It's gonna suck only seeing hogan play one season with us, before he jets off to the Dockers.

One season? I thought he was faking the injury so he didn't have to play for the MFC at all

Are you epicly saying: tell us better injury return times?

It's frustrating as hell but I see it as more a confluence of badly managed events surrounding strategically important players than some sort of determined and destructive failure of communication:

Dawes evidently has a nagging calf complaint and others have alluded to management of a knee issue he has had for most of his career.

BUT the club could tell us whether there is a degenerative knee issue. Whether they should confirm that is another question.

Clark's foot issue is well known, with his latest soft tissue injury coinciding with, and compounding, his personal issues of late.

BUT the club could tell us a thorough timeline of his failed recovery and how they are going to manage it from the point he returns to the club. If he doesn't return, there is no way to manage that well in the interim.

Hogan copped a knock before the Geelong game, played in that game, and made it worse. The club is managing a huge investment as it should.

BUT the club didn't explicitly tell us when that hit came - they let the false belief that it came in the Geelong game perpetuate.

Gawn has bad knees as we know. He has bad hammies as a result. He has obviously had another setback.

BUT nothing, he was set to play and didn't pull up well. That is pure footy. And it sucks for all involved.

So if you got through all of that - I don't think it is a window into our badly run club, I think it is just a few tough situations that we can't be fully truthful about for various reasons relating to the welfare of the player in question, and the protection of that player and the staff to play when perhaps they should not have. That's just footy.

And as Danners said...

Footy sucks sometimes.

Can i say i think the MFC has been extraordinarily unlucky in this. If we had have had half the injuries in the tall forwards, and half in the mid field we would not have felt it nearly as much. but we have had it ALL in the forwards (except Viney and Garland). Gawn i count as a dominant forward ruck a la Paul Salmon (yes he will be as good as him when and if he gets fit).

I know it is difficult to accept now, but the club has assembled the nucleus of a champion team. we must be patient. If you doubt it, look at howe's game on saturday: he was tagged as the number one forward: he had no chance. but as number 3 or 4, he would dominate/

That is where we are at. I'm sure PR is as frustrated as anyone. It will come good in the end, then.....watch out!

And mine an attempt at humour. I refereed to my father as "the old man" and it was a term of endearment. I have no time for Dee supporters putting down others, sorry if you were offended.

I completely understood ManDee

No offence

Thanks to those who contributed actual training reports in this thread.

Satyr, I have a bone to pick with you. I saw you on the concourse outside Etihad with your good lady after the game on Saturday night and said g'day but you walked right past me as if I wasn't there. I'll excuse you for that because we were both worn, frazzled and frustrated after the fickle finger of fate had dealt us both a stunning blow inside the ground that evening.

Please keep up your reporting and optimism about the club and ignore the prophets of doom and the naysayers. People of our vintage know what it's like to taste success and I have a feeling we'll be able to share that feeling with a lot of others some day sooner than many would think.

May Whatever God you have smile on you.

I am happy to stand in the reflected glory

WJ sorry, but u know we are tiny, by the time we reacted in the crowd we were past you, lovely lady heard the call,

Only reason Hogan was in cart, it has a comfortable seat to watch rather than stand, he walked back to AAMI

Jay Z, Kanye...piffle Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Gil Scott-Heron

dont worry about him going back to wa, kn owing our luck

One season? I thought he was faking the injury so he didn't have to play for the MFC at all

dont worry about him going back to WA, knowing our luck he will be like gumbleton, has injury after injury, and everyone avoids him.

Just drove past Goschs and noticed Dawes running at a reasonable pace which was good to see!

Mate i drive past many training sessions (as part of my job) and i've been watching him run laps for the most part of the last 12 months. I'm not so sure seeing him "run laps" at any pace is necessarily a sign of something good. It could just as well be a bad sign. Maybe If i see him in a full on drill session with the rest of the undead, then yeah, a chubby might not be far away

Gee you can see blood in muscles

Thanks for the report

No, but it was mentioned in Misson's autopsy report

Really feel for the kid, this sort of injury right before his AFL debut would be devastating, i have no doubt he is 100% more frustrated than us and that's saying something

In the words of the great Seigfried....

"I find that hard to believe!"

Jack, sorry, Great Pretender (the irony is killing me) trying reading what I wrote and remember context. You know, context. You're a student of history, or so you boast. You'll know the importance of context. Saty is famous here for the "nothing to see here" manoeuvre last year. But you knew that. So are you, too. But hey, let's not dredge up the past. Otherwise I'll worry about men in black poisoning player drink bottles and laughing nefariously in darkened rooms. Alone.

Is it against the COC to call someone an idiot or deluded?

Mate i drive past many training sessions (as part of my job) and i've been watching him run laps for the most part of the last 12 months. I'm not so sure seeing him "run laps" at any pace is necessarily a sign of something good. It could just as well be a bad sign. Maybe If i see him in a full on drill session with the rest of the undead, then yeah, a chubby might not be far away

Well its still better then him walking laps or not even showing up,

Is it against the COC to call someone an [censored] or deluded?

I copped two weeks for it recently, even though it was censored so be careful!

Is it against the COC to call someone an idiot or deluded?

I suppose you just found out but I do suggest that you follow the unwritten rule of posting and don't feed the trolls.

Posters please stick to the topic.

WJ sorry, but u know we are tiny, by the time we reacted in the crowd we were past you, lovely lady heard the call

No problems, like most of us I still had steam coming out of my ears after the event. Loved your report and must add that the info I had about the Russian was the same other than that it was expected that he would take part in a Casey intraclub on Friday. However, I think that game might have fallen through altogether.

Keep up the good work and I hope we can catch up and that next time it will be after a win.

Well its still better then him walking laps or not even showing up,

Given our fitness record i think i'd rather see him swimming laps

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