richmondfc.com.au
By Mic Cullen 12:20 PM Tue 05 May, 2009

DESPITE an injury that could mean his season is over, Richmond says favourite son Matthew Richardson's career will go on.

The league's oldest player will undergo surgery on his hamstring tendon on Tuesday evening, and he is expected to miss at 10-12 weeks, which would mean a return in round 17 at the very best.

But club doctor Greg Hickey said he expected Richardson to return later in the season, although he admitted Richardson's season could be over.

"He'll definitely come back – I've absolute confidence that he'll be right to play," he said at Punt Rd on Tuesday morning.

"We're obviously hopeful it'll be this year. It's an extended period out of the game and we'll be doing everything we can and he certainly will be as well – he's desperate to come back.

"I wouldn't say he's a certainty to play this year, but we're certainly optimistic that he'll be around for the latter part of the season."

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/76245/default.aspx

[Francois Jackson]

It has doubly backfired; having a one legged full forward cost us the game on Sunday, now he's out for 10.

Yes but why did they allow a one-legged full forward on the ground - why not take him off when it was obvious he wasn't doing any good there?

He was still taking a good defender and giving others players an opportunity to rest on the bench. Probably was though is that it further injuried him and allowed his opponent to easily run off him. A no win situation really. Stupidity by the player, medical staff and selection panel really. If we had another forward pushing for selection last week Richo would have been rested for sure now we need to find a KPF out of necessity.

This is starting to feel like 2007 all over again....

Stripes

it was 2007 all over again the day we got smashed by the Blues.

[Infamy]

terry is doing the same now, i can see it, you cant

You THINK you can see it, but at the end of the day you don't KNOW anything.

You're making a bunch of assumptions from an outsiders perspective with no real facts on what has really happened other than hindsight. You don't know any of the discussions that took place, you don't have any of the medical records, yet you are happy to make accusations against people you don't even know.

[TigerTime]

we are such a great team and club and always do the right thing lol

[WilliamPowell]

Surely when it comes to injuries and medical issues the coach, match committee etc are guided by the doctors. You the ones who spend how many years at school studying?

If the Doctor said he was right to play then you go with that. That's what the coach has done in this case to blame him for this is laughable.

If the doctor said he wasnt' right to play he wouldn't have played, so if the doctor said he's OK why wouldn't you play him?

I blame the doctors here ....

[one-eyed]

Here's the audio of Hickey and Cameron's press conference

http://www.sportsentral.com/pro/main/storyreader.aspx?sid=10383&sr=all

* Past 12-months had hamstring tendonitis. On and off last season and continued this season. Has continued to play well despite at times in the 2nd half of last year he was really struggling with it.

* Last week came off with buttock injury. Richo felt the glut injury was different from the above on-going condition. MRI confirmed it was a glut (strain in the obterator internus (sp?) ). Small muscle. Non-common injury. 15 past cases of rugby players didn't miss a game due to it.

* By midweek the buttock pain was gone an felt good before the game.. Just had the niggling hammy tendonitis. Had an acute incident early on in the game in a different region - ie. in the hammy. We felt it was an aggravation of the tendonitis.

* As for going back on the ground - difficult to stop a guy who is desperate to get back out there. He did a job and was able to function although not as his best. He didn't do any further damage to it. The scan yesterday showed the tear in the hammy tendon.

* It was clear it was an aggravation but in the past he has been able to get back out there and get 3 Brownlow votes. When he says he wants to get back out there you have to give him a lot of respect.

* Asked about public perception being that the club stuffed up playing him in the first place. Cameron said we've been through what happened. Confident the right decision was made and the injury is seperate from the one done against North. Backs out medical and fitness staff. Richo trained fully by Wednesday. Hickey confirmed it's the same leg as the buttock injury.

* Richo is desperate to comeback. Hickey confident he'll come back if not this year then definitely the next. Joint injuries and constant soft tissue injuries are what end careers. Apart from this injury his body is in great nick. This time off may give his tendonitis problem time to settle down and it may even prolong his career. So no shutting of the book yet.

* Cameron said the injury isn't career ending. Expect him to come back towards the end of the year. Up to his mind whether he wants to go on and we'll sit down with him at the end of the year but talking to him today he is keen to go on.

* Cameron said we won't be answering match committee decisions today.

[TigerLand]

Frightening, they talked as if he'll most likley be out for the rest of the year.

[Gracie]

Frightening, they talked as if he'll most likley be out for the rest of the year.

Missing 10 weeks leaves him 6 or 7 games. He then has to regain match fitness which will take a couple of games. Therefore he will only be at normal output levels for say 4 games = may as well be the season

[Francois Jackson]

Frightening, they talked as if he'll most likley be out for the rest of the year.

Missing 10 weeks leaves him 6 or 7 games. He then has to regain match fitness which will take a couple of games. Therefore he will only be at normal output levels for say 4 games = may as well be the season

TAKE A BOW RICHMOND FOOTBALL CLUB

EFFECTIVELY RUINED ONE OF THE CLUBS GREAT CHAMPIONS

NOT JUST WALLACE'S FAULT BUT THE REST OF THOSE stuff H E A D S HEADING THE FITNESS GROUP.

BAN ME DO WHATEVER YOU WANT FOR AVOIDING THE SWEAR FILTER BUT THIS IS stuffin rubbish

[TigerLand]

Frightening, they talked as if he'll most likley be out for the rest of the year.

Missing 10 weeks leaves him 6 or 7 games. He then has to regain match fitness which will take a couple of games. Therefore he will only be at normal output levels for say 4 games = may as well be the season

TAKE A BOW RICHMOND FOOTBALL CLUB

EFFECTIVELY RUINED ONE OF THE CLUBS GREAT CHAMPIONS

NOT JUST WALLACE'S FAULT BUT THE REST OF THOSE stuff H E A D S HEADING THE FITNESS GROUP.

BAN ME DO WHATEVER YOU WANT FOR AVOIDING THE SWEAR FILTER BUT THIS IS effIN rubbish

Good passion Daniel.

Would you send him to Germany? Cogs is flying?

[TigerTime]

lmao at going to germany

tool

richo is 34 , is not part of future plans, now rooke and cogs have been successful at the german experiment, but more ppl fail to pull through that treatment than succeed, the stats prove that. same as the malceski knee surgery, that techique has more failures than passes. if richo was 24 and it was a last resort , sure try germany, but his career is finished

its time rfc move on and fwd

clean sweep right across the club