Suckling injury ends season

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 10 Maret 2013 | 23.03

Matthew Suckling injured his knee in this contest during today's NAB Cup match against Richmond. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images

Matthew Suckling injured his knee in this contest during today's NAB Cup match against Richmond. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images

HAWTHORN defender Matt Suckling is devastated after scans yesterday confirmed he has ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.

While he is likely to miss the season, Sydney yesterday had not ruled out a synthetic graft to get premiership defender Alex Johnson back sooner after he, too, suffered a serious knee injury.

Suckling, a crucial player in the Hawks' premiership hopes, will consult an orthopaedic surgeon in the next couple of days and is expected to undergo a traditional knee reconstruction which is likely to keep him out until next season.

Scans also revealed that the 24-year-old had not suffered other significant injuries to his knee which buckled when he tried to avoid a tackle from Richmond's Troy Chaplin in the third-quarter of Saturday's game against Richmond at Aurora Stadium.


Suckling, who was only one of three Hawks to play all 25 games last year, was a crucial player coming out of defence with his piercing left-foot kicks which rated in the elite bracket for play-making.

With another of the club's left-footers, Clinton Young, moving to Collingwood, Suckling had the chance to push further up the ground into the mid-field.

Hawthorn football manager Mark Evans said yesterday the incident looked so simple, but unfortunately the result wasn't.

"He is obviously devastated," Evans said.

"He has worked hard to get where he is as an established player on the back of a couple of years of some very good performances.

"But he knows that he has got nothing left to do but to have the operation and get into his rehab and come back fitter and stronger."

Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson has been a critic of the pre-season games, labelling the competition a TV gimmick and nightmare for coaches. "As disappointing as it is for the player - and it's shattering because it's 12 months out of footy - but you've just got to forge ahead," Clarkson said, after the one-point loss to Richmond.

"There's no other way, both for the club and the player."

Sydney's Johnson will have scans on his knee after sustaining what medical staff believe to be a ruptured ACL. Should the scans confirm the Swans' fears that Johnson needs a reconstruction, he is expected to give serious consideration to LARS surgery.

Premiership hero Nick Malceski has had two LARS surgeries and recovered to play in less than half the time of conventional surgery.

Swans co-captain Jarrad McVeigh, who said teammates heard a "snap" when Johnson went down on Saturday night, said the injury was a shattering blow for both player and club.

"We might see him at the end of the year, I'm not too sure, but it's obviously not a great result," McVeigh said.

He said with the quick, 193cm backman able to play on tall and small opponents, Sydney had no one that could fully replace him. "He'll be sorely missed," McVeigh said.


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