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Melbourne injury list: round one

Sam Frost (toe) – test

Colin Garland (knee) – season

Michael Hibberd (Achilles) – 2-3 weeks

Liam Hulett (hip) – 3-4 weeks

Jay Kennedy-Harris (arm) – 2-3 weeks

Mitch King (knee) – 5 weeks

Aaron vandenBerg (heel) – 4-6 weeks

Josh Wagner (fibula) – 2-3 weeks

Mitch White (ankle) – 2-3 weeks

 

We always seem to end up with a lot of injuries before round 1. Luckily not our best players, but still a fairly large list.

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4 minutes ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

Just read the article on the club app time stamped as 10am this morning! Why did they wait so long to tell us!! 

Most rookie upgrades are done just ahead of selection, by all teams.

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Just now, Redleg said:

Melbourne injury list: round one

Sam Frost (toe) – test

Colin Garland (knee) – season

Michael Hibberd (Achilles) – 2-3 weeks

Liam Hulett (hip) – 3-4 weeks

Jay Kennedy-Harris (arm) – 2-3 weeks

Mitch King (knee) – 5 weeks

Aaron vandenBerg (heel) – 4-6 weeks

Josh Wagner (fibula) – 2-3 weeks

Mitch White (ankle) – 2-3 weeks

 

We always seem to end up with a lot of injuries before round 1. Luckily not our best players, but still a fairly large list.

IMO there are three their that would be playing on Saturday.

Frost, Vandenberg and Hibberd. They will be missed and may be the difference between winning and losing.

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1 minute ago, Redleg said:

That would be very disappointing. He is our best goal assist and best kick for goal. IMO, if he is left out that will hurt us.

It is what it is Mr. Leg

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Most rookie upgrades are done just ahead of selection, by all teams.

yeah sometimes, other times they can be done on monday.. or the week before... really its completely random there have been rookie elevations dotted throughout the whole week. It doesnt really matter but like i said earlier they have played selection very close to the chest this week.

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If watts doesn't play it's for 1 reason and that he doesn't add enough forward pressure, if we are to beat the saints our forward pressure needs to be relentless for the whole game, we know we will win enough in the middle and the mids will put pressure on but we can't afford for saints to run the ball out of our back line as easy as west coast did we will get slaughtered 

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9 minutes ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

yeah sometimes, other times they can be done on monday.. or the week before... really its completely random there have been rookie elevations dotted throughout the whole week. It doesnt really matter but like i said earlier they have played selection very close to the chest this week.

Surely it is a wise policy to wait till the last minute. What if the rookie is run over by a bus after he's been promoted?(or injured at training/gym).

 

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Joel smith in... mfc website

I'm absolutely thrilled that Joel is set to debut. 

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20 minutes ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

Any chance of a list of things that would surpise you? just so we can narrow down our wild speculation. 

Someone tracked down Allen Jakovich and he's lacing up on the weekend!

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56 minutes ago, Grand New Flag said:

Looking forward to this game.

The team has been selected.  

There are some big surprises!!!!!!

That is all I can say.

you don't need to tell us what they are, just let me know how many of the below are correct:

Trenners is playing

Hannan is playing

Pedo is playing

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49 minutes ago, old dee said:

IMO there are three their that would be playing on Saturday.

Frost, Vandenberg and Hibberd. They will be missed and may be the difference between winning and losing.

Its nearly impossible to have everyone available for a given match, even St Kilda who have a much shorter injury list than ours have Leigh Montagna and Koby Stevens out of their best side.

The old adage that you're only as good as your replacements rings true, we need to get to a point where the depth of the squad can cover a "normal" amount of unavailable players. This game is a great test of that.

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53 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Melbourne injury list: round one

Sam Frost (toe) – test

Colin Garland (knee) – season

Michael Hibberd (Achilles) – 2-3 weeks

Liam Hulett (hip) – 3-4 weeks

Jay Kennedy-Harris (arm) – 2-3 weeks

Mitch King (knee) – 5 weeks

Aaron vandenBerg (heel) – 4-6 weeks

Josh Wagner (fibula) – 2-3 weeks

Mitch White (ankle) – 2-3 weeks

 

We always seem to end up with a lot of injuries before round 1. Luckily not our best players, but still a fairly large list.

last year we had very few, in fact not many all year

only one of the above is best 22 IMO. 4-5 are best 30 though so hopefully we dont get any more or we will be tested

 

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1 hour ago, Grand New Flag said:

Looking forward to this game.

The team has been selected.  

There are some big surprises!!!!!!

That is all I can say.

Spencer and no Watts is my guess as well as Joel Smith.

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last year we had very few, in fact not many all year

only one of the above is best 22 IMO. 4-5 are best 30 though so hopefully we dont get any more or we will be tested

 

Who?

Three IMO, Frost Hibberd and AV

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