Things did not sound very good regarding Walsh tonight on Talking Footy. Just gut wrenching to think we lose another key player for a long period of 2024.

It is Marchbank we’re talking about. It’s probably a head cold, ie potentially terminal


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what was said? i read something about more surgery? i hope we havent destroyed him already

Paraphrasing, but his progress in the next few weeks will be important as to whether or not he goes in for surgery.
Apparently he is not running well.

Imagine if we've lost 3 players for the season by April...

the exact wording was reporter Mitch Cleary said" "I was told by someone at Carlton last week "he's running like an old man" and next week is crunch time for him because when he bends for the ball, tackle, kick, that is still a big challenge for Sam Walsh. If he doesn't get through the next week or two, that is when surgery will be discussed around Sam walsh. So we hold our breath around one of the Blues great young players..."

Edit. Addition in yellow of what else was said by Mitch Cleary.

"Someone at Carlton" ... was that Lygon st. Doesn't say someone from the club who knows.

"Running like an old man"...was that a sarcastic comment, or 2nd hand news, or just bullshit?

"If he doesn't get through....." That's just opinion anyone can make on back injuries. Sensational headline at that too. You'd think he was a News Corp journo. May have tapped into someone's phone if that's the case

Have to wait and see till after the bye. In the meantime, I'm hoping for good news. Back problems are not good news. He has been jogging and kicking the ball.

Voss very clear in his presser that surgery was NOT being considered for Walsh

Sam said he's not too far from returning in an interview with BT.

Haven't seen it myself as I was at the game.

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Mitch Cleary hasn’t done himself any favours, but if he hasn’t started to increase his training load, I would say that surgery is imminent.

Now, that could be:
- surgery right away with a view to return later in the year.
- surgery right away ending his season.
- surgery at the end of the season (i.e. maintain enough to take 9-10 weeks of jabs).

Either way, we’re at the global search stage & it all comes out of the soft cap - or Sam’s sky rocket.

“He’s progressing really where we need him to. I know there’s been a bit of commentary in the last 24 hours, but he’s hitting all the markers he needs to, progressing well,” Lloyd told SEN’s Sportsday.

“We’ve said all the way through that we’d wait until the bye (Round 2). Because of the nature of the injury, we just don’t want to give that running commentary and have to make adjustments publicly every week.

“He’s tracking well. We’re happy with how he’s progressing and hitting all the markers he needs to.

“We’ll regroup over the bye and start setting some timelines for him, but for the Carlton supporters out there, we’re really comfortable with where it sits.”

“I had a training session with the boys in rehab (on Thursday), so felt half-productive about my day today, which was nice,” Walsh told 7AFL after the game.

“Hopefully (I’m back) within the next couple of weeks. It’s tracking well. These things you’ve got to build up.

“The boys are holding it down pretty nicely at the moment, which is good.”

All possibilities, but you can breathe easily given he trained with the rehab group yesterday. Sam Walsh was interviewed by Ch 7 and told them he's hoping to play in 2 weeks. Furthermore, Vossy said no surgery required.

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Carltonians can relax.

You must have waterproof pockets bondi.

what a relief - re walsh.

he's such a gun. and he really puts us into final 4 and even Flag contention.