West Coast coach Adam Simpson has defended the choice to ship Luke Shuey again on the sphere final week, declaring he all the time leaves harm calls as much as medical workers.
Shuey is slated to overlook the following 4 to 5 weeks after injuring his ankle and pulling up with a sore hamstring within the 40-point loss to Port Adelaide.
The 32-year-old suffered the ankle harm within the first time period, however returned to the sphere and was solely subbed off within the third quarter when it turned too painful to proceed.
Once Shuey cooled down, he seen soreness in his hamstring – persevering with a worrying pattern of hamstring points for the 242-game veteran.
Simpson mentioned the hamstring tweak could not be blamed on the choice to ship him again on the sphere with an ankle harm.
“He didn’t do his hamstring coming back on the ground. That’s probably misinterpreted,” Simpson instructed reporters on Friday.
“It’s a tendinopathy. It’s not an incident. It’s a consistent thing that makes it a challenge to play with. The ankle was the thing that subbed him out.
“When you do ankles like that, you possibly can play by a little bit of ache.
“It got to the point where he couldn’t sustain it so we didn’t want to keep jabbing it to play.”
Various Eagles gamers have returned to the sphere whereas nursing accidents this season – a standard apply amongst golf equipment however one which comes with dangers.
“That (sending players back on) is just done by the doctors, that’s not my call,” Simpson mentioned.
“There’s no risks taken. It’s just the doctor’s call – whether it’s concussion, ankle, shoulder, hamstring.
“Every recreation they have to make a name.”
West Coast will be aiming to snap a four-game losing run when they take on Carlton at Optus Stadium on Saturday night.
The Blues pulled a selection shock by naming Sam Docherty just two weeks after knee surgery that was initially expected to rule him out for up to six weeks.
“He retains stunning me,” Carlton coach Michael Voss mentioned.
“His restoration powers are fairly spectacular, however early within the week he was making some actually good progress.
“He got back into running, jumped into training, had no affects and was able to complete full training.
“It appears a bit pointless to attend one other week. He’s properly and actually match and able to go.”
The Blues also welcome back Adam Saad (hamstring), while West Coast are boosted by the return of Shannon Hurn.
Voss leapt to the defence of forward Harry McKay, whose wayward goalkicking has become a big talking point.
McKay has kicked nine goals from 23 shots this season, including 1.2 in last week’s loss to St Kilda.
“He did not fairly get the end he was after however gee, he received the alternatives,” Voss mentioned.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
