Fox Journalist Cody Kaye Provides Injury Update on Butcher and Copley

[night_shadow]

From his Twitter account

"Another tough one for the Roosters - Trent Robinson has confirmed Nat Butcher suffered a PCL injury against the Dragons last weekend. Dale Copley also played for 78 mins with a broken bone in his foot".

https://twitter.com/Cody_KayeFOX

[Spirit of 66]

According to NRL site:

Butcher is racing the clock to be back in time for the finals after damaging his PCL in last weekend's win over the Dragons. Copley played 78 minutes with a broken foot and is unlikely to play again this year.

[TeddyGoat]

Seriously I know he can't help it but fk me this was the problem with getting Copley, didn't even last 3 weeks. Definitely do feel for the guy, but we all knew it was sketchy getting an injury prone player...

[zac]

hopefully jmoz will be back by the finals.
i googled pcl recovery and the results didn't look promising but maybe he's at the lowest range of the damage you can do. would be huge if he's back for the finals

[King Salvo]

hopefully jmoz will be back by the finals.
i googled pcl recovery and the results didn't look promising but maybe he's at the lowest range of the damage you can do. would be huge if he's back for the finals

Depending on the grade- surgery rarely required

Grade 1: 1-3 weeks
Grade 2: 3-5 weeks
Grade 3: 5-8 weeks

[Random Rooster]

Bloody hell this is getting beyond ridiculous.

Need to get Josh Morris back and hopefully his form returns- his experience is needed more than ever

[Johnny Brass]

Even our replacements for the reserves have gone down, it's almost getting to the comical stage.
I know the mantra is next man up but we will be calling up the drummer boy.
We are cursed at the moment with injuries, I've never seen a run like it anywhere.

[fletch]

Was reported on Fox Sports news the best case scenario for Butcher is 2nd week of the finals.

[King Salvo]

Seriously I know he can't help it but fk me this was the problem with getting Copley, didn't even last 3 weeks. Definitely do feel for the guy, but we all knew it was sketchy getting an injury prone player...

He did it early in the game when he slipped/tripped or something when a try was looming - it only says broken foot so not sure of where the break is but anywhere between 3 to 8 weeks out.

I remember breaking my big toe when being tackled in under 14's early in the season and i was out for 8 weeks - 6 weeks for the bone to heal and 2 weeks post recovery as my foot was basically half it's normal size once the plaster came off.

I can sympathise with Copley as i knew something was wrong when i tried to run it off - went from fullback to wing thinking it was a sprain and it would come good but to no avail and had to come off.

Bad move in taking my boot off as it really ballooned in size - not sure what was worse the injury or sticking my foot in a bucket of ice on a rather cold wintery sleeting day in the Southern Highlands - Playing Mittagong Lions

[King Salvo]

Even our replacements for the reserves have gone down, it's almost getting to the comical stage.
I know the mantra is next man up but we will be calling up the drummer boy.
We are cursed at the moment with injuries, I've never seen a run like it anywhere.

Fitzy and Kingy look fit - special dispensation perhaps

[Monaco's Fan Club]

Morris to centre, Manu to wing

[Team Evil]

we can cover Butch come finals, we need some backs back.

[milanja]

Seriously I know he can't help it but fk me this was the problem with getting Copley, didn't even last 3 weeks. Definitely do feel for the guy, but we all knew it was sketchy getting an injury prone player...

Fool me twice……

[Bahrain Rooster]

Fair play to Copley for playing through the injury but jeez, that’s not ideal. Maybe Graham-Taufa gets a run on the wing next week .

[Thirteen]

Bad move signing Copley. Was inevitable that he would get injured just like he always has. He should piss off and join the A-League.