Re: King out for months : Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:34 pm  

King is a huge loss, but it's in an area that we're very strong in.

Re: King out for months : Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:35 am  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

King has always struck me as fit kind of guy. As daft as it sounds, I would wager he is a fast healer.

Doesn't work like that with ligaments though. There's only so much you could do, especially if its a cruciate. If that's gone, it's 6 months minimum.

Re: King out for months : Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:39 am  

inside_man wrote:

Doesn't work like that with ligaments though. There's only so much you could do, especially if its a cruciate. If that's gone, it's 6 months minimum.

How about Medial Ligaments?
How long can that be?

Re: King out for months : Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:34 am  

inside_man wrote:

Doesn't work like that with ligaments though. There's only so much you could do, especially if its a cruciate. If that's gone, it's 6 months minimum.

Yes you are right, after the graft has been done the knee is braced for quite a long period and the muscles wither. The rehab is long and I would say six months as a return is a minimum. Medials are not as severe as (I think) they can be fixed via arthoscope.

I still can't walk properly four weeks after having a chronoplasty and a meniscotomy (basically trimming the knee meniscus and filing down cartilage) and my knee is still twice the size it should be.

Hope King gets some good news anyway.

Re: King out for months : Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:56 am  

mark_m wrote:

Medials are not as severe as (I think) they can be fixed via arthoscope.

You want to have a word with your surgeon mate, he's clearly a pervert - why is he going in through your arris to fix your knee problem?

Re: King out for months : Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:21 am  

Fatbelly wrote:

How about Medial Ligaments?
How long can that be?

Depends on the grade of tear, 4-6 weeks probably about an average for that providing it hasn't completely gone and doesn't need surgery. They initially thought all i'd done was my medial and thats the time scale they gave me, only to come back a couple of weeks later after a scan and say my cruciate had gone as well. Ouch.

mark_m wrote:

Yes you are right, after the graft has been done the knee is braced for quite a long period and the muscles wither. The rehab is long and I would say six months as a return is a minimum. Medials are not as severe as (I think) they can be fixed via arthoscope.

Yeah, medials are nowhere near as severe.

I had my cruciate reconstructed in September, your back running around 8-12 weeks after but then it's still a couple more months at least until you can play contact sports. You also need a month or two of prehab especially if your medials gone, good few months in total regardless.

Re: King out for months : Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:50 am  

Timana Tahu is looking for a club?

Re: King out for months : Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:02 pm  

Fatbelly wrote:

With Matt, Coops and Chris out for the foreseeable future. We could have Ryan Atkins and Simon Grix in the centres with Riley and Joel on the wings.

Hodgson
Monaghan
Grix
Atkins
Riley

Myler
Briers

Morley
Monaghan
Carvell
Westwood
L Anderson
Harrison

Solomona
Clarke
Higham
Wood

That's a pretty good team by my book.

No offence to grix, who is a good utility player, but i feel he is too slow to play in the centres. Evans is more than likely going to be King's successor when he returns to Australia so i would suggest throwing in him now to gain some much needed experience before he becomes a first team regular next season.

Re: King out for months : Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:45 pm  

Rob Wire wrote:

In the worse case scenario lets say we have to release Matt King due to injury, i presume the insurance would cover any pay off and it wouldn`t count against the salary cap.
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Don't use the I word, last time I said we might have insurance on the players in these kind of incidents I had everything calling me daft.

As for people putting Evans before Monaghan at Centre, madness!

Re: King out for months : Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:54 pm  

Just stick Kingy in Paul Cullen's Oxygen Chamber.....he'll be reet before you know it.