Yes you are right, after the graft has been done the knee is braced for quite a long period and the muscles wither. The rehab is long and I would say six months as a return is a minimum. Medials are not as severe as (I think) they can be fixed via arthoscope.

I still can't walk properly four weeks after having a chronoplasty and a meniscotomy (basically trimming the knee meniscus and filing down cartilage) and my knee is still twice the size it should be.

Hope King gets some good news anyway.

You want to have a word with your surgeon mate, he's clearly a pervert - why is he going in through your arris to fix your knee problem?

Depends on the grade of tear, 4-6 weeks probably about an average for that providing it hasn't completely gone and doesn't need surgery. They initially thought all i'd done was my medial and thats the time scale they gave me, only to come back a couple of weeks later after a scan and say my cruciate had gone as well. Ouch.


Yeah, medials are nowhere near as severe.

I had my cruciate reconstructed in September, your back running around 8-12 weeks after but then it's still a couple more months at least until you can play contact sports. You also need a month or two of prehab especially if your medials gone, good few months in total regardless.

Timana Tahu is looking for a club?

No offence to grix, who is a good utility player, but i feel he is too slow to play in the centres. Evans is more than likely going to be King's successor when he returns to Australia so i would suggest throwing in him now to gain some much needed experience before he becomes a first team regular next season.

Don't use the I word, last time I said we might have insurance on the players in these kind of incidents I had everything calling me daft.

As for people putting Evans before Monaghan at Centre, madness!

Just stick Kingy in Paul Cullen's Oxygen Chamber.....he'll be reet before you know it.

Bad news for King and Bridge but this is a massive opportunity to invest in your youth.

It is, but will Smith just move in Grix? I personally would love to see Rhys Evans come in and surely he is ready to step up after already a first team appearance, and has been recruited into the first team. I live watching kids come into the first team and would love to see Evans feature on Sunday.

Cooper is six to eight weeks
Bridge is three to four weeks
Briers has recovers
King could be out till June.

According to Mr Smith, Matt doesn't even have his scan until Wednesday?
Have you got a crystal ball?

Just a guess, considering its kind of the same injury as JP, who is out till april/may

I was thinking the same, however he does say 'could be out until June' which is true, he [icould [/ialso be out until the end of March, [icould [/ibe the end of the season or maybe [icould [/inever play again!

Would be great if we see Matt playing again in 4 to 6 weeks, however as things stand at the minute I would be happy simply if we see him in a Wire jersey again.

Is it the same injuiry that McGuire sustained?

no one knows what the injury is until he has the scan on it.

Bang on Morleys. Lets stop the speculation and wait for the scan, instead of writing King's Wire career obituary

FWIR it is.

DM + JP both did their cruciates. However, if JP is expected back end of April/May, and he did his injury mid-August, that's around 8 months which sounds about right. So that would rule King out for the entire season.

Correct and DM did his last September and is apparently not due back till another three months. Which also suggests around 8 months.

God, I hope it's not his cruciate.

Anything but cruciate would be a win. Its 6 months post-op, thats a given really. The soonest you will be back. So 2 months before his op makes sense as usually if your cruciates gone, your medials gone with it, 6-8 weeks will mean thats mainly healed and back up to full strength.

FFS stop this idle sacare mongering, and WAIT FOR THE SCAN. We all know if it's cruciate, he's probably gone for the season, but that's the point WE DONT FLIPPIN' KNOW.

It keeps them happy.

I`m sorry but i disagree with what your saying.

Why do we need to wait for the scan results when we have one of the best networks of insider knowledge in SL on these boards, i wouldn`t mind betting that a taxi driver somewhere in Warrington will already know the result of Matt King`s scan on Wednsday, what about the friends of cleaners that have posted in the past ? They have usually been spot on, Tony`s spuds as well is another insider sauce thats usually been fairly accurate.

So why do we need to wait for an official announcement on how long Matt King will be out for when someone out there within the insider info network will already know.

74 will let us know the scan results. before its officially been released by the club

Will I?



When do I ever give premature news?