News spread today that Max Bailey, Second year ruckman for the Hawks who was looking to be an important part of the young Hawks side twisted his knee in training this morning when he had a collision with another player.
He had a scan this after noon and it showed the worst. Max has ruptured his right the ACL in his right knee and will have surgery some time next week.
Max would have been competing with Simon Taylor for the Backup Ruck job but that’s going to have to wait a year as he will be out the entire 2007 season. Max was given the honor of wearing number 1 but maybe this is another case of the curse of the number 36 at Hawthorn.
We wish Max all the best in his recovery and hope for him to come back bigger and better in 2007. I know my son will be disappointed as he was taking on Big Max Bailey as his favorite player after Spider was traded away.
Molly
