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Player Watch #42 Mykelti Lefau Re-Signed 2026
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Young & Naismith; we'd have to delist
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Young is contracted.
Clarke contracted till 25.
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He did it in September, preliminary final.
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Yeah they dont take a full 12 months anymore.
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This can't be right, at least it's the biggest risk to reoccur between the 6-9 mth mark. I read he was hoping he'd be back for week 1 of the finals.
Which would put him at 10 mths. Still a risk though.
Fully pay him out of course.
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Lefau as a second or third tall in the forward line will be dangerous. He is also a player I can see getting better as the team up the field gets better. When he leads at the ball carrier he leads like an old forward and that can get the third defender in trouble.
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I liken him to Daniel Bradshaw in that Lions team as the leading 3rd tall type alongside Lynch and Brown.
Lefau alongside Lynch and Balta is enticing.
Yes, Lenny Hayes is a warrior. He finished the game off. Lefau did not. He walked the bench. I never said he was as tough as Hayes, nor did I doubt is toughness. There is obviously a range of ACL outcomes, from professional footballers who can continue playing or perhaps walking, and big footy posters who cannot.
What happened to lars surgery?
Remember that was a big thing a decade or so ago
Obviously no good?
Remember that was a big thing a decade or so ago
Obviously no good?
Yeah no good. They're a tbing of the past, they just don't last.
They just don't lars-t
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RICHMOND has committed to re-signing key forward Mykelti Lefau after he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament on Saturday night.
Lefau was added to the Tigers' rookie list at the end of the pre-season supplemental selection period in February, but now faces a long stint on the sidelines with his second knee reconstruction in two years.
The Tigers had been working on a two-year deal before the injury and are expected to lock in an extension in the coming weeks.
Mykelti Lefau is proving a dangerous target with a couple of strong efforts to earn two important goals for Richmond
Lefau was one of 10 players signed across the competition during the SSP and has been one of the most successful signings of the summer, kicking 14 goals from 10 appearances, including 3.2 against West Coast and four other games with two goals.
The New Zealander ruptured the ACL in his right knee at GMHBA Stadium – the opposite knee to the one he did in 2022 – and is the fifth Richmond player to suffer the season-ending injury this year. – Josh Gabelich
Lefau was added to the Tigers' rookie list at the end of the pre-season supplemental selection period in February, but now faces a long stint on the sidelines with his second knee reconstruction in two years.
The Tigers had been working on a two-year deal before the injury and are expected to lock in an extension in the coming weeks.
Mykelti Lefau is proving a dangerous target with a couple of strong efforts to earn two important goals for Richmond
Lefau was one of 10 players signed across the competition during the SSP and has been one of the most successful signings of the summer, kicking 14 goals from 10 appearances, including 3.2 against West Coast and four other games with two goals.
The New Zealander ruptured the ACL in his right knee at GMHBA Stadium – the opposite knee to the one he did in 2022 – and is the fifth Richmond player to suffer the season-ending injury this year. – Josh Gabelich
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Wretched luck for Mykelti.
Hopefully got a few more chapters to add to his already-wonderful story.
Hopefully got a few more chapters to add to his already-wonderful story.
that's the thing with acl injuries. they are still a bit of a mystery. they come from innocuous incidents are in my case out of the blue. and yes you are right there is a wide range of experiences post injury that can be vastly different from one patient to another however the one thing you absolutely cannot do is move laterally which for a player of this code makes it pretty limiting to play the game effectively. I would think continuing to rum without an acl would also damage other parts of the knee in the long run as well like cartilage. in Mt case I had a meniscus tear before the acl which possibly contributed to the acl going....
I miss him so much already 
Footy gods can GGF.
In a weird way, watching his improvement game to game in a bleak year was one of the few things to look forward to every week, akin to watching Richo do his stuff in the 90s/00s.
Just hope he can make it back and pick up from where he left off
Footy gods can GGF.In a weird way, watching his improvement game to game in a bleak year was one of the few things to look forward to every week, akin to watching Richo do his stuff in the 90s/00s.
Just hope he can make it back and pick up from where he left off
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He will be out until mid next year. Nice of the club to commit to him until 2026 so he isn't forced to rush back mid year and try to earn another contract.
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Hopefully he comes back well. We have some exciting forward options. Club is pretty excited about Gray and Fawcett
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Yeah at the tigers they take 2 years
