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Luck or Good Prep?

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What do you make of our, fingers crossed, lack of injuries in 2018 so far. 

Luck or good preparation from our high performance fitness & medical staff?

 Or is it the lack of a preseason camp? Kidding. Too soon?

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@Demonland I break out in sweats when i see these types of articles.

Impossible for us on the outside to know but obviously the better the management the luckier you get.  Clearly things were not done to their optimum last year and it may be that we learned a lesson or 2 from that.

Luck or good management or a combination.  Just hope it keeps up.  its our turn.

 

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Good luck. There is so much sports science around fitness, recovery, recuperation etc, unless the medico's push the envelope then it is good luck as the human body is an imperfect machine and some players are just injury prone no matter how much you wrap them up in cotton wool

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7 minutes ago, Stretch Johnson said:

@Demonland I break out in sweats when i see these types of articles.

I say a little prayer everytime I open Facebook or Twitter to ward off evil spirits. I keep expecting the worst. Lucky we were all kept in the dark about Clarry's surgery or Demonland (the website and the poster) would have had a meltdown. 

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As a physiotherapist, I should be able to say it's good management, but the simple truth is that with the uniformity of elite standards in sports medical management now, it is mostly plain luck. For proof, a team may have the same staff, fitness programmes and injury management principles across several years, but whilst one year will be a clean sheet (think Richmond last year), the very next will be an injury riddled disaster. Collective consciousness? Morphic resonance? Who knows. I do know however that it can all go south very quickly, or all come together over a succession of weeks. All other things being equal, keeping your fingers crossed is about as much good as anything. 

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6 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Must say during that last quarter on Sunday ... while I was enjoying the win I was dreading a late injury. Kept thinking... Take Gawn off etc

Same but I was thinking Viney. 

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Luck. Premierships are mostly won by luck too. In fact, success of almost every kind comes down to luck more than anything. The only way to manipulate luck that I've found is to never give up. If you keep trying you're in the game. If you're in the game long enough, luck will eventually find you.

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It has to be a bit of both; but for the most part its good/bad luck with injuries.

However, I don't think that you can put Adelaide and Collingwood's soft tissue issues down purely to bad luck.  The frequency with which they occur and reoccur seems to point towards something wrong with their preparation and/or recovery.

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Surely the answers are YES and YES

Poor preparation and / or use or reliance on PEDs as we have seen increases risk of soft tissue injuries in particular but impact and twisting injuries are largely a matter of luck

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On 5/21/2018 at 4:10 PM, Diamond_Jim said:

Must say during that last quarter on Sunday ... while I was enjoying the win I was dreading a late injury. Kept thinking... Take Gawn off etc

Yep, take Gawn off at that time was everyone's mantra ... TMac and Viney, as well. Phew!

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