Confirmed- Raph out for season

bergholt · Post: # 966558Post **bergholt** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 11:16am

Moccha wrote:Seems like the staff are being conservative with him. It's been at least 6 weeks.

seven, including the split round, but maybe it was a bad one.

SainterK · Post: # 966561Post **SainterK** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 11:20am

bergholt wrote:
Moccha wrote:Seems like the staff are being conservative with him. It's been at least 6 weeks.
seven, including the split round, but maybe it was a bad one.

I'm not sure, reports seem to indicate the club is choosing to take longer with him by doing more strength and conditioning work to ensure that when he is back this time, there will be less of a chance he has to don the trackies.

Mooksy · Post: # 966598Post **Mooksy** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 12:49pm

A.Hamill - knee - 2 weeks

backit · Post: # 966617Post **backit** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 1:37pm

Just got this out of The Australian, Raph is out for the rest of the year.

"Meanwhile, St Kilda has received yet another setback in its bid to make consecutive grand finals.

Defender Raphael Clarke has been ruled out for the remainder of the season after having hamstring surgery last week.

Clarke, who has not played since breaking down in round 12, had a similar tendon-repair operation as his captain Nick Riewoldt.

In round 11, Clarke had a season-high 26 disposals against Richmond.

Full-back Zac Dawson underwent surgery on Saturday to have a screw inserted in his fractured hand and will miss at least two rounds.

However, general manager of football operations Greg Hutchison said yesterday the Saints expected specialist tagger Clinton Jones to be available against the Power at Etihad Stadium on Sunday.

Jones missed the Saints' 33-point loss to Essendon on Friday night because of an ankle problem.

Their defence has been further weakened by the nine-match suspension to Steven Baker, who becomes available again in the first week of the finals.

In five weeks without Baker, the Saints have won only twice -- against Melbourne and Brisbane.

St Kilda coach Ross Lyon said yesterday he could not explain the Saints' poor performance against the Bombers, other than it may have stemmed from a "mental preparation" issue.

"You could see (bad) signs early," Lyon said.

"I said we were in a lot of trouble about five or six minutes in. I just thought there were some really worrying signs."

SainterK · Post: # 966619Post **SainterK** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 1:39pm

Oh, that isn't good news

hellorocky · Post: # 966632Post **hellorocky** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 2:23pm

I'm hoping the Australian article was written by a non - football reporter and has mixed up Raph and X - otherwise

Badlands · Post: # 966639Post **Badlands** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 2:36pm

This is terrible, terrible news.
Can anyone else confirm beyond The Australian article?
Raph was pretty confident of only being 2wks away from a return at the HoF dinner.

doppler effect · Mon 02 Aug 2010 3:15pm

Looks to be true. Article on Foxsports also says out for season....

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 51,00.html

borderbarry · Mon 02 Aug 2010 3:20pm

Not so sure about the veracity of that article. Did you see the article in either the Herald Sun or The Age, about the new room we are using to acclimatise players? And did you see who was on the bike? One of them was Raph, and I dont think he would be doing that so soon after an operation.

SainterK · Post: # 966651Post **SainterK** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 3:24pm

borderbarry wrote:Not so sure about the veracity of that article. Did you see the article in either the Herald Sun or The Age, about the new room we are using to acclimatise players? And did you see who was on the bike? One of them was Raph, and I dont think he would be doing that so soon after an operation.

That photo also showed Jesse Smith on the bike, wouldn't have thought he was on the bike either...just an old photo I think Barry.

markp · Post: # 966653Post **markp** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 3:27pm

borderbarry wrote:Not so sure about the veracity of that article. Did you see the article in either the Herald Sun or The Age, about the new room we are using to acclimatise players? And did you see who was on the bike? One of them was Raph, and I dont think he would be doing that so soon after an operation.

In spite of the misleading description, that was a stock photo from the training rooms, not the new altitude one.

This is bad news... 'form' can turn in a week, but injured players this time of year can be terminal.

terry smith rules · Mon 02 Aug 2010 3:33pm

just confirmed on SEN

terrible terrible news

thoughts are with both Clarkes

bigcarl · Post: # 966664Post **bigcarl** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 3:49pm

crisis creates opportunity.

saintsRrising · Mon 02 Aug 2010 4:18pm

Oh bugga...

No Raph.. No Baker

That is two of Lyon's preferred back 6 not available.

Badlands · Post: # 966679Post **Badlands** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 4:24pm

Gutted by this.
While i didn't expect Raph to be the panacea to all our ills, I was really looking forward to his return.

Solar · Post: # 966682Post **Solar** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 4:29pm

really really disapointing, feel for the guy

Grrrrr · Post: # 966706Post **Grrrrr** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 5:12pm

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/n ... 5900118279

A small paragraph in this HS article confirming Raph's season ending injury...

dcstkfc · Post: # 966708Post **dcstkfc** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 5:14pm

That is plain awful news. Club should never have played him against Freo- he was clearly injured during the Richmond game.

Just when he was really turning the corner as well.

Those Clarke brothers are cursed!

saintkid · Post: # 966711Post **saintkid** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 5:22pm

dcstkfc wrote:That is plain awful news. Club should never have played him against Freo- he was clearly injured during the Richmond game.

Just when he was really turning the corner as well.

Those Clarke brothers are cursed!

It is real disappointing for him but it happens far too much with the Clarkes. All we can look forward to is 2011 but I honestly believe he will be an ongoing injury prone player like Xavier. The Clarkes have been, in hindsight, a waste of two first round draft picks.

MC Gusto · Post: # 966725Post **MC Gusto** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 5:33pm

absolutely devastated for the bloke, for the club and for me.

what a shocker

saintbrat · Post: # 966727Post **saintbrat** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 5:37pm

http://www.saints.com.au/season2010/new ... fault.aspx

[quote]He was rehabbing quite strongly but he got to a certain point in the rehab and he hit a snag. They re-scanned and went to the surgeon and they went in for exploratory and it turns out heâ€™s had a significant tendon tear not dissimilar to Nick Riewoldtâ€™s,â€

meher baba · Post: # 966730Post **meher baba** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 5:40pm

That's just shocking news for all concerned.

I know in one sense he is really only a fringe player (he's been dropped twice in 2 years), but we all seem to understand that he's rather important to our chances of a flag.

Good luck Raph.

saintkid · Post: # 966733Post **saintkid** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 5:43pm

Quote:
He was rehabbing quite strongly but he got to a certain point in the rehab and he hit a snag. They re-scanned and went to the surgeon and they went in for exploratory and it turns out heâ€™s had a significant tendon tear not dissimilar to Nick Riewoldtâ€™s,â€

Milan Faletic · Mon 02 Aug 2010 5:52pm

Sad news for the Clarke boys with both going out this week.

Tough break for both.

Thinline · Post: # 966758Post **Thinline** » Mon 02 Aug 2010 6:09pm

The Clarke leg genes seriously suck...