Dr. Brendan de Morton

Team: Frank Drmic, Simon Dwight, Scott McGregor, Brendan Mann, Ben Melmeth, Matthew Nielsen, Aaron Trahair, Sam Mackinnon, Phil Doherty, Ben Pepper, Brad McKinnon, Chris Anstey, Gary Evans (HOD), Ian Stacker (Head Coach), Bruce Palmer (Ass.Coach), Bob McGugan (Manager), Brendan de Morton (Doctor), Steve Evans (Physio), Steve Godfrey (Masseur)

"Tony's likely to play, but we have to confirm it," said team doctor Brendan De Morton.

Dr Brendan de Morton

Brendan is a sports doctor with a practice in Melbourne (Essendon).His sports medicine experience includes AFL experience with 4 years as "assistant doctor" at Essendon (1991-1995) and 7 seasons as deputy and head doctor at Carlton (1999-2005) interspersed with service in the NBL (SE Melbourne Magic/Melbourne Titans (1997-2002), Australian U23 Basketball Team and Olympic and Commonwealth Games.Brendan was the "medical face" of the "Blood Rules OK" video, widely distributed to sporting organisations in 2001.At the Fiji Conference, Brendan presented the Joint Injection Workshop, Travelling with a Team Workshop, as well as involvement with the "Emergency on Field Medicine" workshop with other SDrA members.Brendan is a Committee member of SDrA and a former SMA Victoria Council member.

Titans Club Doctor Brendan de Morton said that Anstey's recovery plan will involve initial rest, followed by light exercise, physiotherapy and other rehabilitation and a full return in 6 weeks time.

Lewis interviewed Charman, Deluca, Carlton's club doctor Brendan DeMorton, field umpire Darren Morris and a boundary umpire before reporting Charman, who will travel to Melbourne to defend the charge.