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  • goswannies
    Senior Player
    • Sep 2007
    • 3048

    #31
    Originally posted by undy
    Tom Mitchell - apparently in a hospital
    Tom Mitchell taken to hospital with suspected broken leg - AFL.com.au

    poor bugger
    Not great for him. But it depends if it’s the fibula, tibia or femur. Or even patella (though that is usually distinguished from the other bones)

    Fib? It’s kinda ok
    Tib? Not good
    Femur? Really, really not good.

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    • mcs
      Travelling Swannie!!
      • Jul 2007
      • 8149

      #32
      Originally posted by undy
      Tom Mitchell - apparently in a hospital
      Tom Mitchell taken to hospital with suspected broken leg - AFL.com.au

      poor bugger
      Feel sorry for Tom - sounds like quite a bad break for him.

      But can't say I feel too much sympathy for the Wees and Poos.
      "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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      • Blue Sun
        Senior Player
        • May 2010
        • 1438

        #33
        Mitchell is having surgery tomorrow and will miss the entire 2019 season. I do feel sorry for him, but I don't feel sorry for the Hawthorn supporters.

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        • AnnieH
          RWOs Black Sheep
          • Aug 2006
          • 11332

          #34
          Ohhhhhhh poor Tom.
          Not.
          Now who will the poos and wees give the ball to.
          Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
          Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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          • stevoswan
            Veterans List
            • Sep 2014
            • 8543

            #35
            Sad for Tom......deliriously happy for Hawks fans! May they weep long and hard......

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            • goswannies
              Senior Player
              • Sep 2007
              • 3048

              #36
              Originally posted by mcs
              Feel sorry for Tom - sounds like quite a bad break for him.
              Tib fib fracture. It does depend a little on the severity (compound, cominuted etc) but even at its best, it’s not good. Not good at all. Think Nathan Brown.
              I had the “pleasure” over a decade ago & I’m still affected. But elite athletes do have the best facilities and medical/rehab care giving the best opportunity for recovery.

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              • Velour&Ruffles
                Regular in the Side
                • Jun 2006
                • 896

                #37
                I'm not proud to admit it, but it turns out my sympathy for Tom is comfortably outweighed by a gloating pleasure in the blow it represents for Hawthorn fans. There, I admitted it. If that makes me a small person then so be it.
                And isnt that double tib/fib break the same thing that ended Jamie Lawson's career - leg never recovered properly from the surgery? Presumably there have been advances sincethen though.
                My opinion is objective truth in its purest form

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                • aardvark
                  Veterans List
                  • Mar 2010
                  • 5685

                  #38
                  Originally posted by Velour&Ruffles
                  I'm not proud to admit it, but it turns out my sympathy for Tom is comfortably outweighed by a gloating pleasure in the blow it represents for Hawthorn fans. There, I admitted it. If that makes me a small person then so be it.
                  +1

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                  • stevoswan
                    Veterans List
                    • Sep 2014
                    • 8543

                    #39
                    Warwick Capper.... The Wiz.... Wozza.... CAPPER!! ....not exactly sure what he's doing now.......comedy tours with Ricky Nixon I think but he wasn't half bad in his day, as these highlights show!

                    Fantastic Five: Best of Capper - AFL.com.au

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                    • dimelb
                      pr. dim-melb; m not f
                      • Jun 2003
                      • 6889

                      #40
                      Originally posted by stevoswan
                      Warwick Capper.... The Wiz.... Wozza.... CAPPER!! ....not exactly sure what he's doing now.......comedy tours with Ricky Nixon I think but he wasn't half bad in his day, as these highlights show!

                      Fantastic Five: Best of Capper - AFL.com.au
                      Thanks for that stevoswan, wonderful shots of Capper, a truly thrilling player to watch.

                      And it was followed by a similar collection of Goodsey! What a bonus!
                      He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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                      • KSAS
                        Senior Player
                        • Mar 2018
                        • 1763

                        #41
                        Originally posted by stevoswan
                        Warwick Capper.... The Wiz.... Wozza.... CAPPER!! ....not exactly sure what he's doing now.......comedy tours with Ricky Nixon I think but he wasn't half bad in his day, as these highlights show!

                        Fantastic Five: Best of Capper - AFL.com.au
                        Thanks also from me Stevoswan. Hadn't seen that footage against Adelaide before, the Wiz must've kicked a big bag that day. I recall his Open Mike interview when Sheahan asked him his fondest footy memory to which Capper replied seeing the Swans win the 2005 flag. It showed his true love for the club.

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                        • stevoswan
                          Veterans List
                          • Sep 2014
                          • 8543

                          #42
                          This is more so what he used to be doing but worth a look.

                          Check the young Hanners on the right, from the afl.com.au main page.



                          He looks about twenty years older now but that's what ten years of 'bash and crash' footy will do to you!

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                          • caj23
                            Senior Player
                            • Aug 2003
                            • 2462

                            #43
                            Originally posted by stevoswan
                            This is more so what he used to be doing but worth a look.

                            Check the young Hanners on the right, from the afl.com.au main page.



                            He looks about twenty years older now but that's what ten years of 'bash and crash' footy will do to you!
                            I was actually trying to work out who that was, I couldn't tell if it was Hanners or Kieran

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                            • Sandrevan
                              Warming the Bench
                              • May 2016
                              • 355

                              #44
                              My manager is a Hawthorn fan. He was quite upset when the news of Tom's broken leg was announced

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                              • goswannies
                                Senior Player
                                • Sep 2007
                                • 3048

                                #45
                                Originally posted by stevoswan
                                Warwick Capper.... The Wiz.... Wozza.... CAPPER!! ....not exactly sure what he's doing now.......comedy tours with Ricky Nixon I think but he wasn't half bad in his day, as these highlights show!

                                Fantastic Five: Best of Capper - AFL.com.au
                                I was at the Final at Waverley against the Hawks when Wazz took the “Mark of the Century”. One of the two highlights of the day (the other being his 100th for the season).

                                A year or two later I was in Queensland on family holiday. Dad took me into a clothing store called Umano (owned by Christopher Skase) when a large (to a kid) shop assistant sauntered up to me and (in rapid, almost incomprehensible English) said “Do you want my autograph?” It was Capper. He was nice and chatty, signed a Brisbane Bears flyer (which I’ve since lost) and before I left I told him I had a poster of him taking the mark on Landford. He told me to post it up to him and he’d sign it for me.

                                I returned home, got a post tube, wrote a letter and mailed the Langford mark poster (& a couple of others) off to him with a letter. After I mailed it, I realised I forgot to include return postage

                                Months went by and I was resigned to losing my color poster of Wazza’s self-proclaimed Mark of the Century when the post tube arrived in the mail marked Return to Sender. I still remember being disappointed but relieved that I got my posters back.

                                I opened the tube and pulled out the posters to find them all signed and included a couple of extra photos of himself standing in front of undearwear models (odd thing to send to a kid).

                                The Wiz was either really smart or really cheap, avoiding buying stamps by marking it Return to Sender. Either way, he was pretty generous to a kid who barracked for his former (& future) team. I still have the posters and the Langford one is framed.

                                I’ll always have time for Waz as he makes time for others.

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