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Lynch !!

tigertim said:
“Richmond star Tom Lynch won’t start pre-season at full tilt as he continues his recovery from a foot injury that derailed his 2023 campaign.

Lynch, 30, underwent surgery in April and despite hopes he would play again this year, didn’t feature again as he managed the delicate injury.

He faces another scan and a meeting with his surgeon before he can return to running in coming weeks, but he is adamant it won’t curtail his plans to play in round 1 next year.

“I won’t be with the main group for pre-season day one, but I’ll build throughout pre-Christmas. Then post-Christmas I’d imagine I’ll be in the main group,” Lynch said at TAB’s Spring Fling event on Tuesday.

“It’s a very long way off, but all things going well I’ll be no worries for round 1.”

The dual premiership Tiger said once the decision that he wouldn’t play again this season was made, he had surgery to remove the plate that had been inserted and was on Tuesday finally out of his moon boot.

“With feet, they can just take a long time to heal. It just didn’t recover, and then we decided when I wasn’t going to get back this year, we decided to take the plate out,” he said.

“So that’s why I’ve been in the moon boot since. The plate’s come out and we had to look after it, so it has taken a lot longer than we thought but it’s all on track now.”

Lynch said a previous knee injury had sidelined him for a similar time frame, but “this one was more challenging” given the incremental gains.

“Because I was still in the boot and I was improving but I wasn’t ticking off many goals,” he said.

“It’s one of those things – you’ve got to be grateful that you’re going to work every day and getting better. But we want to play and we want to help the team and it’s frustrating not being able to do that.”

Lynch met with new coach Adem Yze for the first time just days ago after confirmation he would take the reins last month.

“He seems like a great person and a really great coach, so I’m looking forward to him being our mentor,” he said.

Lynch backed the Tigers’ forward stocks in the likes of Samson Ryan and Ivan Soldo to provide scoreboard support in the absence of retired goalkicker Jack Riewoldt as the trade period looms large.

“If potentially we can bring someone in, that’d be great but I think there’s plenty there,” he said.

Lynch along with five fellow Tigers are part-owners in Soulcombe, a Chris Waller-trained stayer that is second-favourite for the Melbourne Cup.

With his wedding also scheduled within weeks, Lynch could well give Collingwood coach Craig McRae a run for his money for the biggest few weeks of his life.

“Hopefully it has a nice couple of runs coming up – the Turnbull (Stakes) on the weekend, and then I think we’ll go to the Caulfield Cup and then the Melbourne Cup,” the premiership Tiger said.

As for who needs a close watch should Soulcombe salute in Australia’s greatest horse race, Lynch didn’t hesitate.

“Liam Baker, absolutely,” he laughed.

“He’s very excitable.”


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I’m still a little concerned.

I will wait.

That’s what I do!


Waiting
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waiting said:
Concerning that at the B&F the moonboot was on. 😫

Has he had the surgery to correct his issues or is it something new they found.

I really have no idea!

If we are to move up the ladder and challenge for the 8, Lynch is our numero uno player we can’t afford not to be playing.
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Agree 100%. But Collingwood playing a tagger at FF and still winning the GF was food for thought.

When your overall system, team and connection is so strong, you appear to be less reliant on guys like Lynch.
I think back to 2017 when we played Hawks at the G, Riewoldt was out, and Caddy was our tallest forward. And we won easy, others just stepped in..

I know it was a different game and different times - but Collingwood are the current example of how a group of players maximising their output and gelling together can get the job done in a GF - with a tagger at FF..!
this is what we need to get back to.

But yeah we need Lynch bad I know
 
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He wasn’t in the moon boot at the TAB event on Monday.
he had his RM Williams on.
my 1st thought was they wouldnt be supportive for what he’s gone through.
interesting hes slipped the old moon boot back for the medal night.
maybe he thought he was gonna get on
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Tom had a pretty good season when he first joined after a restricted pre-season so hopefully lightening strikes twice and he has a good 2024 season following a restricted pre-season. We sure miss him up front
 
tigers80 said:
He wasn’t in the moon boot at the TAB event on Monday.
he had his RM Williams on.
my 1st thought was they wouldnt be supportive for what he’s gone through.
interesting hes slipped the old moon boot back for the medal night.
maybe he thought he was gonna get on
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Might be a risk based thing. Eg Where is he likely to have someone step on his foot or maybe where is he likely to spend more time applying weight to it.
 
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Tommy out of the moon boot again…or is just for the photo?

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Little Ziggyadee said:
Best news. Such a vital part to our side.
Can't wait for him to kick 8 on Ratonmygear
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Maybe 4 in the first qtr when they move Zerk-Thatcher on to him when he kicks another 4 only for them to realise they sold the farm for two B or C grade KPD that are exposed against the best forwards
 
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