MELBOURNE Player Injury Estimated Return Mitch Clark Hamstring 2-3 weeks Chris Dawes Calf 1-2 weeks Colin Garland Ankle 3-4 weeks Aidan Riley* Leg 6 weeks Luke Tapscott Knee 1 week Updated: Wednesday, March 5

As posted on AFL.com.au

What sort of Hamstring is 9-10 weeks Must be very very bad!

Oh man. I honestly forget how good he really is. Can't wait for him to come back.

Thanks YD :D

Thanks YD so great to watch again Cant wait

Not going to get in a "mines bigger than yours" But Played seniors in the Old Federal league....Played VFA, captain/coached my own team I am over 60 and still go to Gym...I am 6'2 in the old....I have had the odd calf, quad, hamstring......All I am saying is injuries happen....It is a hard sport we play...I have better things to do rather than try to prove myself to anyone...I had limited abilities but got the best out of myself through hard work.....

Then Im tipping you will be fit before Cark...

Its not a "bigger than yours" issue, you made an accusation that I had never played footy and I have, and I have managed quite a few injuries.

Thats not the point, its a lazy and sharp accusation to say one obviously hasnt played football. So I put up an option that you arent keen on. Funny that.

Jeff White says hi.

I loved Laurie Fowler

Peter Moore won a Brownlow after he came across as well.

Brian Wilson also comes to mind.

This is Clarks 3rd season.

He is getting $800,000 a year.

He is out of contract at the end of September 2015, I think.

He has played 15 games for Melbourne Football Club.

please someone tell me Ive got it wrong.

Couldnt agree more we could get a Dangerfield for $ 800,000 a year the guys a waste a coin and the sooner his 4 yr contracts up and he's delisted the better.

What sort of Hamstring is 9-10 weeks Must be very very bad!

It's not so much just the hamstring.

It's building up his fitness to AFL standard, after not having played hardly at all for 18 months.

And in his efforts to build up that fitness, he has suffered hamstring setbacks.

That stops him from being able to continue building his fitness.

Simply, his hamstring may allow him to get back into full training, but that does not mean he is at full fitness, capable of playing out an AFL match.

What sort of Hamstring is 9-10 weeks Must be very very bad!

Yes, his footy career is becoming hamstrung.

Bad news , Jesse hogan has injured his back.

Suspected stress fracture.

This doesn't even make sense. When??

Couldnt agree more we could get a Dangerfield for $ 800,000 a year the guys a waste a coin and the sooner his 4 yr contracts up and he's delisted the better.

This is an imbecilic comment. When was Dangerfield available and what evidence do you have to suggest we couldn't pay him $800k as well as Clark? In fact, as I put to Franky and now put to you: name me a single player in the last three years we've missed out on because we couldn't pay their asking price.

Exactly. Stupid comparison because no player has wanted to come to Melbourne for years, and if we don't show form this year it'll be the same story.

Meanwhile the club website's official injury list still dates back to the Richmond NAB Challenge:-

Injury list: NAB Challenge, round one v Richmond
Mitch Clark (hamstring) – 3-4 weeks
Colin Garland (ankle) 4-6 weeks
Aidan Riley (leg) – 8 weeks

Meanwhile the club website's official injury list still dates back to the Richmond NAB Challenge:-

Injury list: NAB Challenge, round one v Richmond

Mitch Clark (hamstring) – 3-4 weeks

Colin Garland (ankle) 4-6 weeks

Aidan Riley (leg) – 8 weeks

Your expecting more?

Your expecting more?

either more, or just drop it completely

either more, or just drop it completely

You have my vote dc

This is one area where the media actually give us more accurate info.

Edited March 10, 201411 yr by old dee

No suprise about Clark. I think Dawes may be a bit behind as well. I highly doubt he will be ready for round 1.

Hogan, Fitzpatrick, Pedersen and Howe. I'm pretty happy with that for round 1. Hopefully JKH will get a game.

Still think we will beat the saints, and hopefully Dawes will be getting a game shortly after.

I would love to have Clark back and over his injuiries 100%

I sense that they are deliberately taking the slow approach with our talls, especially out mature talls.

I suspect this could be to make our running size players work harder with more responsibility to make up the short fall as it were. But also to allow our talls to have more of an impact after we are into the season proper; & this would allow us to have a strong run home to the pointy end of season 2014... with our talls hopefully seeing out the season well.

bringing the talls on early, especially in this season, is no point. get them right,,,,,, & get the midfield & half backs running properly with no early easy chop outs, forcing the thinking to change to the new gamestyle of spreading both ways. by necessity.

Edited March 11, 201411 yr by dee-luded

I sense that they are deliberately taking the slow approach with our talls, especially out marture talls.

I suspect this could be to make our running size players work harder with more responsibility to make up the short fall as it were. But also to allow our talls to have more of an impact, after we are into the season proper; & this would allow us to have a strong run home to the pointy end of season 2014... with our talls hopefully seeing out the season well.

bringing the talls on early, especially in this season, is no point. get them right,,,,,, & get the midfield & half backs running properly with no early easy chop outs, forcing the thinking to change to the new gamestyle of spreading both ways. by necessity.

Your theory holds a lot of water dee-luded but one line tickled my fancy.

They probably won't hit the ground till late July so that should not be too hard to achieve you would think.

Geez Franky --- why don't you put in an application to oust Missen; or we could just have a coup. It would be just great to have a super expert like yourself to run the fitness regimen rather than an absolute amateur like Missen. I am sure were you running the program both Clark and Dawes would be out there killing the opposition already (unless of course they are either of both just too lazy to bother preparing themselves, as you imply.).

What a load of absolute BS would be an alternative interpretation.

what we need is a team Full of Blade Runners

can we just chop them all below the knees, & fit them with blades of varying lengths depending on Matchups ? this would help with spring, & in winter as well when the leap is wanting.

Wadda ya think Monocular, a plan?

just keep them away from guns

Brian Wilson also comes to mind.

the main injury Willo had, was being crashed thru the MFC steel picket fence, by Norths John Law I think.

multiple arm fractures.

What sort of Hamstring is 9-10 weeks Must be very very bad!

Its not the injury, its the rebuilding the strength into the wasted muscles after such a long layoff.... otherwise the hamstrings may keep popping

Its not the injury, its the rebuilding the strength into the wasted muscles after such a long layoff.... otherwise the hamstrings may keep popping

A number of years ago dee-luded I was doing a lot of swimming and developed problems with my left shoulder.

After much treatment and changing technique I ended up at a specialist who said to me " your body is trying to tell you something, find another sport to keep fit"

So I took up cycling.

Funny but my shoulder is ok now.

I suspect that Clark is now the victim of soft tissue problems that will plague him the rest of his Football career if he still has one.

I also suspect Dawes is in a similar boat.

I don't expect much from either of them in 2014 or beyond.

Your theory holds a lot of water dee-luded but one line tickled my fancy.

They probably won't hit the ground till late July so that should not be too hard to achieve you would think.

I think that Dawes will be right for Rnd 1,,, or 2 at the worst.

I've been saying, I would hold Hogan back until the forward line is functioning well.

Our perennial biggest problem isn't our talls, its our work ethic & hardness at the contest, for a Long Long time, & it showed up Long ago in the 2000 Grand Final. we were pretenders. we wasted Schwart'as career. not enough hard support & too many airy fairies.

we have to get tougher, more rugged, & ruthless as well. we have been a nice club since the early 70's. bringing in Ditterich, or brad miller won't fix the niceness.. its the nice onfield culture that has to be surgically removed.

I think that Pederson was moved back into the forward group, as they new we would go in to the early season with Clark not ready & hogan needs to be sheltered from the whole load of the forwardline on his shoulders.

My forwardline for Rnd 2, >

Viney Dawes Mitchie

Fitzpatrick Howe ????

this early season, with some key players getting tuned up by the surgeons & the fitness staff, will have longer term benefits.

I'd much prefer to have a slow start, (winning Rnd 1) & easing into the season; & by Rnd 6 - 8,,, be hitting our straps for a strong run home; & the players being hopefully right for the 2015 preseason & beyond.

I think that Dawes will be right for Rnd 1,,, or 2 at the worst.

I've been saying, I would hold Hogan back until the forward line is functioning well.

Our perennial biggest problem isn't our talls, its our work ethic & hardness at the contest, for a Long Long time, & it showed up Long ago in the 2000 Grand Final. we were pretenders. we wasted Schwart'as career. not enough hard support & too many airy fairies.

we have to get tougher, more rugged, & ruthless as well. we have been a nice club since the early 70's. bringing in Ditterich, or brad miller won't fix the niceness.. its the nice onfield culture that has to be surgically removed.

I think that Pederson was moved back into the forward group, as they new we would go in to the early season with Clark not ready & hogan needs to be sheltered from the whole load of the forwardline on his shoulders.

My forwardline for Rnd 2, >

Viney Dawes Mitchie

Fitzpatrick Howe ????

this early season, with some key players getting tuned up by the surgeons & the fitness staff, will have longer term benefits.

I'd much prefer to have a slow start, (winning Rnd 1) & easing into the season; & by Rnd 6 - 8,,, be hitting our straps for a strong run home; & the players being hopefully right for the 2015 preseason & beyond.

I understand where you are coming from and agree with much of this however one item concerns me.

We are in deep trouble on our forward line if we think that Pedersen can help with anything.

I know there are probably no alternatives but Pedersen!