Danny
13-02-2005, 08:43 PM
Ben Hart's hamstring problems are continuing this pre season. He will be rested from the Wizard Cup in the hope of him being fit for round one.
Hart seeks specialist
Sportal
Adelaide has sought further specialist examination of vice-captain Ben Hart's hamstring injury.
Hart has been examined at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.
John Reid, Adelaide's general manager of football operations, said: "We just wanted to determine whether we had missed anything to do with Ben's injury. The bottom line was that we hadn't and we were told to keep heading down the same path."
Hart, 30, still hopes to play in the opening round of the home-and-away season - against West Coast at AAMI Stadium on Sunday, March 27.
The four-time All-Australian and dual club champion has played 276 AFL matches since 1992, but back and hamstring problems restricted him to only six appearances last season.
Reid said the latest problem with Hart's hamstring had occurred three weeks ago and was 'the same leg, different spot'.
Hart was one of six senior Crows rested from Friday night's two practice matches against combined Norwood-North Adelaide sides at Norwood Oval.
The other five were Tyson Edwards (hamstring), Matthew Clarke (quad), Matthew Bode (ankle), James Begley (hamstring) and Scott Thompson (shin).
Hart and Thompson will not be considered for the Wizard Home Loans Cup first-round match against Port Adelaide under lights at AAMI Stadium on Sunday week.
The Crows won Friday night's early match by six points - 6.5 (41) to 5.5 (35). It became virtually a Norwood-North youth trial in the second half after the already-undermanned Crows replaced seven of their players with youngsters from the SANFL teams.
Chris Ladhams kicked three of Adelaide's four first-half goals before he was rested at half-time, and he returned to kick another goal in the final quarter.
Half-back Luke Jericho, who played 15 matches last season - his first in the AFL - shone in the early trial, and two 18-year-old draftees, former Geelong Falcons ruckman John Meesen and super fit former West Perth midfielder Nathan Van Berlo, also were conspicuous in the first three quarters before they were rested.
Hart seeks specialist
Sportal
Adelaide has sought further specialist examination of vice-captain Ben Hart's hamstring injury.
Hart has been examined at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.
John Reid, Adelaide's general manager of football operations, said: "We just wanted to determine whether we had missed anything to do with Ben's injury. The bottom line was that we hadn't and we were told to keep heading down the same path."
Hart, 30, still hopes to play in the opening round of the home-and-away season - against West Coast at AAMI Stadium on Sunday, March 27.
The four-time All-Australian and dual club champion has played 276 AFL matches since 1992, but back and hamstring problems restricted him to only six appearances last season.
Reid said the latest problem with Hart's hamstring had occurred three weeks ago and was 'the same leg, different spot'.
Hart was one of six senior Crows rested from Friday night's two practice matches against combined Norwood-North Adelaide sides at Norwood Oval.
The other five were Tyson Edwards (hamstring), Matthew Clarke (quad), Matthew Bode (ankle), James Begley (hamstring) and Scott Thompson (shin).
Hart and Thompson will not be considered for the Wizard Home Loans Cup first-round match against Port Adelaide under lights at AAMI Stadium on Sunday week.
The Crows won Friday night's early match by six points - 6.5 (41) to 5.5 (35). It became virtually a Norwood-North youth trial in the second half after the already-undermanned Crows replaced seven of their players with youngsters from the SANFL teams.
Chris Ladhams kicked three of Adelaide's four first-half goals before he was rested at half-time, and he returned to kick another goal in the final quarter.
Half-back Luke Jericho, who played 15 matches last season - his first in the AFL - shone in the early trial, and two 18-year-old draftees, former Geelong Falcons ruckman John Meesen and super fit former West Perth midfielder Nathan Van Berlo, also were conspicuous in the first three quarters before they were rested.