JLT 2018 - Carlton v Hawthorn (Sat 10th Feb)

Re: JLT 2018 - Carlton v Hawthorn (Sat 10th Feb)

Reply #270 – March 19, 2018, 01:00:47 pm

Quote from: madbluboy – on March 19, 2018, 11:48:58 am

Yeah I'm sure the cancer battle wouldn't have made much difference.

The older players are just going about this time of year and are blowing out the cobwebs AND when the chips were down I thought Roughie had a fairly good effort at trying to lift and impose himself, but he did so like a player who is trying to work his way back into it.

The cancer battle will have caused its own issues, but I doubt it will hurt him signficantly *and its perfectly reasonable to blame it on that if it has*.

Re: JLT 2018 - Carlton v Hawthorn (Sat 10th Feb)

Reply #271 – March 19, 2018, 01:10:59 pm

Quote from: Thryleon – on March 19, 2018, 01:00:47 pm

The older players are just going about this time of year and are blowing out the cobwebs AND when the chips were down I thought Roughie had a fairly good effort at trying to lift and impose himself, but he did so like a player who is trying to work his way back into it.

The cancer battle will have caused its own issues, but I doubt it will hurt him signficantly *and its perfectly reasonable to blame it on that if it has*.

Roughead had immunotherapy and one of the major side effects of that is fatigue. My dad had 3 X 12 week rounds of chemo and handled it well, he tried immunotherapy and it f^&*ed him. The pulled the pin after two doses.

There was an article a few days ago with Roughy saying he had to stop the immunotherapy because he couldn't take anymore and that he played last season without feeling in his toes.