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CibbuanoEgan to have more surgery
May 30th 2008 00:23
GEELONG defender Matthew Egan will have more surgery in the next week as he tries to overcome stress fractures in his right foot.
The All-Australian centre half-back was ruled out for the remainder of the season earlier this month after stress fractures flared in the navicular bone.
The 24-year-old has not played since the final game of the home-and-away season last year, when the injury originally flared.
The injury resulted in him missing out on being a part of Geelong's first premiership in 44 years.
Egan worked hard to try to return in time for the grand final and says he has no regrets.
"I look back on it and think I made the right decision at the time, it's probably disappointing now to think it put me back this far," he told Channel Nine's The Footy Show.
"But so be it."
Egan said he had feared the injury could be career-threatening.
"You think about it at times, but a lot worse things could have happened," he said.
The All-Australian centre half-back was ruled out for the remainder of the season earlier this month after stress fractures flared in the navicular bone.
The 24-year-old has not played since the final game of the home-and-away season last year, when the injury originally flared.
The injury resulted in him missing out on being a part of Geelong's first premiership in 44 years.
Egan worked hard to try to return in time for the grand final and says he has no regrets.
"I look back on it and think I made the right decision at the time, it's probably disappointing now to think it put me back this far," he told Channel Nine's The Footy Show.
"But so be it."
Egan said he had feared the injury could be career-threatening.
"You think about it at times, but a lot worse things could have happened," he said.
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