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June 13, 2007
Rooke to miss Lions clash
Max Rooke accepted his 1 match suspension
Rooke accepts one-game penalty
Geelong's Max Rooke will miss this weekend's match against Brisbane after he accepted a one-game ban for bumping.Rooke was charged for his front-on bump on Adelaide captain Mark Ricciuto in the third quarter of Sunday's match at AAMI Stadium.
His hit left Ricciuto dazed and groggy and forced him from the field.
Ricciuto did not return in the final quarter, with Adelaide trainers seen working on his back.
The Cats host the Lions at Skilled Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Not malice in it from Max, but it was pretty obvious he was going to cop a week because of it. The real issue is, how come players are only getting one week for this when in pre-season Matty Stokes got done for 4. Typical AFL hypocrisy...not that I am complaining!
Now for some wonderful news...
Cats cheer Lonergan's VFL comeback
On August 27 last year, young Geelong defender Tom Lonergan was placed in an induced coma after surgeons removed his right kidney.That day at Skilled Stadium, Lonergan, in only his seventh match, had been involved in a sickening collision with Melbourne's Brad Green, running back with the flight of the ball and into the path of Green as the Cats tried to hold on in a desperate last quarter.
On Sunday, Lonergan makes a return to competitive football, selected in the Cats' VFL side to play Tasmania.
It has been a rough road, with serious complications that almost cost Lonergan his life, but yesterday Geelong coach Mark Thompson was eager to announce what he called "huge news" and a "sensational effort".
"I'm not sure once the game starts whether it'll have much effect (on teammates), but I think in the lead-up … everyone's very proud of what he's done and they're really happy to have him around here," Thompson said.
"They think it is a really gutsy effort to want to play and force himself back to the level of fitness to be able to take the field this week, it's a sensational effort."
Lonergan lost 17 kilograms as he first battled to walk and then slowly resume training. Geelong placed him on the rookie list to allow him to potentially continue his career at the highest level.
According to Geelong's doctor, Chris Bradshaw, the ability of the human body to function on less than one kidney meant the danger to Lonergan's long-term health, even if he was to receive major trauma to his remaining kidney, was real but limited.
"They still reckon that in most cases of renal trauma you can save a good part of the kidney. If he had the same renal trauma to the remaining one you would imagine that they could probably save most of the kidney and he'd be OK. But there is obviously an increased risk for him," Bradshaw said.
"I think the reality is we're blessed that we can probably get by with one-third of one kidney and still sort of be OK and be healthy. Obviously, his renal function and reserves aren't as good as a normal person.
"He was lucky to come through all the stuff. But the body is pretty good in coping. The actual loss of a kidney I think is probably, as an injury, not quite as severe as a cruciate ligament in terms of the recovery from it. But the fact that he had such major surgery and such major complications has made it all the more unpleasant for him."
Late last year, Lonergan told The Age he had thought about retiring but realised "in the end I love footy and I wanted to get back out there and prove that I can play and this is a little step, another step I've got to take".
After watching the Kangaroos' Jason McCartney return for one match after surviving the Bali bombings, Bradshaw said he understood such a drive.
"If you walked away and that was the last thing you'd done in footy you'd always be wondering. Psychologically you sort of feel like you have to give it a crack again," he said.
"Jason McCartney played that one senior game before he called it quits … he made the monumental effort to prove that he could get back and do it. Hopefully Tommy will be different, he hasn't got the external scars that Jason McCartney had. Hopefully he'll just get better and better and better."
We wish Tom all the best in his return to football and hope a lot of fans make the effort to get down there early on Sunday to see him make his return and to show their support.
Posted by Sammy D at June 13, 2007 05:46 PM
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