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If you want excuses for our injuries look at our new fitness coach. A caller on SEN mentioned last year he had a trail of soft tissue injuries following him. Ask a few Hawthorn supporters close to the club what they think and they will say we didn't do our homework and they might say some of their players were unimpressed. Why have we bulked up in 2006 only to slim down looking for more speed in 2007. Seems strange when we said we were too light in 2005. Ok some injuries are not soft tissue and that is just bad luck. Maybe it all comes down to conditioning though.

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If you want excuses for our injuries look at our new fitness coach. A caller on SEN mentioned last year he had a trail of soft tissue injuries following him. Ask a few Hawthorn supporters close to the club what they think and they will say we didn't do our homework and they might say some of their players were unimpressed. Why have we bulked up in 2006 only to slim down looking for more speed in 2007. Seems strange when we said we were too light in 2005. Ok some injuries are not soft tissue and that is just bad luck. Maybe it all comes down to conditioning though.

I have to admit I really know very little about the subject, but you have to concede it is odd that the year we appoint this bloke we instantly have the worst run of injury I have ever seen at the club

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MELBOURNEfc Injury List

David Neitz - Knee - Test

Russell Robertson - Knee - 5 weeks

Clint Bartram - Knee - 5-7 weeks

Brock McLean - Foot - 2-3 weeks

James Frawley - Foot - 2 weeks

Brent Moloney - Groin - Test

Travis Johnstone - Hamstring - Test

Matthew Whelan - Hamstring - 2-3 weeks

Daniel Bell - Concussion - Test

Paul Wheatley - Shoulder - Test

Nathan Jones - Ankle - 2-3 weeks

Nathan Brown - Calf - Test

Jared Rivers - Hamstring - Test

Of these injuries only five are soft tissue related.

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Thats still on the high side...

My point is that if you take away the other eight non-soft tissue injuries then the list looks a lot better.

Furthermore, Moloney has suffered from OP for a long time and Whelan has a history of soft tissue related injuries.

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Thats still on the high side...

Moloney, Brown and Whelan have a history with these sorts of injuries. Don't really think we can blame the fitness guy for that.

The reason we have so many injuries is simple, we've had a truckload of bad luck delivered to the club at Round 1. That's it.

Every club has years where they are decimated by injuries. Look at Brisbane last year.

It's unfortunate that this, a year where we planned on making a real challenge, is also the year we've been dealt a huge injury blow.

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Supposedly green (hamstring) and sylvia (knee) have niggles as well and could miss

source:http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,21617139-23211,00.html

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Supposedly green (hamstring) and sylvia (knee) have niggles as well and could miss

source:http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,21617139-23211,00.html

I wonder what the next Sylvia injury-excuse will be.

Knee? Please. The guy can't play two consecutive games because of his groin. It's so incredibly depressing! :(


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This is getting really tiring. THe number of threads on BB and the spate of injuries is ridiculous and all are completely unfounded.

The injury list is full of collision sort of injuries. If you want to see a lot of soft tissue injuries then look at st kilda.

We have more broken bones than i can remember. Another is a corked calf (brown - nothing to do with the fitness regime), and another 2 are reoccuring injuries (moloney and sylvia). whelan wouldn't even have played on the weekend had we had more than 10 fit people on the list to choose from. So therefore there are 3 soft tissue injuries with no cause that could potentially be attributed to conditioning, this is not a high number at all.

On another note what is this about green? why haven't we heard this already?

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Agree Classy Dee.....and Browns injury is probably a corkie....another collision injury.

It is also amazing how TJ is now supposed to have a hamstring problem, right after he had x-rays for a broken hand.

Whelan is another that I would question as he left the field after bumping Sandilands and came off second best.

Opposition players can't target a hamstring but they can "test out" a shoulder or hand if they know about it.....

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If you want excuses for our injuries look at our new fitness coach. A caller on SEN mentioned last year he had a trail of soft tissue injuries following him. Ask a few Hawthorn supporters close to the club what they think and they will say we didn't do our homework and they might say some of their players were unimpressed. Why have we bulked up in 2006 only to slim down looking for more speed in 2007. Seems strange when we said we were too light in 2005. Ok some injuries are not soft tissue and that is just bad luck. Maybe it all comes down to conditioning though.

have a read of the forum before you post a new thread. honestly this is the 4th topic on the same point within 3 weeks. don't you read anything?

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Supposedly green (hamstring) and sylvia (knee) have niggles as well and could miss

source:http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,21617139-23211,00.html

If that's true, then we are royally screwed. Out of our 10/11 most important players, that's the following out;

Neitz

Robertson

Mclean

Johnstone

Rivers

Green

Whelan

With only these remaining, and not exactly in super form.

White

Bruce

Davey

Carroll

It's no wonder we're winless. Take 7 of any teams 10/11 most important players out and they would be winless too. Even West Coast.

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I have to admit I really know very little about the subject, but you have to concede it is odd that the year we appoint this bloke we instantly have the worst run of injury I have ever seen at the club

To add further misery check out this in The Australian today not only are Green (Hammy) and Sylvia (knee) in doubt Gardner will not take these losses into account when assessing Daniher's future. At least Neale will be comforted by that.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...5012432,00.html

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