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17 hours ago, Demon Dynasty said:

Any sign of Harmes returning?  Track watchers?  Kev??

Playing VFL this weekend

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    Injury List: Round 6

    Ben Brown - Back  | Test
    Max Gawn - Knee  | Test
    Michael Hibberd - Achilles | Test
    Jake Lever - Ankle  | Test
    Charlie Spargo - Concussion | TBC
    Kye Turner - Groin | TBC
    Joel Smith - Thumb | 1 Week
    Christian Salem - Knee | 2 - 4 Weeks
    Will Verrall - Pelvis  | 8 - 9 Weeks

    Pretty good apart from Will’s pelvis which is starting to look very much like a long term injury because it’s improving at only a very slow rate.

    Source: Injury Report | Four Demons eye return

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    31 minutes ago, Chelly said:

    Injury List: Round 6

    Ben Brown - Back  | Test
    Max Gawn - Knee  | Test
    Michael Hibberd - Achilles | Test
    Jake Lever - Ankle  | Test
    Charlie Spargo - Concussion | TBC
    Kye Turner - Groin | TBC
    Joel Smith - Thumb | 1 Week
    Christian Salem - Knee | 2 - 4 Weeks
    Will Verrall - Pelvis  | 8 - 9 Weeks

    Pretty good apart from Will’s pelvis which is starting to look very much like a long term injury because it’s improving at only a very slow rate.

    Source: Injury Report | Four Demons eye return

    Agree Chelly looks like Will Verral will struggle to get on the park this year and that’s a shame for any young player trying to make an impression.!!!

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    Haven't read the thread and it might have already been said but how blessed were we for our lack of injuries in 2021?

    Hardly any sort of injury to any of our best 25-26 players.  At the time many of us thought that could not happen again and sure enough, we've had a lot of injuries since the GF win.  As well as those players who are obviously carrying some sort of niggle/injury (last year more so)

    But premiership teams often have a great run with injury and in fact, I can't recall a premiership team having many of their best players miss a raft of games on their way to the flag

    It's probably happened maybe once or twice but I can't recall an instance

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    On 4/4/2023 at 5:50 PM, Bates Mate said:

    Joel Smith manages to find so many different ways to end up on the injury list. I feel for him. But injury prone has never had a better example

    Agree 100%. Different matter entirely but I have seen glimpses at times to indicate he could be a quality player

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    If Verrall is out for the year...and I don't see why you would hurry him back for the last few games, does anyone know how that impacts Melbourne's capacity re mid season draft ? 

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    1 hour ago, Bystander said:

    If Verrall is out for the year...and I don't see why you would hurry him back for the last few games, does anyone know how that impacts Melbourne's capacity re mid season draft ? 

    Doesn't Verrall have a history of hip/pelvis problems?

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    13 hours ago, Macca said:

    Haven't read the thread and it might have already been said but how blessed were we for our lack of injuries in 2021?

    Hardly any sort of injury to any of our best 25-26 players.  At the time many of us thought that could not happen again and sure enough, we've had a lot of injuries since the GF win.  As well as those players who are obviously carrying some sort of niggle/injury (last year more so)

    But premiership teams often have a great run with injury and in fact, I can't recall a premiership team having many of their best players miss a raft of games on their way to the flag

    It's probably happened maybe once or twice but I can't recall an instance

    Agree. I think the Dogs had a fair whack of injuries late in 2016 and Richmond opened 2019 with injuries galore, but by and large premiers are healthy more often than not.

    So far this year we have used 29 players, which is tied for 8th-most in the competition. It's not entirely coincidental that St Kilda, Sydney and Essendon are in the top 3 for fewest players used.

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    29 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    Agree. I think the Dogs had a fair whack of injuries late in 2016 and Richmond opened 2019 with injuries galore, but by and large premiers are healthy more often than not.

    So far this year we have used 29 players, which is tied for 8th-most in the competition. It's not entirely coincidental that St Kilda, Sydney and Essendon are in the top 3 for fewest players used.

    Hopefully we will see the fruits of this towards the end of the year. 

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    11 hours ago, Bystander said:

    If Verrall is out for the year...and I don't see why you would hurry him back for the last few games, does anyone know how that impacts Melbourne's capacity re mid season draft ? 

    LTI list?  What does this allow in 2023?

    9 hours ago, Nelo said:

    Doesn't Verrall have a history of hip/pelvis problems?

    Nelo - certainly does this year.  No idea if any priors.  

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    22 minutes ago, monoccular said:

    LTI list?  What does this allow in 2023?

    Nelo - certainly does this year.  No idea if any priors.  

     

    Just on the whole pelvic bone injury, surgery and recovery. Poor bugger. Would that mean no banging until 100% better?

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    13 hours ago, Demonland said:

     

    So what ever Burgess did for us in 2021 he is now doing for Adelaide apparently

    Not only superfit but injury free  We are not managing injuries well enough in my opinion 

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    2 hours ago, Kent said:

    So what ever Burgess did for us in 2021 he is now doing for Adelaide apparently

    Not only superfit but injury free  We are not managing injuries well enough in my opinion 

    I think a lot of our injuries are accidental ones. For example, what could be done about Gawn? Or Lever rolling an ankle for the 100th time?

    Hibbo and May were the only two injuries which were soft tissue related. But both of these guys are old, so it is to be expected.

    We have had a lot of 'contact' injuries that can't be avoided, especially when we train with such intensity. Sometimes it is just down to luck. 

    Edited by Jaded No More

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    10 hours ago, Wizard of Koz said:

     

    Just on the whole pelvic bone injury, surgery and recovery. Poor bugger. Would that mean no banging until 100% better?

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    5 hours ago, Kent said:

    So what ever Burgess did for us in 2021 he is now doing for Adelaide apparently

    Not only superfit but injury free  We are not managing injuries well enough in my opinion 

    Care to identify the things you think we're not doing "well enough"?

    Our injury situation isn't perfect but it's nowhere near as bad as a number of other clubs (West Coast, St Kilda, Richmond, Carlton and Sydney all immediately come to mind and I haven't even thought about it for all that long).

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    22 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

    Agree. I think the Dogs had a fair whack of injuries late in 2016 and Richmond opened 2019 with injuries galore, but by and large premiers are healthy more often than not.

    So far this year we have used 29 players, which is tied for 8th-most in the competition. It's not entirely coincidental that St Kilda, Sydney and Essendon are in the top 3 for fewest players used.

    The doggies lost their heart and soul captain in Rob Murphy mid year to an ACL and then Mitch Wallace who at thr time was playing some exceptional football as an inside midfielder.

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    2 minutes ago, Wizard of Koz said:

    Fairly self explanatory question I would have thought?

    Not something you'd read on a footy forum every day but sharing is caring.

    A difficult road to recovery I imagine. 

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    Injury List: Round 7 

    Kye Turner - Groin | test
    Joel Smith - Thumb | test

    Charlie Spargo - Concussion | 1 Week 
    Harrison Petty - concussion- 1-2 Weeks
    Christian Salem - Knee | 2 - 3 Weeks 
    Will Verrall - Pelvis  | 7-8 Weeks

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    On 4/27/2023 at 10:15 PM, FireInTheBennelly said:

    Anyone know when and how Petty was concussed?

    Petty collided with teammate Tom Sparrow in the final minutes of Monday night’s Anzac Day Eve game.

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