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15 minutes ago, Wrecker46 said:

I get what you are saying and what I wrote wasn't an exact science.

I just hope the players picked play their role.

I don't wish injury on anyone, even Collingwood.

 

do you want to reconsider that last bit?

 
3 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

 

Injury List

Christian Petracca

Calf | Available

Clayton Oliver

Face | Available

Bayley Fritsch

Knee | Available

Andy Moniz-Wakefield

Groin | Available

Charlie Spargo

Throat | Test

James Jordon

Foot | 2 Weeks

How did Spargo injured his throat? I have completely missed it..

 
4 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

How did Spargo injured his throat? I have completely missed it..

Tackle on McCartin 

1 minute ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Tackle on McCartin 

Copped an elbow to the throat.


Injury List: Semi Final

Christian Petracca - Calf | Available
Clayton Oliver - Face | Available
Bayley Fritsch - Knee | Available
Andy Moniz-Wakefield - Groin | Available
Charlie Spargo - Throat | Test
James Jordon - Foot | 2 Weeks

And reported in yesterday's The Age...Aaron vandenBerg is injured again.

He was apparently playing for Old Xavs and suffered what The Age called "a serious arm injury". Poor bloke still can't take a trick.

Not sure if it's paywalled, but it's buried a fair way down this story.

 

My brother was over at Maxy's place on monday. He mentioned how banged up the boys were come the Friday night. Obviously Trac's leg, Fritta's knee was no good & Max's groins were cooked.

He said he felt OK 1st Qtr, but as the game went on, they progressively got worse & worse (clearly noticeable by his performance thereafter).

He also said they really needed to win the QF to get the week off.

 


On 9/13/2022 at 9:47 PM, RedLegs23 said:

My brother was over at Maxy's place on monday. He mentioned how banged up the boys were come the Friday night. Obviously Trac's leg, Fritta's knee was no good & Max's groins were cooked.

He said he felt OK 1st Qtr, but as the game went on, they progressively got worse & worse (clearly noticeable by his performance thereafter).

He also said they really needed to win the QF to get the week off.

 

Shouldn't have taken injured players into the Lions game then.

Who's in for surgery?

9 hours ago, The Lobster Effect said:

Shouldn't have taken injured players into the Lions game then.

They wouldn't need to if they had given injured guys some time out in the second half of the season.

1 hour ago, Lucifers Hero said:

They wouldn't need to if they had given injured guys some time out in the second half of the season.

Loading and rest appear to be the mantra for the best outcomes.

We will be better prepared for a normal season of injuries in 2023 unlike 2021 when we were more than lucky.


Tmac has re-injured his foot. Wrap him in cotton wool and let’s hope he can still get a full pre-season in.

2 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Tmac has re-injured his foot. Wrap him in cotton wool and let’s hope he can still get a full pre-season in.

When did this happen?  He did get some sort of calf (?thigh) injury in the VFL PF. 

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2 minutes ago, monoccular said:

When did this happen?  He did get some sort of calf (?thigh) injury in the VFL PF. 

 

On 9/13/2022 at 9:47 PM, RedLegs23 said:

My brother was over at Maxy's place on monday. He mentioned how banged up the boys were come the Friday night. Obviously Trac's leg, Fritta's knee was no good & Max's groins were cooked.

He said he felt OK 1st Qtr, but as the game went on, they progressively got worse & worse (clearly noticeable by his performance thereafter).

He also said they really needed to win the QF to get the week off.

 

Bit of a worry given they had the week off between round 23 and the QF to rest up any lingering issues.


A close friend was at a 40th last Saturday which TMac attended. His foot got trodden on by a Brisbane player and he told her it was very sore Saturday night and was going for scans early in the week.. It was  6 month injury which they managed to get him back in 3 unfortunate that he got trodden on.

Typical of our luck this year

Poor Tmac. He won't be able to start his pre-season for a while now. 

 
7 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

They wouldn't need to if they had given injured guys some time out in the second half of the season.

100% this. Geelong rested players all year and are now cherry ripe to challenge for a flag. We hurried injured players back and played them underdone instead of giving them time to heal. When you have players like Dunstan and Chandler absolutely demolishing the VFL, surely you can give them a game at AFL level to fill in for underdone players that need to be fit come finals time. The club stuffed it this year.

Shame to hear TMac has re-injured his foot. That's probably also the result of rushing him back in 3 months when it is usually a 6 month recovery time for that type of injury. Hopefully he will still be able to get some preseason in and be ready for next season.

18 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

100% this. Geelong rested players all year and are now cherry ripe to challenge for a flag. We hurried injured players back and played them underdone instead of giving them time to heal. When you have players like Dunstan and Chandler absolutely demolishing the VFL, surely you can give them a game at AFL level to fill in for underdone players that need to be fit come finals time. The club stuffed it this year.

Shame to hear TMac has re-injured his foot. That's probably also the result of rushing him back in 3 months when it is usually a 6 month recovery time for that type of injury. Hopefully he will still be able to get some preseason in and be ready for next season.

Agree and I'm extremely suss on this "foot was trodden on" story.


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