'Screw it': Why Cat is playing through ACL injury

'Screw it': Why Cat is playing through ACL injury

Geelong star Gryan Miers partially tore his anterior cruciate ligament, chose not to have surgery and is now a pivotal part of the Cats' AFL finals campaign.

'Nah, screw it, I'm playing' - Miers' risk worth taking

Gryan Miers knows his right knee could let him down at any moment and end his AFL premiership dream. But the deep-thinking Geelong playmaker has never been scared of failure. Miers has been playing with a partially torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) since April, when he opted against surgery to keep his season alive. “I left the surgeon’s office, sold that I was going for surgery in probably two or three days,” Miers said ahead of Friday’s se…