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6 hours ago, Kent said:
How long does it take for a syndesmosis injury to heal?
 
 
How long does syndesmosis take to heal? Syndesmosis injuries generally involve a period of immobilisation for 4-6 weeks depending on severity. (Yes that means a moon boot!) Following this we allow a further 6-12 weeks for a full recovery.20 Apr 2021
 
Not Good if true!!!!!😢

That’s only if surgery is required 

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2 hours ago, —coach— said:

As much as I love Max I think this in an opportunity. It was alluded to by someone from the Sydney camp before the game last week that they were setting their midfield up to shark Gawns taps. In effect assuming they would lose the tap and instead just clamp down on our mids, this seemed to play out at times with the limited room and space we had at stoppages. Add an extra around the ball which the oppo has done of late and it adds up the handball merry go round leading to a turnover we’ve been doing a lot of lately.

Perhaps now our mids can be the hunters rather than hunted and we can freshen up our approach to stoppages.

I am really looking forward to the upside surprise I think we will all get from Jackson having 80% ruck time 

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6 hours ago, Kent said:
How long does it take for a syndesmosis injury to heal?
 
 
How long does syndesmosis take to heal? Syndesmosis injuries generally involve a period of immobilisation for 4-6 weeks depending on severity. (Yes that means a moon boot!) Following this we allow a further 6-12 weeks for a full recovery.20 Apr 2021
 
Not Good if true!!!!!😢

Oh no ... 4 - 6 !!!

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6 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

Not sure why the 'yeah nah' then in response to me saying 'don't change the game plan'?

Nev, Jimmy is a former “high grade player” so apparently his insights are more valuable.

Needs to change the name to “Jimmy - high grade player” so we all give him the appropriate respect. 
 

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McInerney (204 cm 110kg, 47.8% hit out win and 8.2% to advantage)) is a decent ruck and Fort (204 cm 98kg 45.3% hit out win and 4.5% to advantage)not a bad back up.  Will be a massive test for Jackson (199cm 100kg 32.6% hit out win rate  2.1% to advantage).  I've not liked what I've seen from Jackson in ruck contests this season.  He needs to halve this if we are to have any chance.  

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8 minutes ago, Swooper1987 said:

McInerney (204 cm 110kg, 47.8% hit out win and 8.2% to advantage)) is a decent ruck and Fort (204 cm 98kg 45.3% hit out win and 4.5% to advantage)not a bad back up.  Will be a massive test for Jackson (199cm 100kg 32.6% hit out win rate  2.1% to advantage).  I've not liked what I've seen from Jackson in ruck contests this season.  He needs to halve this if we are to have any chance.  

Jacko has the leap and 2nd effort to compete well

Can he go for % time to be first ruck?

And what happens when he has a break???

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With this injury to Max plus the 3 consecutive losses and the stupid public scuffle between may and Melksham it is all come together to form a perfect mid-season storm over our bye weekend. For me, while I do not enjoy the situation, it will give us a clear insight into the quality of our coaching panel and the depth of our player leadership group.

Goodwin, Williams and Yze etc. have had a very good ride in the first half of the season on the back of the team not setting the world on fire but winning 10 in a row. Now is the time they have to earn their stripes. This will require a massive re-set of the playing group, afterall the next game is against Brisbane who I believe are a very strong contender for the flag this year. After the last 4 or so weeks it is a hard task to win that game.

Player leadership group will need to come up with a player response to the situation as well. No Gawn on the ground over the next two weeks and we will need the midfield leaders in particular to stand up and give direction to the team structures.

One area where we need leadership from both the players and coaches is in the forward 50. in the last few weeks we have had no structure in this area of the ground.

Hope the club uses the bye week well and come up with some answers.

 

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Tigers couldn't win without Rance.

Crows can't win without Modra.

Bulldogs can't win without Murphy.

O wait...

It is a lot harder for us, but not impossible. We are struggling, but not beaten yet.

 

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8 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Time to see how what we're made of.

Big job for Luke Jackson as he is now our number 1 ruckman. Could this be the making of him?

Does this mean Sam Weideman becomes the 2nd ruck? Majak Daw hasn't exactly had consistency of games in the VFL.

Would that also mean we have to play both M Brown and Weid...lord no!!

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1 hour ago, JimmyGadson said:

I'm not suggesting a game plan change, not sure how many times I need to say it.

 

Jimbob... the FD tinker every week... it's not an absolute... yet the punters on Demonland deal in absolutes...mostly.

What sort of tinkering are you suggesting, that perhaps the FD aren't putting into place?

*postscript... were you concerned in the first 10 rounds?

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3 hours ago, Lord Nev said:

I know you're not new to footy, so I'm sure I don't need to run you through why changing game plans halfway through a season is a bad idea, even more so purely because you have one injury that might impact for as little as 4 games.

We don't need to devise a different way to play, we need to stick to what we know and be better at it.

"Just be us". Remember that? Got us a flag last year, which you have been banging on about for ages and then forget after 3 weeks and go back to ranting.

Different personel need to be shuffled around to cover injuries and form. For the last 3 games we have lost in exactly the same fashion 

The Game Plan needs a re jig, for the run home

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Just now, Sir Why You Little said:

Different personel need to be shuffled around to cover injuries and form. For the last 3 games we have lost in exactly the same fashion 

The Game Plan needs a re jig, for the run home

Or does it??!

Maybe the coach has a reason not to panic, like the majority of his snow loving, fair weathered supporters? 

 

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3 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Different personel need to be shuffled around to cover injuries and form. For the last 3 games we have lost in exactly the same fashion 

The Game Plan needs a re jig, for the run home

Different personnel doesn't mean new game plan, in fact, I would argue it means quite the opposite.

Clearly we haven't executed the game plan well for most of the year, but it's safe to assume we haven't changed much about it since last year. So what parts of our premiership winning game plan do you suggest we change?

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9 hours ago, dl4e said:

I don't think there is any other option than the weed in for Max. For those calling on Majak have a serious think about the consequences. He is not in any way up to AFL standard.

Do you KNOW that or is it just what you want to think?  Others who watch VFL have other opinions. 

7 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Every team should have the same bye length 

this is really poor 

The fixture is just a total shambles but i am sure the AFL couldn’t give a stuff

The bye is a shambles and just to reinforce it Gil wants as his parting gesture to give us an odd number of teams, necessitating byes, just to make us appreciate how good it is now as compared to how it will be. 😡

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I live not far from casey and have regularly attended vfl footy and have watched Majak play " live " quite a few times. I will firmly hold to my opinions.

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9 minutes ago, 1964_2 said:

Or does it??!

Maybe the coach has a reason not to panic, like the majority of his snow loving, fair weathered supporters? 

 

I am not panicking. But to lose 3 times in a row the exact same way tells me the system is not working with the available personel

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