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Was advised by the Carlton board moderator mediumsizered this post would be more suited to this board after Carlton fans took it as a personal attack coming from and Essendon supporter. Was merely trying to advise them of some news at their club:

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Judd bombshell after surgery stuff-up

Carlton fans hopes that Chris Judd will bring them finals success has taken a massive dive with the fresh revelation that he may break down as early as July/August 2008.

In what has been described as one of the biggest trades in AFL/VFL history, the Carlton football Club delivered to their members what some supporters described as the best news the club had delivered in years. The news, that Chris Judd will be wearing a Carlton jumper, may be short-lived. It may now be a question of how long will he last.

A leading Melbourne orthopaedic surgeon claims that the surgery Judd has undergone is simply a ‘stuff up’ and it will only be a matter of time before the injury worsens and Judd breaks down again, potentially permanently.

A source close to bomberblitz has suggested that leading Victorian orthopaedic surgeon David Young, also orthopaedic surgeon to Western Bulldogs, was contacted in 2007 in regards to the Judd injury but the news the Judd camp received was not what they were looking for.

Judd opted for surgery in Sydney which has since been claimed as a success, however, it has been suggested that the surgery was in fact a quick fix and not the type many leading orthopaedic surgeons would perform.

Since undergoing the surgery, Judd has completed many restricted training sessions and to the majority of spectators, he looks like he is regaining full fitness and ready for a solid 2008 season.
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and then it was backed up today by this:

Judd can teach, but can he play?
02 February 2008 Herald Sun
Damian Barrett

CHRIS Judd and losing.

The name just doesn't go with the word. But it soon may.

Judd, the constant winner, whose spectacular journey through football has coincided with the decline of the once-mighty club he decided to join last October, is not sure how he will cope with losing.

Of course, he will do everything in his power to ensure losses are not regular, but he knows Carlton's journey towards the kind of success that West Coast enjoyed is a long way off.

"It will be difficult, no doubt," Judd told the Herald Sun this week in Johannesburg, South Africa.

"But I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about it, either. The important thing for me is to get just as frustrated here as I would if I was playing at the Eagles, if you know what I mean.

"Once you lose that real disappointment after losing, then you almost become a bit of a passive victim.

"It is important I am like that and I assume that is the way I'll feel if we go down that field. But hopefully we are not going to have a season like we've had with three or four wins."

Speaking with Judd this week as well as watching him train and mingle with his Carlton teammates at a training camp in South Africa, it is clear he is in no rush.

Despite the problems that are yet to be eliminated with his troublesome groin, he exudes a man totally relaxed with his progress.

There is no rush, he says, to fast-track friendships with Carlton players, because he wants them to evolve the way relationships are meant to.

No rush, even, to get back out on the track and take part in main training drills with the senior squad.

Even at a session at Centurion Park in Pretoria he was confined, as he has been almost since his first day with Carlton, to running drills.

Given the NAB Cup starts in two weeks, there is not a lot of time remaining if he wants to play Round 1 of the premiership season.

Judd was cryptic when asked if his coach Brett Ratten was accurate in predicting he would return to competition by the third week of the NAB Cup.

"The honest answer is I'll return when I'm ready," he said.

Herald Sun: So when do think that might be?

"If it's not ready until the split round, say Round 12 in the middle of the season, then that's when it will be. I guess I've gone away from trying to pretend I can somehow control when my body is going to be fixed, because I have got no idea.

"Seriously, I've got no choice. It's either that or you play hurt and you end up finishing your career. That's where I am at. It has probably progressed slower than I would have liked, but sooner or later it will be fixed, and the important thing then is that it stays right."

HS: Are you saying it is possible you may not be ready for the start of the season?

"It's possible, but it's unlikely, but it's definitely possible. It's possible I will never play again, but if I was a betting man, I wouldn't be putting money on that. I'm hoping to play Round 1, it would be nice to get a hitout one or two games before then, but I won't be making the same mistake as I did last year."

The mistake was being in a situation where he played despite being seriously hindered by his injury.

Despite the frustration of not being able to train, Judd has impressed every person one speaks with at Carlton.

None more so than Nick Stevens, who will share on-ball roles with Judd.

"It's clearly been hard for him because he hasn't been able to train with us, but even with that, the boys can not believe how professional he has been in doing all the extras," Stevens said.

"And everyone says this - you find yourself looking at him a bit because he just looks so good at whatever he does. Even when he's doing the boring things, like running laps, he somehow looks good, just gliding around the boundary."

Judd has enjoyed the week in South Africa.

He's roomed with Stevens, Matthew Kreuzer and Ryan Jackson. He's tried to have one-on-ones with every teammate. He's gone out of his way not to settle into a clique.

"We're a young group, and it is good for all of us to broaden the horizons, experience something different," he said.

"And trips like these is where you build relationships and get to know people. Being new at a club, doing this has been good, I've got to spend time with people I may not normally spend time with, and I've been able to get to know everyone a bit better."

The last time Judd was new to a football club he was an 18-year-old forced to head to the other side of Australia.

This time, he's a worldly man who has maintained schoolboy and teenage friendships.

"Going to West Coast, I was mates with the guys I played footy with or I sat at home by myself," he said.

"Playing for a footy club in your home state, there is not the same sense of urgency. You've got people outside the footy club to catch up with in the meantime, and the relationships with players at the club will come with time."

Carlton believes it won the battle for Judd over Collingwood because it was able to sell an on and off-field package that appealed to a man who has never sought the huge profile he has nevertheless created.

The Blues, with significant assistance from chairman Dick Pratt, were able to convince Judd that Optus Oval was a better place to park than the Lexus Centre, and he admits to being drawn by starting a grand project from the lowest level.

"It seems like we have had a lot of press and there is a bit of excitement in the air, but I think realistically we are probably not quite as far down the track as some people suggest," Judd said.

"It is going to take a couple of years before we start playing good footy. But, it's going to be exciting and it's going to be exciting being with a group that is going to improve as dramatically as this group does, over that two to three year process."

Judd is excited by the untapped potential of his teammates, and gives special mention to ruckman Shaun Hampson.

He speaks with genuine excitement about working with Stevens, and youngsters Marc Murphy and Bryce Gibbs in the Blues' midfield.

He reckons Kreuzer is doing everything right.

Asked if he was familiar with the Carlton arrogance of the past, the quality that Ratten is desperate to reinstate, Judd said no to the specifics but yes to the generalities.

"When I was young I didn't take notice of what they said about Carlton, I just watched the games," he said.

"Arrogance and confidence are similar things. Generally, people are confident or even arrogant because they have a bit of a reason to be.

"This footy club hasn't had a reason to be confident in the past years because it hasn't won enough footy, so if you start winning enough games then that confidence, slash arrogance, is what happens."

Despite all the hype, or perhaps because of it, Judd wants to make one thing very clear on the eve of the 2008 season.

"It needs to be remembered I haven't done anything at all for this footy club," he said.
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A bit of Shannon Noll - Lonely backing up that article would be a good fit
 
Wow. That could all be a load of cr*p, or that could be massive news. Carlton would be seething if their prized recruit didnt get onto the park at all. I can understand why Carlton fans would treat you with disdain. This is news their precious little ears wouldnt have wanted to hear. Time will tell if this eventuates and if he really is going to have groin problems for the rest of his career.
 

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Although your story may be over exaggerrated?:confused:
No footballer is invincible once niggling injuries take hold.Judd may rise again to superstardom but he may also hang around injured for 3 years and be forced into a premature retirement?
Just deserts for Carlton some may say.:eek:
 
Kooley said:
he looked awesome at training a few weeks back.
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Clutch at them, you know you want too

How arrogant did he sound in that article. He thinks hes too good to speak to any of his teammates :D
 
erical said:
Although your story may be over exaggerrated?:confused:
No footballer is invincible once niggling injuries take hold.Judd may rise again to superstardom but he may also hang around injured for 3 years and be forced into a premature retirement?
Just deserts for Carlton some may say.:eek:
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You're right, some may say Carlton get their just deserts, but for me I would be saddened to see such a great footballer plagued by injury.
 
Sounds like he did alot of sitting at home by himself
 
Looks like Bee Dee was justified in this claim! First with the scoop.

If Judd had to retire because of this and I was a Carlton supporter, man I just don't know what I'd do.
 

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The injury story is bullshit. Wat isnt though is his arrogance. He refuses to even speak to the Carlton players such is his arrogance. Remarkable. Maybe Juddy isnt the bible licker everyone thought he was....
 
FuManchu said:
you're sounding a little jealous, perhaps the story is an eastern state media beatup
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It is a media beat up. I agree. What isnt a beat up is his comment about not talking to his teammates
 
Embers said:
It is a media beat up. I agree. What isnt a beat up is his comment about not talking to his teammates
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Where did it say he wasn't talking to teammates?

He just said he wants friendships to evolve naturally without being forced.

Someone's a little bitter still methinks.
 
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