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Harley Bennell Injury

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51 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Feel free to have your own opinion, as i have mine

we have a spot to lose if he doesn’t play

I value that...

Actually, if he’s given a contract and doesn’t play, he’s on the long term injury list (is he not?), in which case a rookie will be promoted to take his place. We do not lose a spot at all unless you were expecting all rookies to be promoted at some point during the year.

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    No point giving up until the list lodgement date. Maybe the surgery wasn't the panacea but his calves could still be adapting to the recovery from surgery and different dynamics without the plantaris.

    Personally still sticking with my uneducated belief that his running action and posture aren't ideal.

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    Someone reported of an appearance by a new player at training, forgot his name. I suppose there is no connection.....

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    10 minutes ago, willmoy said:

    Someone reported of an appearance by a new player at training, forgot his name. I suppose there is no connection.....

    We have two spots anyway don't we? One already empty and another made available due to the Nietschke injury?

     

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    44 minutes ago, hardtack said:

    Actually, if he’s given a contract and doesn’t play, he’s on the long term injury list (is he not?), in which case a rookie will be promoted to take his place. We do not lose a spot at all unless you were expecting all rookies to be promoted at some point during the year.

    Why give a contract to a player who is not going to play?

    We are such a “nice” Club

    Isn’t it better to find a young kid who is ready to go. 
    I have no problem with Harley, he is giving himself every chance, but soft tissue has a habit of repetition 

     

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    8 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Why give a contract to a player who is not going to play?

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    WHo could disagree with that.  But presumably the assumption behind hardtack's post is that there is a non-negligible chance that he will play.

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    7 minutes ago, sue said:

    WHo could disagree with that.  But presumably the assumption behind hardtack's post is that there is a non-negligible chance that he will play.

    Yes he might. But i very much doubt it, for reasons i have given above. 
     

    i am tired of supporting a retirement village for broken players, who were guns against us years before....

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    2 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    I did 10 years of Physio and numerous visits to hospital for surgery when i was a kid. I had my own rehab to deal with. 
     

    if he is popping a calf now whilst doing mild training compared to Matchday Conditions, i don’t think he is going to make it. We cannot afford to carry a blank spot into the season

    We need to win games, to regain some respect from last year 

    MFCSS has nothing to do with it, and i do not subscribe to such tripe anyway

    100% irrelevant. 

    The rest, hyperbole.

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    Just now, Sir Why You Little said:

    Yes he might. But i very much doubt it, for reasons i have given above. 
     

    i am tired of supporting a retirement village for broken players, who were guns against us years before....

    HB is in his prime and an extraordinary talent. He is nothing like we have drafted before.

    He is worth the risk.

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    7 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Why give a contract to a player who is not going to play?

    We are such a “nice” Club

    Isn’t it better to find a young kid who is ready to go. 
    I have no problem with Harley, he is giving himself every chance, but soft tissue has a habit of repetition 

     

    This was never going to a straight line to playing. You could keep him training and have a punt at him mid year if he gets going but then anyone else would get a shot at him first. It’s a base payment spend with our last spot on list for a player who pre injuries was on track to be a top 10 player in the league. If it is minor and would still see potential for him playing back half of the year then as long as his application and attitude has been top notch  I would take the punt on him over an untried kid with a low likelihood of success and definitely unlikely to get any shot in 2020. 

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    13 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Yes he might. But i very much doubt it, for reasons i have given above. 
     

    i am tired of supporting a retirement village for broken players, who were guns against us years before....

    I feel that it's a bit like buying a ticket in a lottery. The odds are small but the benefits if you win are enormous. Of course if the odds were as bad as tattslotto I'd be with you, but they are clearly much higher in this case and IMO worth a punt (so far).

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    25 minutes ago, Wrecker45 said:

    HB is in his prime and an extraordinary talent. He is nothing like we have drafted before.

    He is worth the risk.

    Your version of “prime” is a little different to mine. 

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    If Harley cant get back he will be the first to admit it. He is leaving no stone unturned to get it right, and I admire that. He is now under the direct care and instruction of our fitness team and he is doing everything that has been advised. I believe this "set back' is minor given his long road to date. Get behind him... he is a rare talent and, if he ever gets on the field, he will bring the kind of razzle dazzle that we have rarely witnessed since our Golden Era.

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    34 minutes ago, Mel Bourne said:

    Your version of “prime” is a little different to mine. 

    Age is a significant factor in my version. Not sure what you base yours on. Maybe horoscopes?

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    6 hours ago, Ron Burgundy said:

    Geez I hope this bloke makes it back.

    There’d be nothing greater than to see him sprinting off the wing following broken play, in a tightly contested Grand Final, enter the forward fifty, look for pass options, and then slot the winner from a tight angle in the final seconds of the game. Next stop, Hollywood.

    Short of that, I would love to see him as a regular in the red and the blue by round one next year.

    It’d have to be one of AFL’s great comeback stories.

     

    Such a romantic Ron.

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    1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Yes he might. But i very much doubt it, for reasons i have given above. 
     

    i am tired of supporting a retirement village for broken players, who were guns against us years before....

    But you're not tired of supporting a daycare centre for young players that will spend the majority of their short career in the vfl and will never be a gun for us in any afl match?

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    With the interest this guy draws, it would be great from the club to offer more insight into the journey, more regular updates, little clips etc. Involve the fans. Picture how NFL clubs do it with the interaction and transparency. Those little things can suck people into the club and raise membership numbers. Not just HB, they need to be better at it with everyone. How many people would click on a vid of inside Jackson's first couple months at the club, or a short doc on Jones going through his last pre season.

     

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    1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Why give a contract to a player who is not going to play?

    We are such a “nice” Club

    Isn’t it better to find a young kid who is ready to go. 
    I have no problem with Harley, he is giving himself every chance, but soft tissue has a habit of repetition 

     

    Huh? So let’s say no to Bennell and just go out and recruit a decent injury free young kid. One problem I see with this. The recruiting period is over. Now pray tell me, just who’s spot is he taking, particularly if he’s put on to the long term injury list to give him the best opportunity of playing again and to give a rookie a chance that he might otherwise not have got?

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    1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Yes he might. But i very much doubt it, for reasons i have given above. 
     

    i am tired of supporting a retirement village for broken players, who were guns against us years before....

    Ok, Vardy, Clark, Owen,Templeton, Mitch Clarke, Crosswell, that's over 40 years. Who else? 

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    If the club is throwing all the modern evidenced based treatment at this, Bennell is shot.  Finished.  Capput.

    Why?  

     

    Coz Freo tried it for 2 years.

     

     

    I can’t wait for the presser that says the club is now employing a psych to help his calf issues.  Come to think of it, most physios think they are psychologists anyway.  The top down approach.

     

    My guess is that the club is more concerned about his gluteals than his gastrocs.  The top down approach mark 2.

     

     

    Frosties calves are wagu beef BTW.

     

     

     

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    29 minutes ago, hardtack said:

    Huh? So let’s say no to Bennell and just go out and recruit a decent injury free young kid. One problem I see with this. The recruiting period is over. Now pray tell me, just who’s spot is he taking, particularly if he’s put on to the long term injury list to give him the best opportunity of playing again and to give a rookie a chance that he might otherwise not have got?

    HT lets put this to bed. SWYL has an opinion however Bennell will get a Rookie spot if we give him a contract.

    By definition Rookie spots are SPECULATIVE. I would suggest that the 6th rookie spot is not the list magic bullet that Bennell would be denying us.

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    I'd be surprised if he didn't have a number of setbacks. That's the nature of his injury.

    As long as he gets there in the end...

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    16 minutes ago, dee-tox said:

    I'd be surprised if he didn't have a number of setbacks. That's the nature of his injury.

    As long as he gets there in the end...

    How very dare you show logic and positivity!!!

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