Training 2022 - 2023 Off-Season and Pre-Season training Watch

[hawkman]

They really want people to attend these games with those timeslots

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

The HUN article today says "Lewis has 10 days to report improvement in the knee", and remove the need for surgery.

Early signs suggested surgery wasn't needed, but they're monitoring his improvement and won't be able to rule it out for a few weeks.

Can't see him playing in the first month, and we can only hope it doesn't need surgery.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Damn.

The silver lining is Harley Reid will be coming home if Lewis misses a large chunk of the season.

 

[DannyJ]

Kawhi Leonard was reported to originally suffer a right knee sprain. A few weeks later he went in and got surgery and on partially torn ACL.

Hopefully not the same situation, but the clubs lack of information makes me really nervous

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[TylerDurden]

 

[Dipper]

From ACL Sprain Treatment in Dallas | Dallas Physical Therapy & Orthopedics

What’s the Difference Between an ACL Sprain and an ACL Tear?​

The two main types of ACL injuries are a sprain and a tear. An ACL tear is as it sounds – a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament. These tears are generally classified as either partial or complete. A sprain simply means the ligament is stretched, not torn. There are three main grades of ACL injuries, which we list below.

• Grade 1: The ligament is preserved, and the joint is stable, but the ACL has undergone minimal stretching and may have experienced microscopic tearing. Typically, surgery is not required for ACL sprains.
• Grade 2 (partial tear): There has been some tearing, and the ligament fibers have separated. The knees are in a state of mild instability. Depending on the person’s level of exercise and the extent of instability, this rating may or may not necessitate surgery.
• Grade 3 (complete tear): The ligament fibers have been completely torn in ACL tears. The ligament is entirely torn, and the knee joint is unstable. Surgical intervention is frequently required for a complete tear of the ACL, as the level of knee instability is high.

Reading this it would seem that they believe/ hope he's a grade 1 but it's possible that it's a grade 2.

 

[matey]

Fingers crossed with Lewis’s injury but let’s not lose hope as I am sure that Sam, Simmo and co are working their butts off in planning and preparing the best way forward and how to get the best out of our team. With better/quicker delivery from the back half and midfield into the forward line hopefully it will make the forwards look a lot better

 

[flinchfree]

Sicily won games off his own boot as a forward. Was tracking just fine but we had a need for good kicking behind the ball and he absolutely excelled at it.

He is an elite defender now. But he wasn't a lost cause as a forward just jaw droppingly good.

Hardwick too was doing fine.

Yeh, you're not remembering ALL of what Sic is as a forward.
Has the turning circle of the Titanic and quickness side to side is not great. As such, he provides next to no defensive pressure when the oppo are exiting their own half.
His Superman strength of reading the ball in flight and timing for the mark are made for the backline, unlike up forward where our below average entry disposal and kicking the sherrin on top of his head allowed defenders to more easily negate that marking ability.
When he's down back, and his opponents only have eyes for the ball and trying to time their own run at it, he can ease those players under the ball because he's just damned superior at it, or simply soar and take it himself.
I am Sicily's biggest fan, was easily at the front of the line demanding he get his run in the first team, but it was his move into the backline that revealed his AA quality.
Not to mention that golden boot of his to set teammates 50m away in best position to receive and get on their bike is god like.

Don't even hope a move forward for the blonde prince into existence, would be an absolute mistake.

 

[DannyJ]

Reading this it would seem that they believe/ hope he's a grade 1 but it's possible that it's a grade 2.

Id agree with that

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[cryptor]

Yeh, you're not remembering ALL of what Sic is as a forward.
Has the turning circle of the Titanic and quickness side to side is not great. As such, he provides next to no defensive pressure when the oppo are exiting their own half.
His Superman strength of reading the ball in flight and timing for the mark are made for the backline, unlike up forward where our below average entry disposal and kicking the sherrin on top of his head allowed defenders to more easily negate that marking ability.
When he's down back, and his opponents only have eyes for the ball and trying to time their own run at it, he can ease those players under the ball because he's just damned superior at it, or simply soar and take it himself.
I am Sicily's biggest fan, was easily at the front of the line demanding he get his run in the first team, but it was his move into the backline that revealed his AA quality.
Not to mention that golden boot of his to set teammates 50m away in best position to receive and get on their bike is god like.

Don't even hope a move forward for the blonde prince into existence, would be an absolute mistake.

I'd consider 'Sicily forward' almost an unknown now. He hasn't genuinely played forward since 2017 when he'd barely played 30 games.

I'd keep him down back, but if we did need to throw him forward I'd be expecting a far different (and better) forward than we saw in his early years.

 

[Mississippi]

Yeh, you're not remembering ALL of what Sic is as a forward.
Has the turning circle of the Titanic and quickness side to side is not great. As such, he provides next to no defensive pressure when the oppo are exiting their own half.
His Superman strength of reading the ball in flight and timing for the mark are made for the backline, unlike up forward where our below average entry disposal and kicking the sherrin on top of his head allowed defenders to more easily negate that marking ability.
When he's down back, and his opponents only have eyes for the ball and trying to time their own run at it, he can ease those players under the ball because he's just damned superior at it, or simply soar and take it himself.
I am Sicily's biggest fan, was easily at the front of the line demanding he get his run in the first team, but it was his move into the backline that revealed his AA quality.
Not to mention that golden boot of his to set teammates 50m away in best position to receive and get on their bike is god like.

Don't even hope a move forward for the blonde prince into existence, would be an absolute mistake.

Absolutely agree. He’s played some ordinary footy as a forward.
But he’s a supremo as an intercepting mark and laser kick at half back.
But for injury, he’d be the reigning AA CHB.

Only a fool of a coach like Sheedy would make a move like that.

 

[Dewnior]

Reading this it would seem that they believe/ hope he's a grade 1 but it's possible that it's a grade 2.

I would have thought the scans they took would have told if it's grade 1 or 2 (assuming the swelling allowed)

 

[kazzooka]

Yeh, you're not remembering ALL of what Sic is as a forward.
Has the turning circle of the Titanic and quickness side to side is not great. As such, he provides next to no defensive pressure when the oppo are exiting their own half.
His Superman strength of reading the ball in flight and timing for the mark are made for the backline, unlike up forward where our below average entry disposal and kicking the sherrin on top of his head allowed defenders to more easily negate that marking ability.
When he's down back, and his opponents only have eyes for the ball and trying to time their own run at it, he can ease those players under the ball because he's just damned superior at it, or simply soar and take it himself.
I am Sicily's biggest fan, was easily at the front of the line demanding he get his run in the first team, but it was his move into the backline that revealed his AA quality.
Not to mention that golden boot of his to set teammates 50m away in best position to receive and get on their bike is god like.

Don't even hope a move forward for the blonde prince into existence, would be an absolute mistake.

That's what I was intending to say. It appears I forgot the word "not" he was not jaw droppingly good as a forward. He was doing okay and good enough to earn a spot and had some really good moments taking big marks and kicking long goals.

As a defender though he is as good as anybody.

If we need him forward he can do it. However out of jeka, dgb, Frost, blank Weddle, scrimshaw he'd be the last I'd swing forward.

 

[WWSD]

Damn.

The silver lining is Harley Reid will be coming home if Lewis misses a large chunk of the season.

Harley Reid and Finn Callaghan will make for a good midfield pairing.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Harley Reid and Finn Callaghan will make for a good midfield pairing.

Gimme!

Hardwick - Blanck - DGB
Scrimshaw - Sicily - CJ

Meek - Newcombe - Ward
Amon - Maginess - Day

Moore - CHF - Reid
Butler - Lewis - Brockman

MacDonald - Callaghan - Mackenzie - Ruck

 

[TylerDurden]

Yeh, you're not remembering ALL of what Sic is as a forward.
Has the turning circle of the Titanic and quickness side to side is not great. As such, he provides next to no defensive pressure when the oppo are exiting their own half.
His Superman strength of reading the ball in flight and timing for the mark are made for the backline, unlike up forward where our below average entry disposal and kicking the sherrin on top of his head allowed defenders to more easily negate that marking ability.
When he's down back, and his opponents only have eyes for the ball and trying to time their own run at it, he can ease those players under the ball because he's just damned superior at it, or simply soar and take it himself.
I am Sicily's biggest fan, was easily at the front of the line demanding he get his run in the first team, but it was his move into the backline that revealed his AA quality.
Not to mention that golden boot of his to set teammates 50m away in best position to receive and get on their bike is god like.

Don't even hope a move forward for the blonde prince into existence, would be an absolute mistake.

Sam has used him as a mid a bit this summer.

 

[matey]

So excited to see Jai, Ward and MacKenzie starting in the middle at centre bounces together over the next few years and don’t get me started on all the others that will rotate through there …… I can see it!

 

[wahawk]

I would have thought the scans they took would have told if it's grade 1 or 2 (assuming the swelling allowed)

You probably answered your own assumption

 

[Simon Crawshay]

Sam has used him as a mid a bit this summer.

I'd have Sicily as a defender first, midfielder second and forward last personally.

Was only a small sample size last year but he actually looked really good as a midfielder.

We all know how good the Blonde Prince is at intercept marking / reading the flight of the ball of half back but one of his strengths that gets underplayed is his evasiveness. He has a sneaky little sideways shimmy and he is strong as an ox through his core which both are great midfield traits to have.

I'd love to see him as our starting CHB with stints in the middle this year. Would be great viewing.

 

[hawkman]

I'd consider 'Sicily forward' almost an unknown now. He hasn't genuinely played forward since 2017 when he'd barely played 30 games.

I'd keep him down back, but if we did need to throw him forward I'd be expecting a far different (and better) forward than we saw in his early years.

Plus anytime he has a set shot he looks shaky

 

[Brant]

I'd have Sicily as a defender first, midfielder second and forward last personally.

Was only a small sample size last year but he actually looked really good as a midfielder.

We all know how good the Blonde Prince is at intercept marking / reading the flight of the ball of half back but one of his strengths that gets underplayed is his evasiveness. He has a sneaky little sideways shimmy and he is strong as an ox through his core which both are great midfield traits to have.

I'd love to see him as our starting CHB with stints in the middle this year. Would be great viewing.

If we can improve our Forward & Midfield pressure & not let the ball race out of our Forwardline then I really like the idea of him playing loose* across the Centreline. If he can play across the Centreline then he can easily & accurately reach our F50m off one-step. That kind of quick ball into F50m would be horrendous to defend.

I don't see him as a 'midfielder', as such, but as a Centreman - for sure.

*no chance an opposition coach leaves him loose across the Centreline, but that's the dream!

 

[Coach Killer]

Rest easy my feathered friends. Jeka and Kozi are ready to take the Key posts up forward and dominate.

Wishing the boys a healthy and dominant 2023.

Go gettem.

 

[Bugs1977]

Damn.

The silver lining is Harley Reid will be coming home if Lewis misses a large chunk of the season.

I'm a Detroit Piston fan who's already had our best player (Cade Cunningham) out for the NBA season so I'm not too sure what this will do for my mental health if Lewis misses the season. The only thing that would ease my pain is if both my teams got to draft Harley Reid and Victor Wembanyama.

 

[Simon Crawshay]

If we can improve our Forward & Midfield pressure & not let the ball race out of our Forwardline then I really like the idea of him playing loose* across the Centreline. If he can play across the Centreline then he can easily & accurately reach our F50m off one-step. That kind of quick ball into F50m would be horrendous to defend.

I don't see him as a 'midfielder', as such, but as a Centreman - for sure.

*no chance an opposition coach leaves him loose across the Centreline, but that's the dream!

I reckon he'd kick 20 to 30 goals a year as a centreman as well.

Get him anywhere within 60m of goals and he can roost it through post high.

 

[Dewnior]

You probably answered your own assumption

Don't think so. The MRI would have confirmed the sprain which would usually take 1-2 weeks to heal which is why they are waiting the 10 days.

 

[Coach Killer]

I love the amount of people in here that think your ACL can only be ruptured or be fine...

Careful. Don’t use the words tear or rupture on this thread. Some posters are on the brink, we’ll end up with a rush on our hospitals and we don’t have the 4000 beds in ICU that Dan promised us.

It’s a sprain, strain, knock, bruise, discomfort, hinderance, tweak, stretch, whatever - just don’t use the words tear or rupture at all.

Carry on.