Jed Adcock
Jed had his hip cleaned up. He’s got some specific strength work and conditioning to do around his hip. He’s overseas right now on a 12-month delayed honeymoon, which has been very well-earned.
With the operation that he had, we’ve decided to leave him home from Arizona. We feel that the best approach with Jed was to keep him under our wing and with our physios here at home so that we can be certain that he’s right to go.
Matt Maguire
The major thing with ‘Goose’ was getting his scar cleaned up from his broken leg from back at the Saints. He had that repaired to give him a bit more range of motion around his ankle and foot. He has already gone straight into running progressions. He will come with us to Arizona so he’s got his rehab-based stuff and also some pre-acclimatisation stuff to do, which involves bike and running. He’s down in Melbourne with a program that he’ll be doing from interstate and he’ll also go over and have a holiday in the US before meeting up with us in Arizona.
James Polkinghorne
Polks had three options for his shoulder and luckily for us, the most conservative approach needed to be taken, which was only a minor operation. He’s already back doing strength work and he should be fairly uninterrupted. He’ll also go to Arizona. All of his running and bike work won’t be affected by his shoulder, so he’ll well and truly be ready to go come day one of pre-season.
Jesse O’Brien
Jesse had his groin done and it was a fairly major operation. He ended up getting caught by Osteitis Pubis and needed surgery for his groin tendons. He’ll be a slower build-up and will be modified during the pre-season but he’ll be right and in full swing for Round 1.
Brent Staker
Stakes is going to Arizona and is pretty well at full running and full agility now. He should complete a full pre-season. The last thing to come is contact work, and that will come after Arizona and after Christmas. We’ll start introducing some more contact with tackling and wrestling, and then some more ballistic contact and agility.
Mitch Golby
He’s out of his boot and he’ll do his running progressions. He had a stress fracture, which was a bit of a strange one in that he was showing no symptoms going in, got the stress reaction, got put in the boot, felt good, came back, and then pulled up sore, so back in the boot! But he’s now back out and reporting no pain so he should have a good pre-season.
Matthew Leuenberger
We were always planning to modify Leuey’s pre-season program, as you do with someone so big who does a lot of jumping. So even prior to his Achilles injury we had planned to take him through a modified season last year and a modified pre-season this year. Unfortunately in Round 3 over in Perth he sustained the injury, and so went through a long rehab process. So off the back of that, he’ll be ready to start pre-season, but tendon injuries are a little slower to heal than muscles, so it will be modified.
Ash McGrath
Ash had a couple of problems over the off-season. He’s had problematic wrists for a few seasons and so he had a reconstruction at the end of the season on his wrist. It was a fairly major operation. He was in a cast for a while and needed to have his wrist and elbow completely immobilised. So he’s just getting back now and going through physio to get his range and strength back. He also had the hamstring tendon injury which was repaired surgically and he’s pretty well over that and back into his running and hitting full speed. He’s already started his pre-season running program, the same as all the other boys.
The Brisbane Lions are scheduled to resume pre-season training on November 5.
