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Terrible news about Swallow, but who's gonna take over as captain in his absence?
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Terrible news about Swallow, but who's gonna take over as captain in his absence?
Depending who you listen to or read spitta will play round one or not be back to almost finals 2014. Hope the early recovery option is correct.
Do ya reckon Majak Daw will step up and be captan?
I think this calls for a Facebook poll.
All the best for a speedy recovery Spitta. I'm tipping that he'll spend a fair bit of his rehab time in the coaches' box on match days and will come back a better player for it.
Andrew Swallow arrived home from achilles surgery on Monday afternoon and according to Director of Medical Services Steve Saunders, the procedure went to plan.
"He's recovering really well. It's fantastic the surgeon (Dr Mark Blackney) was able to book him in early Sunday morning and get the achilles repaired straight away," Saunders told NMFC.com.au.
"The surgery went really smoothly, the surgeon was really happy with the end result and now Andrew has to rest at home for the next week or so before we get him into rehab."
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Saunders said the recuperation process is crucial.
"He'll be in a backslab (plaster cast) for a couple of weeks and then he'll go into a boot. He'll start taking partial weight through the boot at about week three or four.
"He'll be pretty mobile quickly but there's obviously a very careful and gradual loading program that needs to be done over many months. The short term plan initially is just to let the repair heal and let nature do its thing."
running by december sounds good, should be on track for round 1 next year then at the end of march
yea but roughead took 9 months from when he did the same injury to playing again so 9 months from now is around march and round 1 assuming no setback along the wayIt's assisted running that Steve's referring to. I wouldn't be expecting him to play seniors until round 5-10 best case.
yea but roughead took 9 months from when he did the same injury to playing again so 9 months from now is around march and round 1 assuming no setback along the way
No. There is one man to lead in Spitta's absence. And it could be the best thing that ever happened to him.I thought Robbo had an interesting idea of rotating the captaincy to give different guys the chance to lead than just jack ziebell like Basti, Wells, Scotty Thompson and possibly Cunners.
Might not be a bad idea.
We can all take solace in one thing.
He is in exceptionally good hands. The hands of Steve Saunders.