Any news on Micky O?

[thebookie]

Any news on Michael O'Loughlin playing this week?

[brana]

He should play. And boy will they need him.

[injuryupdate]

Interesting one. He has had quadriceps insertion tendinopathy in his left knee for at least the past 3-4 years. It stops him from training fully and obviously has kept him below match fitness.

I can understand Paul Roos not wanting to start too many players with limited preparations in round 1, which was the rationale for leaving M O'L out, but you would have thought he should be first picked after Barry Hall.

Certainly they need some spark in the forward line to draw the attention away from Barry, as the forward line is very one dimensional without Micky.

Unless there is a second injury that we aren't hearing about, they would have to throw him back in, at the very least off the bench, and let him get fitness back on the park.

[thebookie]

Still no sign :(

[brana]

Still no sign :(
Something smells rotten here.
How come there is no word in the press.
He is at lease the equivelant of a Rocca or Tarrant.
Imagine the amount of pages in the paper an injury at C'wood would take up.
Where are you MICKEY!!!!!!!

[injuryupdate]

Sydney AFL journos are a bit pedestrian. Micky O having a long-term injury is never going to be the back page story for the Telegraph or the Herald-Sun.

Would be interesting to see Paul Roos get a question at the press conference though - does he have another injury? If it is his long-term tendinopathy and they really can't get him on the park then things look pretty dire.

[brana]

Sydney AFL journos are a bit pedestrian. Micky O having a long-term injury is never going to be the back page story for the Telegraph or the Herald-Sun.

Would be interesting to see Paul Roos get a question at the press conference though - does he have another injury? If it is his long-term tendinopathy and they really can't get him on the park then things look pretty dire.

Cmon Mr Injury update. Enough of the padding. We want answers.
Where are you MICKEY?

[hhh]

I think you've uncovered the great injuryupdate cover up Brana. Mr Injury Update gets all the official player injuries through the injury surveillance but due to the $500,000 contract he is bound to secrecy. Mr Injuryupdate is probably the only person in the country who can de-code the fake injuries eg: Essendon flu = grade 2 hammy, Collingwood flu = osteitis pubis etc. There is no way patella tendinopathy cannot be treated over the course of 3-4 years, let alone over the pre-season to be fit for round 1 (and lets face it, how fit do you have to be to play forward pocket at the SCG when you are the David Campese of the AFL??). My inside word is Micky O has chronic low back issues which is likely to be setting off the 12th recurrence of his hamstring problems, which coincidently he has also carried for 3-4 years including a massive lay off last season. Chronic low back and hamstring problems is definitely an injury that is very difficult to treat and given the poor press Sydney had last year with hamstring injuries, a cover up is on the cards.

[Doug Stewart]

I'm sure such recent criticism of Sydney AFL journalists is in no way directed at the pin up boy of the Daily Telegraph and the the man who paved the way for Dr. Peter "the apprentice" Larkins? If I wasn't so busy reading Dorland's medical dictionary and plagarising the latest copy of Sport Health to write my next ground breaking article I can guarantee I would be the first on the Micky O case. And if you can organize a pass for the next Paul Roos press conference I can guarantee I will be front and centre to ask the question, well perhaps after "...and Barry Hall, bloody lucky to get that free kick eh?"



Sydney AFL journos are a bit pedestrian. Micky O having a long-term injury is never going to be the back page story for the Telegraph or the Herald-Sun.

Would be interesting to see Paul Roos get a question at the press conference though - does he have another injury? If it is his long-term tendinopathy and they really can't get him on the park then things look pretty dire.

[Jim Rancoon]

I'm sure the Eddie McGuire of sports medicine knows more than he is letting on. Hey, don't you work with the Swans doc??

I think you've uncovered the great injuryupdate cover up Brana. Mr Injury Update gets all the official player injuries through the injury surveillance but due to the $500,000 contract he is bound to secrecy. Mr Injuryupdate is probably the only person in the country who can de-code the fake injuries eg: Essendon flu = grade 2 hammy, Collingwood flu = osteitis pubis etc. There is no way patella tendinopathy cannot be treated over the course of 3-4 years, let alone over the pre-season to be fit for round 1 (and lets face it, how fit do you have to be to play forward pocket at the SCG when you are the David Campese of the AFL??). My inside word is Micky O has chronic low back issues which is likely to be setting off the 12th recurrence of his hamstring problems, which coincidently he has also carried for 3-4 years including a massive lay off last season. Chronic low back and hamstring problems is definitely an injury that is very difficult to treat and given the poor press Sydney had last year with hamstring injuries, a cover up is on the cards.

[sydunisportsmed]

The Tele today reckons Micky O'L is now fit to play this weekend, which the club wouldn't release unless they were pretty sure.

Wouldn't be surprised if the conspriracy theory of an extra injury is correct, but it is a bit laughable if he has another hamstring injury and they are covering it up because they are too precious. The only real threat to a medical team is if the coach and the admin start to dislike their work, and the coach is always going to know 'the real injury'.

I completely understand if he has a rib cartilage or something similar then the club has every right to try to cover it up, because it is an injury that can be directly targetted by the opposition.

With a hamstring, probably the only people taking pot-shots at it are going to be the journos.

Let's face it though, if it was 'easy' to stop a 30-something AFL player with a bad back from tearing his hamstrings, then it wouldn't be the no. 1 injury in the game.

[thebookie]

Speaking of mysteries...where's Andrew Schauble???