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Haddin aims to perform
Hughes leads Redback charge
Bushrangers smash Warriors
WICKETKEEPER Brad Haddin says gaining Test cricket
selection is the easy part — it’s up to him to perform.
NSW stumper Haddin has displayed a good early
season as he looks to force his way back into the
Australian team. Haddin will lead the Sydney Sixers in
this month’s Champions League T20. ‘‘I’ve always
thought about making sure I’m prepared the best I
possibly can be and the selection part is the easy
part,’’ he said.
PHIL Hughes closed in on a century on his South
Australia debut as his teammates crumbled around
him at stumps on day two of the Sheffield Shield
match against Queensland at the Gabba yesterday.
Former Test opener Hughes will resume on 95no as
South Australia ended the day on 7-164, in response
to Queensland’s 398 all out. In the wake of his
dumping from the Australian team Hughes left NSW
for South Australia and the move has paid dividends.
VICTORIA needed little more than two days of cricket
to complete an emphatic outright victory over
Western Australia in their Sheffield Shield clash at
the WACA. The Bushrangers needed just one ball in
their second innings to wrap up the 10-wicket win
before lunch on the third day, yesterday. John
Hastings, named man-of-the-match, made the most
of the easy pickings to claim 5-30 and he finished
with seven wickets for the game.
‘Players need
to be tough’
AUSTRALIAN RULES
By GREY MORRIS
when Hawthorn defender
Alle De Wolde broke his
left rib and sternum bone
with a vicious shirtfront.
‘‘I was playing in a practice match and had already
taken a mark and kicked a
goal and thought how easy
is this,’’ he recalled
‘‘Three minutes later I
did it again and bang,
De Wolde gave me a
big welcome to the
big league.’’
Sutton remembers another time at Robinvale in
Nowadays it’s all about injury
management. In my day you played
because you wanted to and, in most
cases, had to
‘‘I never used injury as
an excuse. I took plaster off
broken bones many times
to play footy.
‘‘I did weaken one time
when I stayed in Deni and
missed the 1981-82 season
in Darwin because the club
wanted me fully fit the
next year.
‘‘Training on my own
must have paid off because
I kicked a lazy 249 goals in
‘82. One game I booted 24.13
and kicked two out on the
full after the coach told me
to stay in the goalsquare
and not move because I
told him I felt a bit crook.’’
Sutton reckons his worst
injury was at Footscray
the Mildura League when
he had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee on
the Thursday.
‘‘I wanted to play an
interleague game on
Saturday but the selectors
reckoned I wasn’t fit
enough after the operation,’’ he said.
‘‘So I played with Robinvale on the Sunday and
kicked 17.
‘‘The league wanted to
suspend me for not making
myself available for the
interleague game.
‘‘But I pointed to the
selectors not picking me
and I never heard anything
more about it.’’
PUB:
Trevor Sutton has copped his fair share of footy injuries over the years and reckons today’s players
should be tougher when it comes to dealing with injuries
Picture: MICHAEL FRANCHI
GOALKICKING legend
Trevor Sutton reckons
today’s footballers are a bit
soft when it comes to playing with injuries.
And Sutton, who kicked
more than 4000 goals in a
688-game playing career
over 25 seasons, has his
own injury list to prove it.
Best remembered by Top
End fans for his time at
Nightcliff in the late 1970s
and early ‘80s, Sutton was
a football journeyman who
made goalkicking an
art form.
He kicked an Australian
record 249 goals for
Deniliquin in the Murray
League in the 1982 season
and was the first player to
kick a century of goals in
the Darwin competition.
Sutton’s 103 goals in the
1979-80 NTFL season were
followed by 99 in the
1982-83 campaign.
‘‘They’re a bit precious
with injuries nowadays,
that’s for sure, and it’s
got a lot to do with the
money they’re earning,’’
Sutton said.
‘‘I was talking to Michael
Gardiner and Tarkyn
Lockyer who are great
family friends and we had
a laugh about it.
‘‘I was on $120 a game
with Footscray in 1971
while Gardiner was on
$800,000 a year at West
Coast and Lockyer $700,000
at Collingwood.
‘‘I missed the grand total
of six games with injury in
my career and three of
those were after my second
knee operation at Sandgate
in Brisbane in 1979.
‘‘Nowadays it’s all about
injury management. In my
day you played because
you wanted to and, in most
cases, had to.
‘‘I remember getting 37
cortisone injections a week
in my left foot after they
opened it up from the big
toe through the arch to the
heel and still played on
the weekend.
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