Heard that Jake Lever has a sore foot and will miss this week.

7 minutes ago, Chelly said:

Heard that Jake Lever has a sore foot and will miss this week.

Steven May said on Fox Footy that Lever has a foot issue and could miss this week apparently.

 

9 minutes ago, Chelly said:

Heard that Jake Lever has a sore foot and will miss this week.

I read this on the changes thread a half hour ago just after I posted how strong the Casey team should be due to the reduction in the injury list.

Words fail me.. except to say it must be a very sore foot if it's still there after a week off.

Let me guess we rushed Lever back for QB when he should've come back after the bye...

17 minutes ago, Chelly said:

Heard that Jake Lever has a sore foot and will miss this week.

It will take more than a sore foot for Rick Lever to miss. Pump it full of the good stuff and put him out there. 

4 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

I read this on the changes thread a half hour ago just after I posted how strong the Casey team should be due to the reduction in the injury list.

Words fail me.. except to say it must be a very sore foot if it's still there after a week off.

 

4 minutes ago, Matt Demon said:

Let me guess we rushed Lever back for QB when he should've come back after the bye...

Apparently he was already sore before the Collingwood game.

Who would have thought 3 quarters of a VFL game over the course of 3 weeks wasn't enough preparation after a year out of the game....?

 

3 hours ago, Lord Nev said:

 

Apparently he was already sore before the Collingwood game.

Who would have thought 3 quarters of a VFL game over the course of 3 weeks wasn't enough preparation after a year out of the game....?

 

Wow can we get anymore Melbourne. 

Injury prone player who now has an injured foot. 

Talk about déjà Vu 

16 minutes ago, olisik said:

Wow can we get anymore Melbourne. 

Injury prone player who now has an injured foot. 

Talk about déjà Vu 

We can pick them. 

5 hours ago, chookrat said:

Pump it full of the good stuff and put him out there. 

Dave Misson approves

Sam Edmund reporting on SEN that Jake Lever is actually suffering from knee soreness not foot soreness.

 

31 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

Sam Edmund reporting on SEN that it is actually knee soreness not foot soreness.

 

FFS!

36 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

Sam Edmund reporting on SEN that it is actually knee soreness not foot soreness.

 

Did he mention which knee Lord? Need to know where to set the anger metre.

I’d recruit Nakia Cockatoo.  Injury prone Cat who can’t string 3 games together without an injury and then misses 6/8 weeks. Perfect alignment to our list. 

1 hour ago, Lord Nev said:

Sam Edmund reporting on SEN that it is actually knee soreness not foot soreness.

Did May tell a little porkie (on Fox) that Lever had foot soreness to deflect attention from an on-going knee problem? The Fox show was 10 days after the QB game, one would expect May to know which it was.

If Lever was sore (knee or foot) before QB, as May said, and we played him it is up there on the stupidity stakes.  QB was a big game but not significant from a season view so with his injury history, and just 3 qtrs of football in a year, why take the risk.  Just stupid.

At the QBD game Lever did do some awkward moves and grab at the knee a few times. I have even heard someone say they “though he had re done his knee a few times throughout the match but it obviously wasn’t the case”

1 hour ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Did May tell a little porkie (on Fox) that Lever had foot soreness to deflect attention from an on-going knee problem? The Fox show was 10 days after the QB game, one would expect May to know which it was.

If Lever was sore (knee or foot) before QB, as May said, and we played him it is up there on the stupidity stakes.  QB was a big game but not significant from a season view so with his injury history, and just 3 qtrs of football in a year, why take the risk.  Just stupid.

 

2 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Did he mention which knee Lord? Need to know where to set the anger metre.

Didn't hear the segment myself, was just told what was said. Don't know which knee, but you'd assume hey?

To clarify, it sounds like he does have some foot soreness, but it's the knee soreness that is the problem and the thing that could see him miss this week.

Guessing here, but it could be that he had foot soreness before the QB game, but now he has knee soreness that's bad enough to keep him from playing. Absolute guess though.

I've not been one of the 'Misson bashers', but given what seems to have been a growing problem the last few years in injury mismanagement, particularly returns from injury, it certainly puts more context around his seeming demotion this week.

 

Edited June 20, 20196 yr by Lord Nev

2 hours ago, Lord Nev said:

Sam Edmund reporting on SEN that Jake Lever is actually suffering from knee soreness not foot soreness.

This is good news considering our 'elite' performance managers history with feet.

Edited June 20, 20196 yr by Petraccattack

3 hours ago, Lord Nev said:

Sam Edmund reporting on SEN that Jake Lever is actually suffering from knee soreness not foot soreness.

So we played a player on QB who was already significantly underdone in his comeback from a serious knee injury, but who was also carrying a foot problem that may have caused him to change his running style, hence leading to this current knee soreness? Congratulations to the club on its never ending quest to achieve new levels of incompetence.

I'm guessing Lever was rushed back for the QB game because our deluded coach genuinely thought we were a chance for finals.

 

Edited June 20, 20196 yr by Bring-Back-Powell

Evidence that Lever was “rushed back”, please? I thought he had been in full training for months before he returned.

1 minute ago, Nasher said:

Evidence that Lever was “rushed back”, please? I thought he had been in full training for months before he returned.

not allowed to have "flare ups" in this industry... 

4 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Evidence that Lever was “rushed back”, please? I thought he had been in full training for months before he returned.

Well i was going off what May said on Fox Sports that he had hurt his foot before the QB clash.. 

Whatever the situation, i though 6 qtrs in the VFL wasn't enough.. you can train all you like but you need to get match fit and hardened and confident. 

2 minutes ago, Demon3 said:

Well i was going off what May said on Fox Sports that he had hurt his foot before the QB clash.. 

Whatever the situation, i though 6 qtrs in the VFL wasn't enough.. you can train all you like but you need to get match fit and hardened and confident. 

Isn’t the only way to get match fit to play footy games? 

I was concerned he might be underdone too but only from a touch/form/confidence perspective. As far as I can see there’s no evidence whatsoever that he wasn’t ready from an injury recovery point of view. People are flying off the handle without having the facts at hand, as usual.

4 hours ago, Lord Nev said:

Sam Edmund reporting on SEN that Jake Lever is actually suffering from knee soreness not foot soreness.

Probably ACL again. 

15 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Evidence that Lever was “rushed back”, please? I thought he had been in full training for months before he returned.

If he misses this week with soreness in the same knee that was rehabilitated after playing only 3/4s of a VFL game over 3 weeks that would be evidence in my opinion. Obviously the year out and the training period seemed patient enough, but then to be recalled to the much greater speed and impact of AFL level footy on such limited match play makes it seem like they rushed the final stage.

 Playing 90% game time would have had an impact also. Played less than that in total for the previous 3 weeks. The Frost concussion would have been part of that equation of course, but that seems a pretty clear picture to me.