Long term injuries to Cyril Rioli and Tex Walker a huge blow for AFL.
Cyril Rioli leaves the field after hurting his hamstring. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Herald Sun
HAWTHORN has suffered a huge injury blow with news Cyril Rioli will miss up to two months with a hamstring injury.
Rioli suffered a high grade tear to the lower part of his right hamstring during the fourth quarter of yesterday's thrilling win against North Melbourne.
The Hawks livewire will not require surgery, but the club has already conceded the 23-year-old will not play before its bye in Round 11.
The damage Rioli's absence could cause was no more apparent than yesterday considering, before he went off, he was a huge part of why the out-of-sorts Hawks were able to topple the Roos.
Rioli consulted with surgeons in the city this morning before fronting the media a short time ago to deliver the from news himself.
He said the injury was all the more frustrating considering his previous history with hamstring troubles in both legs.
Rioli, who was walking with a considerable limp today, said he expected his rehabilitation over the next few weeks to involve a lot of rest and swimming.
Rioli, who has a history of hamstring problems, went down clutching his right leg mid-way through the final quarter of the Hawks three-point win over North Melbourne.
He has missed extended runs of games due to hamstring problems over his career, but has not had a major issue since 2011.
That year he missed five games in two stretches while in 2009, his second year at Hawthorn, he missed three matches.
He played a crucial role in Hawthorn's victory yesterday before the injury, kicking four goals.
"He's obviously hurt his hamstring so we'll get that scanned during the week,'' Clarkson said.
"I dare say he'll miss a period of footy whether that's one week or longer we'll just have to wait and see next week.
"But for all those Adelaide Crows supporters, I'm pretty certain that they can be assured that he won't be playing next week.
"We're lucky we had him in the first three and a bit quarters because we would have been in a bit of trouble without him.
"That's obviously happened before, he's a pretty special talent. We needed some special things to occur today to just get us a goal when we really needed it and he did that on four occasions.''
Hawthorn lost the clearances 25 to 44 and had 16 less inside 50s than the Kangaroos yesterday.
Clarkson admitted North "certainly had the measure of our midfield today''
Who sang that song there's a fine line between pleasure and pain?''
Clarkson said: "I tell you what, there's a fine line today. I could have quite easily been sitting here absolutely spewing and perhaps North did deserve to win in terms of all the KPIs that they won during the game.
"To the credit of our guys, we've lost some of those close contests over the journey so it was pleasing to get one today.''
Clarkson said many of his players including Luke Hodge, who had just four touches to half time, and Lance Franklin, who failed to kick a goal, were down.
"There's lots of things to probably analyse about the game,'' Clarkson said.
"(We) probably would analyse it a bit deeper had we lost. If we win, it's probably just move on because our form hasn't been too bad up until this point in time.'
'Clarkson hoped midfielder Brad Sewell (hamstring) would be return to play Adelaide on Saturday.
"That's the thing with some of these soft tissue injuries, we thought it was going to be a one weeker...but it's ended up being three,'' he said.
"You've just got to be patient with them.''
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