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46 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Assume they are just guesstimating like I did a few minutes ago when I updated the injury list on Demonland.

ย  PLAYER INJURY LENGTH
OLIVER Clayton.png Clayton Oliver Hamstring Test
MCDONALD Tom.png Tom McDonald Ankle 1 Week
TURNER Kye.png Kye Turner Groin 1 Week
FRITSCH Bayley.png Bayley Fritsch Foot 2-3 Weeks
TURNER Daniel.png Daniel Turner Hand 2-3 Weeks
PETTY Harrison.png Harrison Petty Foot TBC
HOWES Blake.png Blake Howes Hand Season
SESTAN Oliver.png Oliver Sestan Elbow Season

Petty is a big loss as he was finding his rhythm, but thatโ€™s afl footy, we should have back Oliver , t Mac , Fritsch available by finals time. Though not sure would they need game time @ Casey?

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Communication from the club re: injuries this season has been putridย 

Except for when Gawn went down and the internet went into meltdown and we got an update on a Sunday.ย 

38 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

all that just "from the vision"?ย  ย sheez some of these guys can sure spin things

I'd be very surprised if he played again this year. I'd be surprised and relieved if he was good to go at theย start ofย  preseason.


None of us gave a $hite when Turner went down.... we don't 'deserve' to have the knowledge considering its personal information.

It's quite the entitled stance.

We seem to have 'finally' nicely gone along the 7 stages of grieving re: communicating Clayton's injury... it'd be nice for supporters to manage themselves for any other injury going forward.

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Whilst we wait for news on Harrison Petty here are some injury numbers.

Games lost to injury 2023

1. West Coast 263
2. Richmond 178
3. St Kilda 174
3. GWS Giants 174
5. Essendon 173
6. Carlton 158
7. Sydney 152
8. Geelong 146
9. Western Bulldogs 139
10. North Melbourne 136
11. Collingwood 113
12. Melbourne 107
13. Fremantle 100
14. Brisbane Lions 95
15. Hawthorn 94
16. Port Adelaide 92
17. Adelaide 84
18. Gold Coast 64

Games to lost to best 22

1. West Coast 195
2. Sydney 109
3. Essendon 100
4. Carlton 98
5. Richmond 96
6. GWS Giants 94
7. Geelong 92
8. St Kilda 90
9. Western Bulldogsย  78
10. Fremantle 77
11. Collingwood 63
11. North Melbourne 63
13. Gold Coast 60
14. Brisbane Lions 59
15. Melbourne 57
16. Hawthorn 54
17. Port Adelaide 51
18. Adelaide 42
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8 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

None of us gave a $hite when Turner went down.... we don't 'deserve' to know.

It's quite the entitled stance.

We seem to have 'finally' nicely gone along the 7 stages of grieving re: communicating Clayton's injury... I suggest we do the same to anyone else going forward.

I was only aware of 5 stages ๐Ÿ˜‰maybe waiting ..and then anticipating the worst see the other two?ย 


Probably hasn't been expressed enough but I'm really feeling for Harry. He works incredibly hard at both ends of the ground and this would be really frustrating for him right now.

Richo saying season over on C7ย 


I'd be happy for the club to keep things under wrap as far as possible if there is any chance of him playing this year. Our competitors would have more to think about if they don't know who may be in the team in the finals.

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Please never play that dump of a ground ever again ๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก


So I missed this bit on 7 News. Did Richo actually say "season over", because if not, he's still in the frame, and it would be logical management to keep the press off our backs and Petty's if we simply said it was a bad injury.

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4 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

None of us gave a $hite when Turner went down.... we don't 'deserve' to have the knowledge considering its personal information.

It's quite the entitled stance.

We seem to have 'finally' nicely gone along the 7 stages of grieving re: communicating Clayton's injury... it'd be nice for supporters to manage themselves for any other injury going forward.

Are you equating turner to petty. Petty is pivotal to our flag chances. Supporters are on tensor hooksย 


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