Possibly different circumstances?

Confirmed on the WA Guardian site out for six to eight months after various ops, Smith is happy with the squad with no new signing imminent.



Speedy recovery Ben you will be missed.

Maybe he will join the back room staff for rehabilitation purposes.

I think Ben must have realised if he continued as he was his career would be ended by 30 so a 8 month break may well do him the world of good and extend his career with us. He is a top lad all the best Ben

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as harsh as it sounds, i think this spells the end of his career as a SL player.

Strange comment, I think it could reignite his career as a SL player. He's clearly been carrying these injuries for some time, if he can get back to the player of 2/3 years a go he will be a very good player for us.



As long as we aren't talking complete knee reconstructions etc - which I don't think we are. It more seems like several injuries which means he will be able to do no training, so wont have the conditioning to play much of a part next season.

Let's hope md is being unduly pessimistic, I think he's made quite a leap!

im a massive pessimist, so its quite possible.



I thought this surgery was knee reconstruction.. if its not, then he could come back and still be a decent player... lets hope so because a fit Harrison can be a decent player.

It would seem harsh to offload Harrison because of a knee reconstruction, when we have signed Mitch Dodds who is getting over two knee reconstructions.

Bingo!

You don't? You don't? GHF.

From I guy that virtually all season out predicted all of us on how poor our season was too.



The England experiment failed. He is little better than a championship player and a crock and if we kept him we'd still have a player little better than a championship player and he'd still be a crock.



He'd have been out before Asotasi for me.