You could almost see the shivers run down the Hawks’ faithfuls’ spines when captain-coach Willie Heta went down with a knee injury inside the opening 10 minutes of the Group 10 premier league all-Orange derby a fortnight ago.
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No wonder, he’s been an almost-stoppable force from five-eighth this year.
He toughed out the remaining 70 minutes of the game but was visibly hampered, which did alleviate a lot of fears surrounding the injury.
But it still kept him out of Sunday’s loss to Oberon, the two blues looked substantially less organised and less threatening without him, and it could keep him out for longer too.
“The physios said said weeks, but they’ll always give you the worst case scenario I think,” Heta said after Sunday’s loss, confirming a medial cruciate ligament injury.
“I gave it until (Saturday) before deciding to not play (against Oberon), not sure on next week. It’s more important I’m playing in the finals than the last couple of regular season games though I think.”
Matt Findlay
Formerly a sports specialist, I'm based at Orange and shift between wide-spread range of subjects here and, often, across the entire Central West region of NSW as well. I have almost a decade of experience in the media and marketing industries both here in Australia and internationally, along with journalism I have experience in content strategy, brand development, and digital and social media. Along the way, I've been fortunate to win a handful of media awards and be nominated for several others too.
Formerly a sports specialist, I'm based at Orange and shift between wide-spread range of subjects here and, often, across the entire Central West region of NSW as well. I have almost a decade of experience in the media and marketing industries both here in Australia and internationally, along with journalism I have experience in content strategy, brand development, and digital and social media. Along the way, I've been fortunate to win a handful of media awards and be nominated for several others too.
