Fwiw Jones said in an interview its minor and expects him to only miss one week.

4 hours ago, tilly18 said:

Out 1, maybe 2.

Try rest of the season!!!!

2 hours ago, Wiseblood said:

I think you greatly undervalue what Melksham brings to the side.

 

Not at all. But when a player goes down, it provides an opportunity for another to step up. I mean would Brayshaw have been able to have cemented his spot in the middle if Viney hadnt missed all this footy? I'd love to see AVB get a crack at it. Stayin positive about this one.

22 minutes ago, GCDee said:

Fwiw Jones said in an interview its minor and expects him to only miss one week.

Just being cautious as suspected. 

Back in vs the Swans to give them hell.

5 hours ago, layzie said:

Cannot take a damn trick. It seems the soft tissue injuries are really setting in

Really? Almost all of our rivals have far worse injury lists

23 minutes ago, Juicebox said:

 

Not at all. But when a player goes down, it provides an opportunity for another to step up. I mean would Brayshaw have been able to have cemented his spot in the middle if Viney hadnt missed all this footy? I'd love to see AVB get a crack at it. Stayin positive about this one.

I think Brayshaw would have got his chance he was bashing the door down but I see what you’re saying. Next man up, although Melksham is a loss hard to replace.

Edited August 1, 20186 yr by layzie

2 minutes ago, Farmer said:

Really? Almost all of our rivals have far worse injury lists

You don’t think the soft tissue injuries are setting in? We’ve had 4 in the space of two weeks. That’s a lot if you ask me.

5 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

So whos right, Misson or Channel 7?  If its channel 7,   Misson has got to go.

 

But elite performance manager Dave Misson was confident Melksham wouldn’t be sidelined for too long, saying it was a “very minor strain”.

“It happened in the second quarter, but he played out the match,” he told Melbourne Media.  

“Even though Jake’s pulled up well, we don’t want to risk him this round.

“We’ll reassess him next week.”

So he did it in the second quarter and they still took the risk to keep playing him, now he’s missed a week? Hmmm, I’ve lost confidence with our medical staff after the Viney debacle. Funny how our injuries have “bobbed up” since then. Maybe Misson gets a bonus for a KPI “games loss through injury.” Some weird injury stuff happening, Viney, Hibberd, Stretch, Melksham etc.

Our injury list is one of the smaller ones in the league.  Strains, bumps and bruises, especially at the tail end of the season.  Ridiculous calling for heads on the back of this.

http://m.afl.com.au/news/injury-list

I think Kent gets a run. 

Melksham is a bigger loss than he looks on paper. We will miss him, he has been very good this season.

8 hours ago, layzie said:

You don’t think the soft tissue injuries are setting in? We’ve had 4 in the space of two weeks. That’s a lot if you ask me.

Melk and Hibbo are our only 2 soft tissue injuries, aren't they?

1 hour ago, Mickey said:

Melk and Hibbo are our only 2 soft tissue injuries, aren't they?

Yeah and I counted Clarry’s quad scare. Thought Hannan might have been one too but it’s a jarred knee so I stand corrected at 3 soft tissue related issues. 

Some wild presumptions, medical misjudgements and bizarre over-reactions in this thread. Truth is we have been on the lighter side of injuries this year. Suck it up. Kent in. 

47 minutes ago, Webber said:

Some wild presumptions, medical misjudgements and bizarre over-reactions in this thread. Truth is we have been on the lighter side of injuries this year. Suck it up. Kent in. 

All I said was that the soft tissue injuries were starting to stack up which is true. Didn't mention anything about having hard luck with overall injuries or anything like that. Medical misjudgment yes but not bizarre over-reaction.

15 hours ago, tilly18 said:

Out 1, maybe 2.

out 1, maybe 2, possibly 3, probably 4, definitely season.

Misson has played this beautifully in his interview.

He played the optimistic card by saying that the injury is very minor, in order to appease the supporters.

On the other hand he never said he'd miss just 1 week so he's covered himself there in the event Melksham misses 3 which is probably the worst case scenario for a minor hamstring strain. 

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@melbournefc

 

Goodwin on Melksham: It looks like only the one week - it’s a really minor hamstring strain. He should recover really quickly.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Melksham is our most important player. He connects the good work of Max, Clarry and Gus with the rest of the forwardline and for some time has been the best assister in our team. He is also arguably our best shot at goal too.

I'm very concerned by his loss. If he doesn't play against Sydney, we'll lose.

Just now, A F said:

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Melksham is our most important player. He connects the good work of Max, Clarry and Gus with the rest of the forwardline and for some time has been the best assister in our team. He is also arguably our best shot at goal too.

I'm very concerned by his loss. If he doesn't play against Sydney, we'll lose.

His field kicking is superb and that takes a lot of hard work out of the play making, good point AF.

10 minutes ago, A F said:

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Melksham is our most important player. He connects the good work of Max, Clarry and Gus with the rest of the forwardline and for some time has been the best assister in our team. He is also arguably our best shot at goal too.

I'm very concerned by his loss. If he doesn't play against Sydney, we'll lose.

I reckon you've gone for a bit of hyperbole there, AF.  I agree that losing him hurts, but not to the point that him not playing is the difference between winning and losing.

However, as posted above, it sounds like he'll be back for the Swans game so I guess it's a moot point anyway.

13 hours ago, Jaded said:

Apparently channel 7 said 3 weeks. 

FMD we are not having a good run are we? I suppose when you look at GWS, Sydney and Collingwood tho, we haven’t got much to complain about. Yet. I’m sure next week 3 more will go down or something. 

Actually, if you look at the importance of the missing players at Collingwood and compare them with ours, our injury list is very comparable.

Collingwood's injuries have been played up greatly for a few years now and yet whenever anyone else has injuries, they're pretty much overlooked. Collingwood are thought to have great courage and system despite all their injuries and yet we played stretches of 2017 without both captains (one of whom was the equivalent of Treloar in Viney), our AA ruckman, our gun CHF and still won many games and were competitive in all.

This year we've lost our most important KPB (the week before playing Collingwood who have only beaten us in the top 8 - we didn't have time to adjust our system to cater for Cox); another AA defender from last year is injured in Hibberd; arguably our most important midfielder in Viney has barely played any of the season; despite his form, Hunt's injury has crippled our running stocks; and now our leading half forward and the leading assister in the league, is injured. 

But we're chokers who haven't beaten anyone in the top 8 and Collingwood are a premiership threat who have lost to Richmond by the same margin we did, but done it twice. Both times, Collingwood were lauded for the way they played in comfortable Richmond victories. Yet when we played Richmond, we were without Tom McDonald who incredibly could still win the Coleman despite missing a quarter of the season, and is as vital to our structure as Riewoldt is to Richmond's. 

I think it's [censored]. Don't get sucked in by the media love for Collingwood. Buckley's been there for years and is only just starting to beat teams in the bottom half of the ladder that they should be beating. They still haven't beaten anyone else in the top 8.

End rant.

13 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Confirmed by kerry Lambert off the Dees podcast who was talking to Billy while out with lunch from somone that works at the footy club. 

Was that Judd's grandmother, mate? ?

2 minutes ago, A F said:

Was that Judd's grandmother, mate? ?

Yes

30 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

I reckon you've gone for a bit of hyperbole there, AF.  I agree that losing him hurts, but not to the point that him not playing is the difference between winning and losing.

However, as posted above, it sounds like he'll be back for the Swans game so I guess it's a moot point anyway.

We'll be able to cover him this week. However, against the good teams, and make no mistake, Sydney are still a good team, his ability to hit targets inside 50 when no one else can is his major asset. Given our deplorable efficiency inside 50 at times this year, without Melksham's kicking, a side like Sydney will make us pay.

And if I've gone the hyperbolic route, let me adjust it to say without Melksham against Sydney, it will be very tough to beat them.

Edited August 2, 20186 yr by A F

12 minutes ago, A F said:

We'll be able to cover him this week. However, against the good teams, and make no mistake, Sydney are still a good team, his ability to hit targets inside 50 when no one else can is his major asset. Given our deplorable efficiency inside 50 at times this year, without Melksham's kicking, a side like Sydney will make us pay.

And if I've gone the hyperbolic route, let me adjust it to say without Melksham against Sydney, it will be very tough to beat them.

Are they? They lost to Gold Coast and their last few weeks have been pretty ordinary, Buddy is playing injured and is well below his best, maybe they are on the slide. Melk is important and every good player out hurts of course but we do have others who deliver the ball well inside F50 - Fritsch, Oliver, Salem to name 3.