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3 hours ago, Demonland said:

 

I think everyone saw that one coming. 0 need to risk one of our most important players in round 2, especially given the mounting injury toll to our backline and having lost Salem for a third of the year. 
Rivers is a good replacement for Salem from a like for like opponent matchup perspective so at least that’s something. 

 

Here is a previously unreleased image of Jake Lever sustaining his plantar fascia injury.

Hope to see you back out there next week, Rick!

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On 3/23/2022 at 5:10 PM, Demonstone said:

Here is a previously unreleased image of Jake Lever sustaining his plantar fascia injury.

Hope to see you back out there next week, Rick!

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Absolute gold !!!


On 3/16/2022 at 10:46 PM, monoccular said:

And Jake Levers late withdrawal??

Read the website, papers or watch TV!!!  We are not your news service!!!

2 hours ago, 58er said:

Read the website, papers or watch TV!!!  We are not your news service!!!

You are responding to a 10 day old post.

 

So one of the ‘bros’ from the Deebrief podcast is saying that he is hearing whispers that Lever’s injury is much worse than reported.

Take of that blah blah blah.

5 hours ago, rpfc said:

So one of the ‘bros’ from the Deebrief podcast is saying that he is hearing whispers that Lever’s injury is much worse than reported.

Take of that blah blah blah.

I just came on here to post that I'd heard the same thing from someone who has a relatively good connection to the club.


But also why would you risk Lever or Hibbo in a round 3 game against a side that don’t have much of a forwardline either. 
 

I thought we were past playing cute little games with our injured players, but Petty, Lever and Hibberd are now all well outside the timeframes initially provided for their returns.

If Lever's injury is really that bad, just let us know and we'll move on.

32 minutes ago, poita said:

I thought we were past playing cute little games with our injured players, but Petty, Lever and Hibberd are now all well outside the timeframes initially provided for their returns.

If Lever's injury is really that bad, just let us know and we'll move on.

Why do we need to know?

 


7 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Why do we need to know?

 

BECAUSE!!!

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They are showing Hibbo and Lever one week, Petty 2 - 3 weeks and Salo 5 - 7 weeks and Turner 4 - 5. So could be closer than we thought.!!

Injury List

Kade Chandler

Quad | Test

Jake Lever

Foot | 1-2 weeks

Michael Hibberd

Calf | 2-4 weeks

Harry Petty

Calf | 2-3 Weeks

Daniel Turner

Foot | 4-6 Weeks

Christian Salem

Knee | 5-7 Weeks

Don't like the sound of Lever's foot. Wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be a 10-12 week injury.


I’m slightly concerned about the handling of our injuries compared to last yr. 
Salem came back to early, Riv looked proppy on the weekend and some of the current injuries Hibbo, Petty times keep getting pushed out. 
 

3 minutes ago, Vineytime said:

I’m slightly concerned about the handling of our injuries compared to last yr. 
Salem came back to early, Riv looked proppy on the weekend and some of the current injuries Hibbo, Petty times keep getting pushed out. 
 

Is the Salem injury related to his pre-season one? Or is it a completely new and unrelated problem? 

1 hour ago, Petracca said:

Injury List

Kade Chandler

Quad | Test

Jake Lever

Foot | 1-2 weeks

Michael Hibberd

Calf | 2-4 weeks

Harry Petty

Calf | 2-3 Weeks

Daniel Turner

Foot | 4-6 Weeks

Christian Salem

Knee | 5-7 Weeks

6 players, 5 defenders, 4 premiership players

Despite this our defence seems to be hanging in there.  Says a lot about depth. 

 

Sounds like Lever is still at least 2 weeks away as well:

“Jake is still experiencing a bit of swelling and pain in his foot. We thought he might be playing as early as this week, but that won’t be the case. It looks like he’ll need at least need another week, which is disappointing, but we don’t want to risk anything there.”


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