Jarrod Mullen hopes latest setback only minor

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Jarrod Mullen hopes latest setback only minor
BY ROBERT DILLON

KNIGHTS playmaker Jarrod Mullen is anxiously awaiting the results of scans today that will determine how much of his season is left after he recovers from an ankle injury.

Mullen limped off in the fifth minute of Saturday's win against Canberra.

The club fears he might have torn the syndesmosis in his lower left leg, which could sideline him for a large chunk of Newcastle's seven remaining regular-season games.

"It doesn't look good, but who knows," a downcast Mullen said after the game.

"I've got to get scans on Monday, but hopefully nothing too bad shows up.

"They think it's torn ligaments, but we're not sure at this stage . . . if it's a torn syndesmosis, it'll be a few weeks on the sidelines maybe six to eight but hopefully it's not that bad."

Mullen said he heard a crack when he was tackled by Alan Tongue.

"My whole foot went numb when I did it I thought I might have broken it to start off with," he said.

The 22-year-old described the injury as "just one of those freak accidents" but admitted it was another frustrating setback.

This season he has broken a rib and dislocated a shoulder yet still played in 15 of Newcastle's 16 games, often under duress.

"I feel like I've killed a Chinaman, the amount of injuries I've had," he said. "I've had a pretty good run this year and only missed one game. Hopefully, fingers crossed, I can come back after the bye, but who knows?"

Herald

 

[Baron Vo Mandor]

I feel like I've killed a Chinaman
- Classic!!!

 

[bluesbreaker]

Man that's totally not PC in this day and age, expect a blow up about that

 

[keeney]

I saw that this morning and was like seriously? What kind of backwater hicktown is Newcastle anyways?

 

[TooheysNew]

Um, it's a fairly common slang term...

 

[Hanscholo]

The crack is just air releasing from the joint, unless ofcourse its broken and i doubt that. He walked off with it, from what i can tell with this kind of injury, Syndesmosis is extremely painful, i am doubtful he would have walked from the field with a severe case, but we shall see. I reckon 3-4 weeks tops. :roll:

 

[Big Tim]

The crack is just air releasing from the joint, unless ofcourse its broken and i doubt that. He walked off with it, from what i can tell with this kind of injury, Syndesmosis is extremely painful, i am doubtful he would have walked from the field with a severe case, but we shall see. I reckon 3-4 weeks tops. :roll:

13 days ago I rolled my ankle really bad at basketball, its still purple, red and black now. I heard a "crack" or "pop" as well.

I played on it 8 days later, while my basketball comp is not in the same league as the NRL, 3-4 weeks sounds right if he just stretched the tendons.

The problem with ankles is that you can never tell without a scan......

 

[Pika]

Scott played 11 minutes last year on a broken ankle.

Wait for the scans I guess.

 

[Karmawave]

Wait for the scans I guess.

Surely Mullens scans have been well and truly done by now.

The fact we haven't heard anything about it isn't necessarily a good sign really...

 

[TooheysNew]

No. They're getting done tomorrow morning. I'd assume it's too swollen.

There was a media release today stating as much.

 

[Newie is God's Country]

Mullo will be like a glow worm with the amount of Nuke juice he has copped the last 12 months. MRI means Mullo's Re Injured scans.

 

[Serc]

If he's getting an MRI there's no radiation involved...

 

[Jobdog]

Hot off the pressers folks - "he has torn 2 ligaments in his ankle, his anterior and another one. He will be out for 3-4 weeks, but it's better than they thought."

Good old Facebook

 

[Serc]

Good to hear - Mullo back for the last few weeks of the season!

 

[Jono078]

Cool.

Next 4 weeks will be defining for our season then.

We go 3-1 thats really good, 2-2 would also be good, anything less then we'll be fighting for around that 8th spot again.

 

[perverse]

great news, i thought he was a goner.

 

[otori]

Well on the plus side, the sides we're facing without Mullen are the Eels, Roosters but on the downside the Seagles. If we can beat the Raiders without him then surely we can overcome Parra and Roosters. If we lose to Parra twice in one season I might have an little brain snap of my own invovling my chair and the television.

 

[Karmawave]

No. They're getting done tomorrow morning. I'd assume it's too swollen.

There was a media release today stating as much.

Weird that they'd send a media release saying that when he had scans in East Maitland on Monday, and was seeing Doc this morning to see the damage... Hmmm.

Hot off the pressers folks - "he has torn 2 ligaments in his ankle, his anterior and another one. He will be out for 3-4 weeks, but it's better than they thought."

Good old Facebook

Talk about a stalker waiting to happen...

I hate Facebook, really anti that garbage, and now I know why, people like JD trolling ;-)

 

[Baron Vo Mandor]

Cool.

Next 4 weeks will be defining for our season then.

We go 3-1 thats really good, 2-2 would also be good, anything less then we'll be fighting for around that 8th spot again.

I wouldnt go that far I'd say we are fighting for 5th with Mullo out against the Cowboys.

Bronco's and Panthers(Panthers imparticular) won win many more this year and anyone below them is no chance.

 

[Karmawave]

I wouldnt go that far I'd say we are fighting for 5th with Mullo out against the Cowboys.

Bronco's and Panthers(Panthers imparticular) won win many more this year and anyone below them is no chance.

I did that ladder predictor thing on the NRL website last night. Talk about making it difficult, you don't just pick the winners now, you pick the score too so you move the for and against as well :lol:

Anyway, after working my way through that stupid thing, I had our season literally coming down to the last Round against Penrith. Whoever wins that game, makes the 8.

I didn't have the Broncos losing too many more games ( they came 6th on my ladder ), because I think they'll improve out of sight after Origin and get back into the form they were in earlier in the year. And I had the Sea Eagles 7th. And Knights 8th after beating the Panthers at home in the last round.