Injury Update

[Aussie_Knight]

Player - Injury - Onset - Estimated Return

Trent Estatheo - knee injury - Last season - Rnd 3

Craig Hall - ankle injury - Last season - Rnd 3

Mark Hughes - shoulder injury - Pre-season - Rnd 3

Robbie O'Davis - calf strain - Rnd 1 - Rnd 6

Andrew Price - hamstring strain - Pre-season - Rnd 2

Trent Salkeld - ankle injury - Pre-season - Rnd 1/Rnd 3

Reegan Tanner - knee injury - Pre-season - Rnd 10

Clint Newton - ankle injury - Last season - Rnd 3-5

 

[Misanthrope]

You've got Newton on their twice, lol.

Looking forward to Newton and Hall getting back on deck. Both were good for us last year (Hall moreso than Newton), and it'll give us some more options on the backline to have him fit. Hughesy would be good to have back for the same reason.

 

[Aussie_Knight]

:-$

It will be good to get most of those players back early on in the season - will provide depth and cover throughout the squad

 

[keeney]

im looking forwadr to tanner hall price adn newton more than any of them, when they return itll put huge pressure on our bench forwards, hopefully forcing everyone to lift the bar

 

[MC DUI]

I thought I read on here at some stage that Estatheo was gone for good from the Knights due to his injuries. If that info was wrong then happy days because I thought he showed a lot of promise when he first started playing first grade.

 

[keeney]

we need another good prop on the bench as well

 

[~knights~]

Nothing about tahu on there.

I guess he will be right next week then :?:

 

[Matt23]

Remember that Tahu has a lot of problems with his calves, especially during night games.

 

[~knights~]

Yeah he had that operation on his calves.

Must still plague him at times .

 

[~bedsy~]

Wasn't his op because his skin couldn't stretch around his calf muscle so they had to cut some of it back? Hopefully the same thing isn't happening again.

 

[Doctor]

Wasn't his op because his skin couldn't stretch around his calf muscle so they had to cut some of it back? Hopefully the same thing isn't happening again.

It's called "compartment syndrome" and it is when the muscles are too big for the skin to contain - it must be a fairly serious problem to play with, but is, by all accounts, not career-threatening if you get it fixed.

Tahu has had it fixed, perhaps it is connected to the problem, or it may be an entirely different injury.
Hopefully we will receive updated injury-lists each week, instead of speculating about players all weekend.