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Well the new injury update format is very fancy and impractical. Great to add a few more mystery injuries to the book.

There's clearly a mental or physically resilience problem with KK. 3 year deal was it? That's a lot for a player who looks fine on the training track but battles to get through VFL games. 

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    6 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

    Well the new injury update format is very fancy and impractical. Great to add a few more mystery injuries to the book.

    There's clearly a mental or physically resilience problem with KK. 3 year deal was it? That's a lot for a player who looks fine on the training track but battles to get through VFL games. 

    He copped another head knock. I'm not sure how that is the fault of his 'resilience'? Just seems like bad luck to be honest.

     

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    12 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

    He copped another head knock. I'm not sure how that is the fault of his 'resilience'? Just seems like bad luck to be honest.

     

    Some players will get crunched in big hits and have a run of concussions due to bad luck but I doubt that's the case here. Did anyone ever see the incident that led to his first lay off this year? Players who have a propensity for getting concussions or concussion like symptoms from innocuous contact - like Paddy McCartin - are still very unlucky but it's because something mentally or physically is going wrong that puts them in danger or turns minimum contact in to something serious. Still bad luck and not their fault but it's a sign of something more at play that makes them far less resilient than their team mates.

    Our medical staff decided KK's concussion symptoms at the Gold Coast were all due to some neck problem that was meant to be fixed. Now it looks like he'll have managed 2 AFL games and not many more VFL games for the year. I'm highly skeptical. 

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    3 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

    Some players will get crunched in big hits and have a run of concussions due to bad luck but I doubt that's the case here. Did anyone ever see the incident that led to his first lay off this year? Players who have a propensity for getting concussions or concussion like symptoms from innocuous contact - like Paddy McCartin - are still very unlucky but it's because something mentally or physically is going wrong that puts them in danger or turns minimum contact in to something serious. Still bad luck and not their fault but it's a sign of something more at play that makes them far less resilient than their team mates.

    Our medical staff decided KK's concussion symptoms at the Gold Coast were all due to some neck problem that was meant to be fixed. Now it looks like he'll have managed 2 AFL games and not many more VFL games for the year. I'm highly skeptical. 

    Sure, you're more than entitled to make the assumption based on the public information, but not sure 'resilience' is the best word maybe? I would have thought the fact that he's managed to get back playing multiple times shows he has plenty of resilience.

    Weirdly, I have decent faith in our ability to manage concussions, especially if you look at how Nev and Gus both managed to bounce back and find even better form than they had previously. Every case is different though I guess.

    Does this mean you also think Nev and Gus lack resilience?

     

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    Pretty bizzare to give him a 3 year deal with his concussion history.

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    I think he's worth the punt.  If the club takes an ultra-conservative approach to his management and takes a couple of years to rebuild his body and make sure he's absolutely right for AFL that will still give us half a dozen years of service from a really good quality ball-user.  There's no point worrying about his lack of output this year given where he's coming from.  It's going to take time to get him sorted out and playing the way we need him to.  If he makes it then it's a huge win for the club.  If he doesn't then it's not a massive loss given he was steak knives in the May deal. 

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    Brayshaw and Nev’s concussions were handled very cautiously and that has worked out well. 

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