Injury Tracker 2023

[What'sinaname]

Seen this many times before and I remain disappointed that the club always cops it sweet instead of going hard and berating the opposition clubs, hack journos and players who cause the problems. It’s a defeatist attitude and mentality that makes it worse because of the people who do these things get away with doing wrong without any accountability or feedback. Even at this late stage the club can respond appropriately but I won’t hold my breath.

Huh. Nick has had a hard tag for three weeks now and his influence has been limited. He will no brownlow votes in the last 3 games he's played.

[lazzadesilva]

[Dark Beanie]

Macrae sustained finger injury 2 weeks ago in the VFL.
Required surgery, out for a minimum 3 weeks.

No sure of Carmichael injury status, will have to wait for the injury update (he did play last weekend in the VFL but out injured this week).

[LaurieHolden]

Nick Daicos will live in a Hyperbaric chamber- back in 5 weeks (first final)

Lock him in there with The Pope, Healing Hans, the Dalai Lama, the red priest Thoros of Myr, Dr Nick Riviera and the bloke that put Darth Vader back together.

[BazBoy]

And the Leyland Brothers

[Magpie Russ]

Daicos believes he went into the Hawthorn clash with bone bruising.

He had just five disposals against the Hawks, tagged out of the game by Finn Maginness.

"I felt something in my knee a little bit when I went on the ground and it was pretty sore and then in the third quarter on the impact of the Hawthorn player I straight away knew that something wasn't right," Daicos said.

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Was the perfect game for him to be 'managed' but they trot out the Roll Royce vs the Holdens. WTF

[ANNODAM]

And this is why you cannot risk a player, even a slight mishap can & does turn nasty.

Fkn hell!

[Pies2016]

^^ ^
How many players do you reckon are playing at 100% full fitness at the end of round 20 ? If every player pulled the pin because they weren’t 100 %, we wouldn’t have a competition by round 10.
Occupational hazard. Time to move on.

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Let’s face it, Nick needed a rest way before last week.
He should’ve been managed.

[What'sinaname]

Jeff Browne said that while the prognosis is good, not to get our hopes up about Nick

[What'sinaname]

Bruz is suffering knee soreness

[K]

Yep, Naicos is done for the year

If it's 6 weeks, he could be back by the 2nd or 3rd week of the finals.

Sports doc Peter Larkin, quoted in The Australian:

6 weeks is "optimistic" but possible;
"unusual" injury seen in skiers;
won't be able to jog for 4 weeks.

[David]

Very good news re: Murphy (as reported in the pre-game thread):

https://twitter.com/TheRunHomeSEN/statu ... 7713169409

MCRAE: Just on Nathan Murphy he is chance to play. I don't know how and Friday night might be too soon but it doesn't look like it will be 2-3 weeks

Edit: full report here:
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2023/08/08/ ... ly-return/

[LaurieHolden]

Collingwood’s Head of High Performance Jarrod Wade has provided an update on the status of a number of injured players ahead of Friday night’s Round 22 clash against Geelong.

Defender Nathan Murphy, who suffered a syndesmosis injury during Saturday’s loss to Hawthorn, could be back into the side sooner than expected following a positive return to the club.

“He looked like he had a decent ankle injury, we got a scan done and that showed some damage there. Those sorts of grade one or grade half syndesmosis injuries can respond really differently, and this is one of those ones as the saying goes ‘we assess the man and not the scan’ and that’s what we are doing with Murph,” Wade said.

“He’s bounced in today, earlier in the week really, really positively. So, he’ll be an assess during the week, we’ll be expecting that he gets up and does some of training on Wednesday and we’ve just got to decide whether that level of training is comfortable for us to pick him or not.”

“There will be an assessment go on through our main training session and we’ll be able to update after that. He’s recovered a lot better than what we probably first suggested, so a real positive one there.”

Young midfielder Nick Daicos is set for time on the sidelines following a direct impact injury to his knee.

“There was some bone bruising in there and the scan revealed a little bit of a hairline fracture. It’s on the very minor end of that at the moment, and we know that fractures are typically that five-to-six-week mark and we know that Nick will miss the final three rounds certainly. We’ve also got the bye weekend up our sleeves which gives us a bit more time to get to work and he’ll be available sometime throughout the finals,” Wade said.

There were two late exclusions from Collingwood’s VFL side set to take on Werribee after injuries to Josh Carmichael and Will Kelly.

Carmichael experienced referred pain in his hamstring during the week and a scan revealed inflammation in his hip.

“He had medical treatment through that (area) over the weekend that caused him to be unavailable for the game. He started to complete rehab and doing bike sessions, and he’s started to build up some strength throughout that area,” Wade said.

“We’re not expecting any issues and he will be an assess on Wednesday to see if that issue has settled down enough for him to be able to complete the main training session, and should he get through he’ll be available on the weekend.”

Kelly experienced an ankle roll during the captain’s run on the day before the VFL fixture, ruling him out of Sunday’s clash against Werribee.

“Sometimes those ankle rolls can settle within 24 hours, but his got progressively worse. He’s had a scan and revealed some ligament damage so it’s a bit on the more significant side of ankle rolls and he’ll miss another game this week,” Wade said.

“He’ll be restricted to some straight line running duties and then we’ll look to drop him into training next week and then we’ll assess his availability beyond that.”

Young midfielder Finn Macrae continues his recovery from a thumb injury, taking positive steps to a return to football.

“Really positive news earlier this week that he’s now been cleared for contact, should he get through Wednesday’s training session which we don’t see as being an issue, he’ll be available to play,” Wade said.

Defender Charlie Dean has also made more positive movement towards a return to football, following his long term foot injury.

“He’s progressing really well. He’s getting into more drills and more drills and more drills, and has started to get into some contested work, started to get into some more dense work where he’s having to react and apply all the agility things we’ve worked on with him in rehab,” Wade said.

“He’ll just keep on increasing his training volumes and training intensity over the coming weeks, with a view still to get him right for day one of pre-season next year.”

Watch the full update:
https://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/news/1 ... e-round-22

[ANNODAM]

Finally, a silver lining!