Gold Coast Suns defender Nathan Bock participates in a light pool session with his teammates. Picture: Brendan Radke Source: Gold Coast Bulletin
GOLD Coast swingman Nathan Bock is still suffering pain in his repaired leg, and no date has been put on his return to the field.
Bock, who broke his right leg against Fremantle in Round 6 last year, had penciled in Round 1 as his comeback game.
But that estimate has proved way off the mark.
The Suns are only hopeful their vice-captain will be back after the Round 13 bye.
Bock, out of contract at the end of the year, had a steel rod inserted in his right leg that is now causing complications in his ankle.
The frustrating delay comes after a nightmare 2012 season for the 30-year-old, who was suspended for his part in a football betting scandal and saw his mother jailed for drug trafficking.
"He'll play (this year), but we don't want to put a specific time on it because once he gets close to that time it may prove ambitious," Gold Coast football manager Marcus Ashcroft said.
"Every other part around his body is getting sore because he's getting to a stage where he's trying to get match fit. He needs to be able to run with no pain.
"It's not as easy as coming back and then feeling 100 per cent and playing. There's a lot of stages to go through.
"He's started to do some skill work, but week to week there's been parts of his body that have been sore.
"We've had to listen to his body and back it off when we need to.
"It's as much a mental challenge as it is physical. In the last two to four weeks he's made good progress."
Suns coach Guy McKenna, who last week declared Bock a "mile off" being fit to play, surprised some this week when he said he wanted to re-sign him for another two to three years.
Ashcroft yesterday said Bock's future would be decided in the second half of the season.
"I think he's got to get himself back for his sake and the club's sake, to play some footy and then you can make a more considered judgment," Ashcroft said.
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