Injury Dane Swan

[Subtemperate]

Hope he gets back. Don't want it to end like this.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

The commentators at one point mentioned an injury to the syndesmosis. If that's the case, combined with foot fractures, this injury is not a garden variety fibula fracture by a long shot. Description at least is similar to the injury which ended Snell's career at Geelong (although I think Snell also fractured his tibia), with foot fractures thrown in for good measure.

FFS!

 

[Navy Cream]

Good luck, Dane. This game can be unfair to its champions. I hope he comes good. True character, true champion. Love u Swanny, hate u Pies.
Respect in rivalry.

 

[esc0bar]

Let's wait for official word from the club. There is enough people (especially from opposition clubs) being doctors and leg specialists in this threAd. Injury looked bad but nothing official from the club about the severity.

 

[1892]

Spoke to a pies trainer an hour or so ago and he said Swanny was really upset (obviously). Booked in for surgery about lunchtime today so is under heavy sedation at the moment.

Very doubtful he will be back this year as cast is a minimum 12 weeks then about the same for rehab.

May be the end of him playing in my opinion he doesn't live for footy and he was 50/50 for next year anyway.

Thanks for the info. People often see Swan as a carefree larrikin, but you don't became a star of the comp without drive and determination. Swan being upset is a side of him that is rarely seen.

 

[Kirby]

His injury is indicative of where we are at the moment.. the team looks like a shambles and experimental. 5 years of rebuilding and still so much uncertainty as to who we should put here and there.. swans injury is somewhat of a cry for help. When are we ever going to look stable enough. Its uncertainty week in week out i feel again this yr.. im getting sick of it.

There is something seriously wrong with you. Please go seek medical help.

 

[BringouttheGimp]

There is something seriously wrong with you. Please go seek medical help.

Yeah dude.. what do you do for a crust.. night shift at Woolworths pick/packing?

 

[Kirby]

Yeah dude.. what do you do for a crust.. night shift at Woolworths pick/packing?

I drive a rubber bus..........I look forward to meeting you

 

[Kappa]

It's a severe break. He is lucky the bone didn't come out his leg. That's not his ankle that folds under him, it's his leg.

That's career over then

 

[Chameleon75]

12 weeks in a cast seems ridiculous

I went down in the same way as him a couple of years ago, strained my hip and knee, bruised the fibula and snapped my ankle in two places. All up it was 12 weeks immobilisation, 6 weeks in a cast and another 6 weeks in the cam boot.

Now granted I don't have access to the same rehab resources as he does, but it took 12 months to get everything back to normal, even now its only at around 90%. Problem with that period of immobilisation is the muscle atrophy and the shrinking of tendons and ligaments, flexibility in range of movement becomes an issue.

 

[Pera]

I feel sick

 

[Glenhope]

That looked very nasty. Swan's player's weight did the damage. Ouch. Not good.

 

[1892]

Video of it here, when you slow it down the top of his foot got folded up against his shin. Ouch.


http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/syd...n/news-story/f49c5b91cbe96117946f83501df15aeb

 

[Mortslah]

Really hope to see him play again, understand if he chooses to retire.

either way, 36 will forever be his imo.

 

[Shellz]

 

[Land of the Giants]

I was at the game last night, and sorry to see Dane Swan get hurt like that, but not surprised it happened at the SCG.

That's the third broken leg there in 6 years, joining Mark Seaby and Gary Rohan. Plus numerous other really bad injuries - PCLs, knees, hamstrings, ankles, you name it, many of them season ending.

The SCG has been an injury graveyard and must be one of the most dangerous grounds in the AFL.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

Not to dispute what you're saying, but what is the basis for causality here? There has to be a ground somewhere that has the most injuries...

 

[Land of the Giants]

Not to dispute what you're saying, but what is the basis for causality here? There has to be a ground somewhere that has the most injuries...

They used to think it had something to do with the centre square being close to the cricket pitches.

And Seaby's broken ankle wasn't the only injury on the day that happened, there were quite a few.

 

[Land of the Giants]

Not to dispute what you're saying, but what is the basis for causality here? There has to be a ground somewhere that has the most injuries...

Actually, when you think about it, the number of really bad injuries at the SCG is way out of proportion to the number of times it gets used. It was only used 8 times a year in the last 14 years, when the Swans started playing 3 games a year plus finals at ANZ Stadium. To my knowledge their was never any broken bones at ANZ despite all the bad press it got.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

I'd be curious to know more about the centre of the ground and the pitches. Do they use drop-ins like at the MCG?

 

[Chameleon75]

Actually, when you think about it, the number of really bad injuries at the SCG is way out of proportion to the number of times it gets used. It was only used 8 times a year in the last 14 years, when the Swans started playing 3 games a year plus finals at ANZ Stadium. To my knowledge their was never any broken bones at ANZ despite all the bad press it got.

but this has nothing to do with swans injury, his leg was pinned under his own weight

 

[boxy99]

Doesn't look good

 

[davywap]

His injury is indicative of where we are at the moment.. the team looks like a shambles and experimental. 5 years of rebuilding and still so much uncertainty as to who we should put here and there.. swans injury is somewhat of a cry for help. When are we ever going to look stable enough. Its uncertainty week in week out i feel again this yr.. im getting sick of it.

This post is dumbfounding.

 

[davywap]

Doesn't look good

needs more tatts

 

[BringouttheGimp]

This post is dumbfounding.

Oh really.. when have you looked at a buckley coached side over the last 5 yrs and said yep.. thats what i want.. i for one have not. 5 yrs man!