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Injuries to high draft picks

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Am I paranoid, or are Melbourne perpetually unlucky with injuries to high draft picks?

Petracca, Salem and Brayshaw have all had their careers seriously affected by injury/illness into their early years.

Hogan missed a whole year.

Watts missed most of his second year with back trouble.

Can Demonlanders remind me of others?

The Bulldogs get full seasons from the "Bont", Macrae,etc... these guys have rapidly become match  winners.

Ditto the Swans with Heaney, and the Blues  with Wetering, Cripps etc........the list goes on.

Is it just that I'm more familiar with our very high draftees, and don't notice the other teams' injury woes?

 

List goes on.. Blease Grimes Strauss Tapscott and even Scully when he missed fair chunk with a knee injury.

 

 

I'm not going to put much effort into it but Collingwood have suffered with Freeman and Scharenberg.  Suns have lost Swallow and O'Meara (Prestia).  McCartin, Ahern, Cockatoo have all had injury.  Boyd, Billings, Sheed from the previous year have suffered.

Young bodies trying to play a game against mature athletes suffer.  We've not been lucky by any stretch, but others have had injuries as well.


Referring back to OP - If I'm not wrong, Heaney missed a fair chunk of last year with an injury (sustained in the game against us, IIRC) that pretty much took him out of the rising star calculations.

Maybe because we always rush our stars out there without enough support around them to take the heat off them?

I dunno just spit balling.

 

 
1 minute ago, AzzKikA said:

Maybe because we always rush our stars out there without enough support around them to take the heat off them?

I dunno just spit balling.

 

Oh yeah, how Melbourne can't develop players...... 


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1 hour ago, small but forward said:

Referring back to OP - If I'm not wrong, Heaney missed a fair chunk of last year with an injury (sustained in the game against us, IIRC) that pretty much took him out of the rising star calculations.

That's one....not half a dozen.

injuries in the first 2 years are very common.  adjusting to AFL training and games.  its not just dees, its across the board

12 hours ago, Jumping Jack Clennett said:

Am I paranoid, or are Melbourne perpetually unlucky with injuries to high draft picks?

Petracca, Salem and Brayshaw have all had their careers seriously affected by injury/illness into their early years.

Hogan missed a whole year.

Watts missed most of his second year with back trouble.

Can Demonlanders remind me of others?

The Bulldogs get full seasons from the "Bont", Macrae,etc... these guys have rapidly become match  winners.

Ditto the Swans with Heaney, and the Blues  with Wetering, Cripps etc........the list goes on.

Is it just that I'm more familiar with our very high draftees, and don't notice the other teams' injury woes?

Cripps only played 3 in his first season due to injuries. 

We do seem to cop a lot, but we have more high draft picks than most, so more kids playing against men is most likely going to bring more injuries. 

 

14 hours ago, Jumping Jack Clennett said:

Am I paranoid, or are Melbourne perpetually unlucky with injuries to high draft picks?

Petracca, Salem and Brayshaw have all had their careers seriously affected by injury/illness into their early years.

Hogan missed a whole year.

Watts missed most of his second year with back trouble.

Can Demonlanders remind me of others?

The Bulldogs get full seasons from the "Bont", Macrae,etc... these guys have rapidly become match  winners.

Ditto the Swans with Heaney, and the Blues  with Wetering, Cripps etc........the list goes on.

Is it just that I'm more familiar with our very high draftees, and don't notice the other teams' injury woes?

Paranoid. You bring up the Bulldogs, but don't mention Libba?


Clay Smith from the Dogs has had 3 knee recos now, pick 17.

Cripps played a handful of games in his first year due to injury

Paddy McCartin pick 1 constantly being concussed career under threat.

Scharenberg Pies pick 6 barely played a game due to injury

Freeman Pies/Saints barely played a game due to injury

Cam McCarthy pick 14 not played at all this year due to homesickness

Jono O Rourke pick 2 Giants missed most of first year injured

Need we go on?

 

22 hours ago, small but forward said:

Referring back to OP - If I'm not wrong, Heaney missed a fair chunk of last year with an injury (sustained in the game against us, IIRC) that pretty much took him out of the rising star calculations.

 Cripps also had a broken leg in his first year IIRC

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12 hours ago, DemonDave said:

Clay Smith from the Dogs has had 3 knee recos now, pick 17.

Cripps played a handful of games in his first year due to injury

Paddy McCartin pick 1 constantly being concussed career under threat.

Scharenberg Pies pick 6 barely played a game due to injury

Freeman Pies/Saints barely played a game due to injury

Cam McCarthy pick 14 not played at all this year due to homesickness

Jono O Rourke pick 2 Giants missed most of first year injured

Need we go on?

One or two from each club.

Has any other club got six or seven examples.

 I'm not talking about pick 17(Clay Smith, Cam McCarthy)... I'm talking about picks in the top 5.

Petracca,Brayshaw, Scully, Watts, Trengrove,Salem,even Cale Morton ruptured his posterior cruciate ligament in a practice match early in his career,holding back his progress badly.

Other clubs get one or two top pick casualties. We get half a dozen.

Edited by Jumping Jack Clennett
Typos

Now that concussion is starting to threaten careers, I wonder how long until a player's susceptibility to it will put them down the draft (if they have measures of testing it that is)

Edited by Je Roos Salem


Bulldogs: Clay Smith (ACL, ACL, ACL), Libba (ACL)

Gold Coast: O'Meara, Prestia, Swallow, Bennell, Dixon, Martin - you name it, they've had it

GWS: Cam McCarthy, Dev Smith, WHE, Buntine, Marchbank

St Kilda: Paddy (Obesity, diabetes, concussion), Billings (knee/hammy), Freeman (again)

Freo: Morabito

Coll: Scharenberg, Freeman

Petracca was a freak injury. Maybe with his size and power they could've done more prehab strengthening of his knee but he's a big muscly lad. I can't blame that.

Brayshaw might've been overplayed last year and underdone in preseason, but contact media injury in to contact concussion injuries largely suffered in the VFL. A lot of bad luck there.

Salem a freak illness, should get better. Hogan, enough said about that.

As I've said a number of times the best way to stop messing up/getting injuries to and anything else with top picks is for us to stop having top picks!

 
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Anyone who gets injured from GWS or Gold Coast will be a high draft pick, but they're OK there's umpteen more where they came from.

Your posts have convinced me, DeeSpencer........we have been dreadfully unlucky with injuries to high draft picks. By the way, your namesake did his knee, too, but we're not discussing the lower draft picks.

If Wetering or the Bont played for us, they'd have done their A C L by now, and they've both been pushed straight from junior football to AFL. No clever gradual development there.

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