You’d have to think Oliver is 2-3 weeks away but who’d know

MELBOURNE’S Clayton Oliver left the training track early on Wednesday due to further hamstring discomfort that he experienced during his pre-training testing.

The Demons’ GM of AFL Performance Alan Richardson provided an update on the midfielder.

“Clayton has a complex hamstring injury, due to the fact that the injury is located where the muscle attaches to the tendon, and to further complicate that, there is injury to two separate hamstring muscles,” Richardson said.

“There is no doubt that Clayton’s recovery has been complicated by the week he was required to spend immobile in hospital.

“What we have experienced so far is that Clayton can comfortably achieve 90 percent of his running capacity, but as we saw yesterday, he is unable to get to full speed to pass his minimum training markers. 

“This suggests that, due to the discomfort Clayton felt during his run throughs, further recovery time is required. At this stage, we expect this will be three to four weeks.

“The club will continue to explore all treatment options for Clayton, but as with all players, we won’t be taking any risks with his return to play timelines.”

 another 3-4 weeks out , filter filter filter

Edited July 6, 20231 yr by Satan

Wont be coming straight in, will he?

Oh good.

No Clarry for another month and no Fritsch until finals.

 

This sucks!

Three months for a hamstring injury. Yep, checks out.

Club has done well with communicating updates about the injury to a blood hungry and irrational media. Hopefully that shuts them up and stops the pointless and harmful speculation.

Hopefully the midfield can get by without him and maintain our hold on a top four spot. Viney has definitely stepped up in his absence.

On another note, is Damien Barrett the biggest turdlet on the planet? No need to answer folks, it’s a rhetorical question.

I’ve got a 5 month old baby who fires off less tish than him!

Our most important player come finals would need to be 110% for us to go all the way... not looking good.

As they say injuries to key players at the wrong time of year☹️

Clearly was tendon all along. 

2 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

Club has done well with communicating updates about the injury to a blood hungry and irrational media. Hopefully that shuts them up and stops the pointless and harmful speculation.

Hopefully the midfield can get by without him and maintain our hold on a top four spot. Viney has definitely stepped up in his absence.

Why didn't they communicate the complexity of the injury to begin with? Did they not know it was a tendon issue? 

Why let all this [censored] fester online and in the media and cause further hurt to Clarry? 

Also the mind boggles why we are now giving him 3-4 weeks to recover, instead of, you know, two months ago??

We have been warlocked jinxed by the injury curse! Thank god we took our chance in 21 with a fit list 

 

I'd much rather he take as long as he needs than rush him back.  In all honesty, him missing is far from the reason we've not been winning much.  The mids have done a great job in his absence, Viney has really taken the bull by the horns, Sparrow has stepped up, Tracc is having a great season all bar his kicking for goal, Brayshaw has played some good footy through the middle.  Together with our remarkable defence, they've been the reason we've been in a winning position in every game since he went out.  Now if we can just hit the scoreboard!

3 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

Clearly was tendon all along. 

& that’s exactly what I thought when I first saw the footage of him pulling it. You’re no chance to play within a couple weeks after pulling a string at that pace while thumping a footy… none!

Just now, Swooper1987 said:

I'd much rather he take as long as he needs than rush him back.  In all honesty, him missing is far from the reason we've not been winning much.  The mids have done a great job in his absence, Viney has really taken the bull by the horns, Sparrow has stepped up, Tracc is having a great season all bar his kicking for goal, Brayshaw has played some good footy through the middle.  Together with our remarkable defence, they've been the reason we've been in a winning position in every game since he went out.  Now if we can just hit the scoreboard!

100% Oliver coming in wouldn’t have changed our forward connection or scoring conversion.

Most teams can win without 1 of their stars. We have a team full of em.  No excuses. 

 

Just call it bad luck, we make do with what we have now. Facing a little bit of adversity, let’s see how we respond and come out of it.

15 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

100% Oliver coming in wouldn’t have changed our forward connection or scoring conversion.

Most teams can win without 1 of their stars. We have a team full of em.  No excuses. 

Whilst I agree there are no excuses, I disagree that Oliver coming in wouldn't have changed our forward connection.
He is our best star and the best hands i've ever seen. He doesn't fumble and he hits targets all the time with his hands. 

The way we play going forward of the ball has been very different without him, the way we move out of the center has been different. We haven't been spreading and hand balling out of the contests the same since he's been out.  

Since Oliver has been out Petracca has put the weight on his shoulder and has stopped hitting up forwards and started blasting it at goal.

Just now, FritschyBusiness said:

Whilst I agree there are no excuses, I disagree that Oliver coming in wouldn't have changed our forward connection.
He is our best star and the best hands i've ever seen. He doesn't fumble and he hits targets all the time with his hands. 

The way we play going forward of the ball has been very different without him, the way we move out of the center has been different. We haven't been spreading and hand balling out of the contests the same since he's been out.  

Since Oliver has been out Petracca has put the weight on his shoulder and has stopped hitting up forwards and started blasting it at goal.

The stats tell a different story. We should have beaten Geelong, GWS and Freo. The culprit was kicking accuracy. Trac is usually the player with the highest scoring involvements and he is still playing. 
 

We have Contested footy in all three of those games (I think) and outside the brain fart in the 4th at Kardinia we were dominant.
 

IMO the issue is our forward mix and confidence in set shot kicking. Gawn at FF is not working and the sooner the coaching staff realise this and change it, the better. We have to be more mobile and something like BB at FF, JVR, Smith,  Melksham, Kozzy and Chin are setup to do that. The solution however doesn’t stop there, the delivery is important and we have to honour short kicks into the 30-40m zone.

He’ll be cherry ripe for finals, shame we won’t be in them

The Curious case of Clarry Oliver.... just gets better (not ) 

Something  nqr about all this.  The gods are caning  us.

Some posters are blaming the fitness staff, but is it not possible that the medicos who did the initial scans got it wrong?

(Disclaimer: I know nothing about such things.)

51 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

We have been warlocked jinxed by the injury curse! Thank god we took our chance in 21 with a fit list 

 

 

That is a really salient point, that emotional posters either don't know, or choose to forget.

The injury list is THE biggest predictor of premiership success.

I also hope that all your follow up posts also take this into account... because all your previous certainly don't.