Chapter 1: What are the latest AFL headlines following Round 6?
Let's have a little delve into what's happening across the footy landscape. Tom. Gerard, news literally just in. Hot off the press. Is that the scene? Hot off the press. Hawthorne won't appeal James Sisley and Dylan Moore's suspension, so they'll miss against the Gold Coast for those gut punches on the same player from Port Adelaide within about 15 minutes of each other.
So Greg Swan's come down hard on this.
Chapter 2: Why won't Hawthorne appeal Sisley and Moore's suspensions?
It's a pretty clear cut that if you deliver a gut punch off the ball or even on the ball, really, it's a week because it's medium impact. But their opponent, Gold Coast, they're appealing John Noble's one-game suspension for a high bump on Tom Edwards. So that will play out this week. Just to add to the tribunal...
I guess narrative this week around Zach Butters and I'm sure Lance Collard will be part of it as well. So busy week at the tribunal. So the Butters appeal is tonight? That's tonight. Yeah. We don't know when Lance Collard is yet, but Butters appeal is tonight.
Yeah. What else are we keeping tabs on?
So I always tread very carefully, Gerard, with medical issues, medically contentious issues in particular. Yeah. And this one was certainly contentious this time last year when Sam Darcy elected not to have surgery on his knee after injuring it at Marvel Stadium. He didn't rupture his ACL. There was bone bruising. There was a hyperextension.
And I've spoken to a couple of medical professionals this morning, and the best way to describe what else was wrong with the knee was there was like a divot in the knee. It was like there was a dimple that you get when you injure your knee badly. And that's quite normal for this sort of thing. So...
Had David Young operated, he's the Western Bulldogs go-to guy normally, had David Young operated as he was prepared to do, they would have repaired that divot at the time. That would have been part of the operation on his knee. But for a variety of complex reasons, I don't need to go into all of them today. Darcy decided not to have surgery.
That was Julian Feller's advice, who's also a guru in this space. And the divot healed over. Now, I'm not saying either was right or wrong. That's not my area. But what I am saying is just have a listen to Dr. Peter Larkins, this time last year, talk about Sam Darcy's knee and what was wrong with it and what are the potential ramifications if you don't treat it properly at the time.
Imagine the bone getting bumped and dented in like that. So to do that, you actually pretty heavily damage the cartilage, the protective cushioning on the bone to do that. So going forward, the bone recovers. You break your arm, it's better in six weeks. The bone heals up. But when you're talking about cartilage inside an ankle or a knee or a hip, the cartilage can then peel off.
And that's what arthritis is. It's when you lose bone protection. So, there is a potential, depending on when they look at it, they'll see what the cartilage bruising or cartilage damage is. The bone will heal itself, but the ligaments are the things that can stay loose in the future. And so, that's probably the more of the consequences will we have further problems with the ligaments.
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Chapter 3: What happened with Sam Darcy's knee injury and surgery decision?
He gets back in six weeks and he plays on. But there was an element of risk carried with not going under the knife last year. And I think that's a pretty objectively accurate thing to say based on the people I was talking to this morning. All right, now facing the full knee reconstruction. Full knee reconstruction. I think he's meeting with a specialist later today, and we wish him well. Okay.
Yeah. What else have you got? Lots of injuries over the weekend. Simo just mentioned a couple. So Noah Answorth, another concussion for him, which is a concern. So Cozzy Pickett. This is a unique situation. Cozzy Pickett bumped Answorth in the side and Answorth then ricocheted into Brodie Mycheck.
And I don't think Cozzy Pickett's going to have any concerns here from the MRO perspective because in order to have any concerns, the MRO would have to prove that Pickett knew that Mycheck was there and that it would injure Brodie. injure the player, injure Answorth. So I don't expect MRO concerns. But the injuries at the Brisbane Lions are a bit of concern. Jared Berry with his calf.
We know they're missing Eric Hipwood. They're missing Dan Annabelle as well. Bruce Reveal was a little bit sore as well yesterday. Lockie Neal, as Simo just mentioned, had his foot stamped on. So the Lions, they're 3-3. They're going fine. But they do have a few injury concerns. And as you mentioned, none of these guys are getting back anytime soon.
It's the lack of continuity that they're going through. That's right. That's right. The Elijah Hollands discussion continues. So we wait to know what the outcome will be of this investigation and the review. But I trust Graeme Wright when he says he's going to leave no stone unturned to find out exactly what went on. Just important to note that...
while there is alignment that this was a mental health episode between the AFL and the PA and Carlton Football Club, that doesn't discount other elements being at play. And as far as I know, the AFL hasn't discounted those elements. And we might never know those elements unless, of course, WADA ā drug tested him on the day, and we don't know if they did.
And if we did know, then it would be like Joel Smith or any other AFL player. So in lieu of all that, I'm strong in my view that the AFL, unless they find some sort of gross misconduct, which they haven't as yet, or gross negligence, won't come down as hard on Carlton as they have done on other clubs in the past. I think there'll be some sort of sanction of some sort,
but I'm not sure it's going to be this big $100,000 thing or loss of draft picks or anything like that. I think the more likely scenario is it would be a lesser sanction into research how the industry can deal with a mental health episode like this going forward collectively, a bit like the Petrarca aftermath. If we see this again, how can we do it better?
I think that's the far more likely scenario. And I think that would suit the entire industry really well, even if it is a rare thing. David King said this morning, this is a one to 20 year event. I would argue that this sort of thing happens more than we know. An anxiety attack, a panic attack pre-game that the club massages and the player ends up playing.
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Chapter 4: How do medical professionals view Sam Darcy's knee injury aftermath?
Edwards misses the rest of the game. He ends up passing the HIA. So are we comfortable? This is just an open question. Are we comfortable with a doctor essentially overruling the club doctor to make sure a player comes off? If this is Nick Dacos in a prelim or Bontempele in a prelim, that's a huge call to make. And those are the processes that the AFL is looking at today.
And they were looking at it yesterday as well. It's the chain of events that Laura Kane's team will be assessing as this week goes on to make sure that everything that took place over the weekend was fair and just. Yes, because it worked well in the Answorth case. It did. It worked well. Yeah, it did. Kingy asked me this morning, has Essendon frustrated or angry at this?
And not that I'm aware, I just think it's something that needs to be clarified 100% to make sure that we all know this is the process, this is what takes place. All right.
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