Interesting article in The Age by Chris Judd on where Dan Hannebery is:
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/...04-p4zjdk.html
This makes sense to me, and I'm inclined to agree that Hanners has come back too soon and needs further rest and/or treatment. I believe there is still good football in him but he needs to adjust the way he goes about it. I hope the medical staff can do more with him because he looks as if he needs it. A properly healed and refreshed Hannebery still has a lot to offer.
He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)
This.
Judd's comments are well-intentioned but the Swans medical staff are closer to the issue and must be better informed about what Hanners needs. Longmire made comments at the start of the season that the club was more interested in doing what was right for Hanners in the long term than rushing him back into the side so I think it's reasonable to deduce they think he's physically OK to play.
Judd more often than not talks a lot of sense when he writes articles like this. It will certainly be a case of managing Hanners across the rest of his career and ensuring we can get the best out of him. Judd should be a good source of wisdom in this space, given the challenges with fitness he faced in the latter part of his career.
"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."
Jordan Dawson will return to the NEAFL this weekend but some bad news for Matt Ling who is out for the season and due to have toe surgery.
— Sydney Swans (@sydneyswans) June 5, 2018
Here's the latest on our injury list thanks to @hcfaustralia.
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Indeed. And maybe those concluding he was a dud on limited evidence were somewhat premature. IIRC, it was a foot injury of some description that curtailed his pre-season so it sounds like they tried to get him playing despite the injury but have now given up and decided to get him ready for next year.
Pink Brown Dawson Foote could be available to play this weekend which would be a big addition to our NEAFL squad, with enough time left in the season to make an impact on senior selection.
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