And I remember his first training session back from the ACL, he trained the house down.

I still remember how fast he seemed in comparison with the other players we had on the list back then. It was Blue skies when he returned.

I just hope it's not too serious it condemns him to returning to footy in 2011.

Just 2 more games....not going to happen at the business end of the season if we're playing for a top 8 or top 4 position.

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I like Fisher and feel bloody terrible for him. Finally gets a chance to work in a forward line minus the magnetic Fev and immediately gets injured...
I hope the injury is clean, the operation straightforward and the recovery swift.

+1

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With two nominated rookie spots available, and this injury.. we can promote three rookies this year. might not be so bad for our forward line... casboult and donaldson both need a lot of time to develop... but both could get some nice game time playing third tall, which is where fish would have played....


HF: Murphy O'hAilpin Yarran
FF: Betts Henderson Waite/Kreuz/Hampson/Warnock/Casboult/Donadlson

^^ actually doesnt look that bad.^^

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"All in all is all we are..."

That's becaise you've got 8 players in the FF line

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Such a massive shame, both for Fish and the team. With Fev gone and a solid pre-season behind him this was set to be Fish's real chance to be an important player for us. If the worst is confirmed, I can't see how he'll come out of it.

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#GUILTY

They say at best that he's out for 12 weeks.

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fingers crossed thats the case - that would be around midseason with rehab/bullants time included

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

Yep......people forget he's only 25....still a young guy with lots of footy to catch up on.....good luck Fish......

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Partly torn ACL:

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/f ... -ori3.html

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I'm keeping everything crossed for Fish.
We know he's a good healer but this seems to be a close call right now.

Had the LARS (malceski) op today

12 weeks

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

Interesting. I'll be very interested to see how this goes on a bloke who isn't a midfielder.

Good luck Fish. Look forward to seeing you back in the seniors in July.

Now part of the footy vernacular......"he had a Malceski"..........

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http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/newsar ... fault.aspx



Good luck Fish

Good luck Fish

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See Fish......all of TC are being positive about your prospects of a great recovery......we're a very positive lot.......

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I thought Fisher was rotting at the head. Now it is his knee.

All the best Fish

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Ratts said tonight, that Fish had his OP today. He had the Malceski Op and if all goes well, should be running around in 12 weeks.

Fingers crossed !!

Actually - if all goes well he should really be jogging in 6 weeks.

I think had it been a full tear the recovery would be longer - such as the 3-4 months Malceski had off. But because there is almost 50% of the fibres still attached in his existing ACL he could be back in full training 6-8 weeks after the op...we'll know more after the first week or two as if the knee can cope with some load bearing exercises then the Doc's will put a timeline on his return...to outsiders, this will be known as 'indefinite'...but it should be remembered that Malceski's was a full rupture...Brad's is a partial tear.

More surgeons are doing the op these days, so it doesn't have the stigma attached to it that it did a couple of years ago. The only real possible side effect of the LARS operation is that the patient wakes up speaking Swedish.