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Injury List - Season 2019

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You don't hear many (if any) premiership sides say "we had a poor preseason that was interrupted by injuries and off season surgeries".

That is why I won't be livid if we miss the finals. Our preparation has been seriously compromised and I can't see how it won't cost us.

 

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    1 hour ago, BrisbaneDemon said:

     

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    shhh,  Micky.m  will start to gloat.

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    Now, I think I see ?

    Why May started off playing the Lever role as intercept role,  and why we went in with all 3 tall defenders. 

    I think we  'May'  have gambled, and lost.

    Could it be, that we brought him back in a weak or so early,  because of Hawkins ?

    ... and then go in one running player, short on.?  Mayb a case of whowoz available ?

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    35 minutes ago, DV8 said:

    Now, I think I see ?

    Why May started off playing the Lever role as intercept role,  and why we went in with all 3 tall defenders. 

    I think we  'May'  have gambled, and lost.

    Could it be, that we brought him back in a weak or so early,  because of Hawkins ?

    ... and then go in one running player, short on.?  Mayb a case of whowoz available ?

    A better question is:

    a) he initially went off complaining of what was obviously this issue.

    b) Why did he go back on?

     

    He will miss more than this week.

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    1 hour ago, TGR said:

    A better question is:

    a) he initially went off complaining of what was obviously this issue.

    b) Why did he go back on?

     

    He will miss more than this week.

    I think we went in with 3 tall defenders because the coaches have no faith in our ability for OMc or Frost to handle Hawkins, and others they might throw at us.

    I suspect they played May a bit too early, for this reason.  Hoping it would pay off and he would get thru OK.

    He was just coming back from the groin injury.

     

    They might have thought we are up against IT,  with the Cats, as it was... visa injuries and fitness to our senior players....   and that after the Cats game, then things get a tad easier,  for a few weeks.

    This might have led to them playing May, instead of giving him and extra week.  same could be said of KK.  Either way we went in underdone, with a host of players...  and many ran themselves into some match fitness,  at the least. 

    Some looked much better,  than they were the preceding match.

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    Just watched On the Couch, and Tommy Morris said that May came back “unfit” at the start of the pre-season and finished last in the time trials. I had heard he had a habit of doing that at the GC but didn’t realise it happened again with us. Was this mentioned on DL late last year/early this year?

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    5 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

    Just watched On the Couch, and Tommy Morris said that May came back “unfit” at the start of the pre-season and finished last in the time trials. I had heard he had a habit of doing that at the GC but didn’t realise it happened again with us. Was this mentioned on DL late last year/early this year?

    There was talk that he didn't come back in suitable condition. I think even May has admitted this on record also.

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    13 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

    Just watched On the Couch, and Tommy Morris said that May came back “unfit” at the start of the pre-season and finished last in the time trials. I had heard he had a habit of doing that at the GC but didn’t realise it happened again with us. Was this mentioned on DL late last year/early this year?

    IIRC there's a quote from May where he talks about our training standards being much higher than GC's.

    Edit: this is what I was thinking of, I think. https://wwos.nine.com.au/afl/hamstring-setback-for-new-demon-may/6d95c2aa-3659-4ee1-b1b9-9f8868c26544

    He doesn't say it but I think it's implied.

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    So far it’s not been a good start for May. At 27 he doesn’t have a decade of chances ahead of him. I understand that injuries can’t be helped, but keeping himself in top condition over pre season and not getting suspended for silly stuff is within his control. 

    Very disappointing. 

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    3 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    So far it’s not been a good start for May. At 27 he doesn’t have a decade of chances ahead of him. I understand that injuries can’t be helped, but keeping himself in top condition over pre season and not getting suspended for silly stuff is within his control. 

    Very disappointing. 

    unfortunately, like eddie mcguire with his disparaging comments of anyone and everyone he deems 'below' him, may is a recidivist when it comes to a) not being fit and b) getting suspended

    he's too small (height-wise) for modern forwards, many of who are lightning quick 200cm+ athletic freaks

    may is no better / no worse than chip frawley

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    13 hours ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

    unfortunately, like eddie mcguire with his disparaging comments of anyone and everyone he deems 'below' him, may is a recidivist when it comes to a) not being fit and b) getting suspended

    he's too small (height-wise) for modern forwards, many of who are lightning quick 200cm+ athletic freaks

    may is no better / no worse than chip frawley

    ... well, thank goodness we have a young 'Tom' petty coming through then.

     do we have to remove him from the mast-head, already.

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    13 hours ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

    unfortunately, like eddie mcguire with his disparaging comments of anyone and everyone he deems 'below' him, may is a recidivist when it comes to a) not being fit and b) getting suspended

    he's too small (height-wise) for modern forwards, many of who are lightning quick 200cm+ athletic freaks

    may is no better / no worse than chip frawley

    If that’s the case what was the point of getting him? And giving up so much in the process! I can see this turning to [censored] very quickly

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    4 minutes ago, bobby1554 said:

    If that’s the case what was the point of getting him? And giving up so much in the process! I can see this turning to [censored] very quickly

    It turns bad quickly based off one poster's opinions on a bloke who has been at the club for six months?  Really?

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    2 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

    It turns bad quickly based off one poster's opinions on a bloke who has been at the club for six months?  Really?

    Well right now I would rather still have Hogan or a top round draftee. I hope it turns out with May, but turning up to pre-season in sub standard knick, getting suspended for stupidity, and now soft tissue injuries (which could be attributed to his condition pre-season) doesn’t exactly instil me with a lot of confidence

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    Just now, bobby1554 said:

    Well right now I would rather still have Hogan or a top round draftee. I hope it turns out with May, but turning up to pre-season in sub standard knick, getting suspended for stupidity, and now soft tissue injuries (which could be attributed to his condition pre-season) doesn’t exactly instil me with a lot of confidence

    Like us being at 0-2, I'll wait for a larger sample size before I write off this trade.  We need to give some of these things a little more patience.

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    2 hours ago, bobby1554 said:

    Well right now I would rather still have Hogan or a top round draftee. I hope it turns out with May, but turning up to pre-season in sub standard knick, getting suspended for stupidity, and now soft tissue injuries (which could be attributed to his condition pre-season) doesn’t exactly instil me with a lot of confidence

    And I'd rather still have hair on the top of my head. There's not much use in wanting something that couldn't be kept. 

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    On Joel Smith:

     “Joel’s still settling down. He’s been progressing pretty well, but he hasn’t started running yet. We’ll probably give him another week or so before he does that, then he’ll need probably two to three weeks at least to reload, but again, his rehab plans and return to play plans are still a bit up in the air.”

    So assuming no further set backs that looks like a minimum of four weeks before he is even ready to resume full training. So say another 2-3 weeks of training and then you'd think he's come back via the VFL. Best case scenario is he's available for the seniors in rounds 10-11. That's with everything going well. Any hiccups and we may not see him until rounds 12-13 or later.  Great. Just great.

     

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