Goodes and Davis to miss round 1?

[pillowtalk]

Originally posted by Nico
My point was that when MOL is bad he is very bad, and that seems only when is under done like he will be in R1. I just hope he is not an embarrassment in R1. Then again there is a chance what Roos is saying is utter garbage and a ploy. As Robert Shaw said recently, top players only need a couple of hitouts to get to near top form.

Doubt Mick will be ready by round 1. He's barely running and will not play in Newcastle this weekend.

[midaro]

Methinks even Hawthorn may be a challenge for us, come Round 1.

[Ryan Bomford]

Originally posted by pillowtalk
Doubt Mick will be ready by round 1. He's barely running and will not play in Newcastle this weekend.

Geez, after 5+ months of rest, relaxation and gentle exercise he's still in this state? Makes you wonder when he'll be available.

[Jeffers1984]

Originally posted by Plugger46
Micky generally plays a shocker first up. In 2003 he missed the first 3 games, then couldn't get near it against Hawthorn in his first hit-out. Then he bounced back the next week, helping us get over the dees which got our season rolling.

Yep remember that game. Man was he on fire in the last qtr against the Dees.

[Snowy]

Well when you get to bone and bone in knees and chronic tendonitis you become a week to week proposition.

[Ryan Bomford]

Originally posted by Snowy
Well when you get to bone and bone in knees and chronic tendonitis you become a week to week proposition.

I'm no medico but is MOL's condition arthritis (cartilage deterioration and bone on bone, as you suggest?) or tendinitis? If it's the latter, rest should do it good.

It may be that they are allowing MOL the maximum recovery time before they step up his training program. Let's hope so.

[NMWBloods]

I think it's chronic tendonitis. The rest should help but it will flair up again pretty easily and regularly.

[DST]

With MOL, by virtue of the position he plays (FF) he only needs to be 75% fit to be of use.

He may blow up like a puffer fish if he ventures to far from goal regulary, but as long as he has relatively free movement in his knee then he will be dangerous.

Opposition coaches will also have to sit their second best defender on him no matter what, as he can turn a game in a couple of minutes. This means the third defender for O'Keefe and the fourth for the resting ruckman/Goodes which can only be helpful to the team as a whole.

MOL is critically important to our structure and will play even with a half or so in Canberra next week.

Way I see it is, you play MOL & Goodes and leave Davis & Crouch for the next couple of weeks.

DST

[swansrule100]

play oloughlin whenever he can move basically, hes the sort of player who always has an impact

[dread and might]

^^ yep. Also, as DST said: He will draw the second best defender all the time. I noticed late in the season that he was playing with no crap all over his knees, which, though minor, seems encouraging to me.