Cody Weightman

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do most of that at the end of the year I think when I'm overseas or whatever but while you're in it you sort of I don't know sometimes I find it hard to reflect and um you kind of just try to stay optimistic and um and sort of I guess looking forward so I've been caught in that a little bit but I did have a little bit of reflection after the game and just from where I've come from and where what I was able to do on the night um it did feel a little bit extra special this time and

And, yeah, again, just to be a part of it, like I didn't want the focus to be on me, but obviously the game was our primary thing and we're able to get that done, which is awesome.

But, yeah, it is, I guess, symbolic that it potentially is somewhere in the middle of my career, hopefully, where this whole thing has happened.

At the age of 25 now, hopefully can be halfway through my chapter or my book and that chapter's done and then hopefully there's a few more left

Yeah, there's plenty of those.

I was obviously not in a great way with my knee for a while there and more problem solving for a little while and I suppose it was just the

the prolonged ability to start my rehab, which got really hard because I was sort of going backwards for a long time.

Whereas at least when you're in rehab, I suppose the standard common ACL, you start your rehab a couple of months in and you're progressing for the next 10 sort of months and slowly on a bit of a path to getting back.

Whereas mine sort of, I don't know how many months it was, but it was a long way into the year before I actually even

Got to start doing some exercise and most of the things I did didn't feel great.

And yeah, even just at home, going up the stairs and stuff was a real chore and quite painful.

So I had my doubts, that's for sure.

But like I said before, it's only been the last few days that I've sort of owned those because I didn't really want to verbalize anything too negative and own that narrative that it might not happen or anything.

So yeah, it's sort of only been recently that I've started to realize how far back I was and how far I've

did come from, but, um, I suppose I'm just, yeah, super grateful for my body at the sort of year in or so it decided to, to work with me and let me get a run at it.

Uh, well, I broke my knee at training essentially.

So there was no warning for the marking contest.

But yeah, I guess like from that point of view, I didn't really have, I hadn't prepared for that at all.

I think there was an aspect of my knee that was a little bit different from birth, but at the end of the day, I just hit knee on knee and it sort of broke my knee.