Dempster Ruptures ACL :( :(

Unforgiven · Mon 01 Sep 2008 12:29am

Out for 09: Dempster
In for 09: Attard

Did both do thier ACL's in the respective round 22's? Either way both seem to be pretty good defensive players.

Teflon · Post: # 632466Post **Teflon** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 12:30am

Dempster had that added abiity to play tall.

Gonna be a BIG loss.

mick13 · Post: # 632471Post **mick13** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 12:34am

Fk, way to ruin my moment, first chance I had to get on the net tonight and this is the first topic I see.

Man, he's been better than Schneider for most of the season, massive loss.

Hopefully we can cover for him...

I guess that means hes gone for 09 as well.

Munga · Post: # 632491Post **Munga** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 12:45am

That's crap news. How much of next year would one normally miss?

lefty · Post: # 632518Post **lefty** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 1:06am

Hrm, it will depend how bad he has torn it.

I torn my acl this year (very gay, moderate tear) playing footy, but the doctors basically told me it may or may not hold up, it seems to feel ok, but they'd prefer I do phyio first and go flat out/do whatever I want, rather than operate. If it snaps, well surgery it is, or it may hold up fine and I'll have no problems. Been like 3 months now, still have pain bending it all the way or straightening it all the way, but I guess its coming along, ever so slightly.

I feel sorry for him, I know the darn feeling, but I do wish I was an AFL player, you get looked after, by good doctors, unlike the average joe blow.

Post: # 632521Post **n1ck** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 1:08am

I wonder what the chances are to do the Nick Malceski surgery, and use the whole offseason to build back the strength.

Malceski's seems to be holding up quite well and hes playing some good footy.

Brooksy_Babe_24 · Mon 01 Sep 2008 1:48am

The first guy to come in for dempster would have to be Matty Ferguson what more does the guy have to do to get noticed i mean he is the back bone of that casey team.
he is a similar player to dempster as well

Otiman · Post: # 632562Post **Otiman** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 1:59am

Brooksy_Babe_24 wrote:The first guy to come in for dempster would have to be Matty Ferguson what more does the guy have to do to get noticed i mean he is the back bone of that casey team.
he is a similar player to dempster as well

You have a habit of supporting the sinking ships, but perhaps Ferguson wouldn't be such a bad option.

I think it will come down to direct matchups with their Geelong counterparts.

StPeter · Post: # 632571Post **StPeter** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 2:27am

Its rotten luck...he was playing well.

I hope the give strong consideration to Leigh Fisher. He is not a mid fielder where he was being played when dropped but i feel he is a safer half-back than Gwilt or Raph Clarke who have both been more successful further up the ground.

savatage · Post: # 632572Post **savatage** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 2:36am

I'm shattered. Has become one of my favourites with his willingness to run & his quick hands & long kicking into the forward 50. His loss will be bigger than most realise.

All the best Sean, may you have a good recovery.

ausfatcat · Post: # 632578Post **ausfatcat** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 6:55am

vacuous space wrote:Any chance he might have the procedure Nick Malceski did? If he has the standard procedure he probably misses most, if not all, of 2009.

It's actually a risky procedureand is banned in France, you can recover in three months but if it doesn't take and the knee rejects the synthetic fibre it can take longer than 12 months.

spert · Post: # 632611Post **spert** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 9:55am

Need to replace the poor bugger with another strong body in the backline, not bring in more medium size midfielders. Maybe LFisher is our best bet as he is a resonable stopper and has a tough body.

LTN16 · Post: # 632668Post **LTN16** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 10:55am

I feel sorry for the bloke.

He has been playing so well and I hope he can come back from this as well as Hayes and Goddard from their knee reconstructions.

Do you think that Attard will be still on the list to come in and play this role for us next year ??

Saints94 · Post: # 632681Post **Saints94** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 11:10am

Poor Guy looks like blake will now have to stand up

Otiman · Post: # 632685Post **Otiman** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 11:17am

LTN16 wrote:Do you think that Attard will be still on the list to come in and play this role for us next year ??

If the medico's say he'll make a full recovery, Dempster's injury has just about guaranteed him a certain elevation.

saintly · Post: # 632741Post **saintly** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 11:54am

Otiman wrote:
LTN16 wrote:Do you think that Attard will be still on the list to come in and play this role for us next year ??
If the medico's say he'll make a full recovery, Dempster's injury has just about guaranteed him a certain elevation.

yep would appear so. Attard will suryly be elevated and get a contract for 1 year. If dempster was on a 1 year contract his will be renewed for 1 maybe 2?

matrix · Post: # 632800Post **matrix** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 12:36pm

he did a few things last week that s*** me...but peeps are right in saying he has deserved his spot, and usually his opp player gets F*** all of the cherry.

i feel for him, working hard all yeah and trying hard, to go down like that, i was actually watching that bit of play with binoculars, and i knew it as soon as he went down....knew he was gone.

saintbrat · Post: # 633175Post **saintbrat** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 5:39pm

confirmation he is out for the next 12 months

late monday afternoon

saintm · Post: # 633376Post **saintm** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 8:05pm

saintbrat wrote:confirmation he is out for the next 12 months

late monday afternoon

Channel 10 news said he would have the necessary operation later this week.

Best of Luck.

St DAC · Post: # 633381Post **St DAC** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 8:18pm

Very bad news. I (and no doubt all of us) wish him all the best in his recovery.

Cairnsman · Post: # 633451Post **Cairnsman** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 9:08pm

extremely disapointing for the fella. Think about how he is feeling tonight. I bet a lot of what he is feeling is about the disapointment of playing 21.1 games and not being part of September. He was so close.

The guy is a massive part of our team albeit I believe we can cover him. I thought our club was going to get through the season without a serious knee injury and what makes it worse is he will miss 2009.

mick13 · Post: # 633454Post **mick13** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 9:10pm

Lenny in 06, BJ in 07, SD in 08.

saintbrat · Post: # 633474Post **saintbrat** » Mon 01 Sep 2008 9:34pm

The Winners on fox had us down as ' no injuries'
but Llloddy with ahammy

did they forget sean was with us - or because he went at the very start of the game it slipped their mind.

supersaints · Tue 02 Sep 2008 8:14am

Dempster will be a loss, it will upset the backline ballance somewhat, they have been really working well together the last half of the season.
PS: Where are all the tossers all called him dumpster for most of the year and said all he did was run alongside apponents and wave his arms?????

saintsrus · Post: # 633721Post **saintsrus** » Tue 02 Sep 2008 8:15am

saintbrat wrote:The Winners on fox had us down as ' no injuries'
but Llloddy with ahammy

did they forget sean was with us - or because he went at the very start of the game it slipped their mind.

Even on Sen last night the injury update was no significant injuries from the weekend