Jaded No More

Why the hell did they fly him up to Alice? What possible benefit would two plane rides made to his hamstrings? The vision of him arguing with Selwyn today is really not great.

Well this is an incredibly poor look. Also that’s not a “trainer” channel 7, that’s our head of fitness 🙄

So you think that an incredibly fit and diligent footballer who is not old, and has no history of soft tissue injuries, should miss 50 days for a minor hamstring strain? Either the original diagnosis is wrong or the management is flawed. And if it’s neither of those things, then I am curious to know what it is.

If something else is going on then they need to tell us. These idiotic cryptic injury reports leave a lot to be desired when your best player is in question and your top 4 spot is on the line!

Something absolutely stinks. Two months for a minor hamstring strain. I don’t think so. And the longer the club doesn’t admit it was their poor management, the worse it looks for poor Clayton. Nothing has been the same since Burgess left.

Jeff White is still a mad Dee. 0 chance he doesn’t come to us under F/S if we want him.

Yeah I mean we can be concerned about his goal kicking, but this man was instrumental in winning us a flag two years ago. Let’s just calm our farm.

So true. The amount of times I’ve broken little toes and you think “who cares, what are these toes even for”, and you find out they are for walking and stuff 🤪

I’m just going by what has been said here and the fact that a navicular or lisfranc would require a much longer recovery than 7-8 weeks. I wonder where @Webber is. He probably knows more than us.

I take it you haven’t seen Schache play much senior footy.

Well thank god for that! I was prepared for the worst. Send him our best wishes! By the way, how close are you with Clayton’s mum? Can you tell her that I can no longer live without Clarry and he has to come back and play please? 😂

Kent Kingsley memorial trophy winner on many occasions.

So it’s NOT the dreaded navicular or lisfranc?

Not that the club's injury updates fill me with confidence.

They have gone to see a reiki healer to get rid of the bad juju around goals

If we don't finish top 4 that is a massive failure and deserves a serious review of the football department. Especially considering we've had an ok run with injuries so far.

OMFG these diagnosis are getting worse and worse. Navicular is 12 months is it not? How could he possibly play again this year if it's a navicular? I am going to wait for a real update before I hyperventilate. No doubt the club's injury report will be "foot - TBC"

Me too, but @WalkingCivilWar said it might not be season ending, which means it's definitely not career threatening. Although it might be the sort of injury that hampers him for a long time to come, especially if it's foot related, which we know is a persistent [censored].

They insert a plate for syndesmosis?

She’s already posted yesterday that he’s going for surgery today and it’s serious but potentially not season ending.

Expected this news to be honest

That would 1000% be season ending. So it doesn’t sound like it. Fingers crossed it’s nothing of that nature.

I really love what Hunter has brought to the team and he’s definitely been giving us a lot more than Langdon has. But of his 30 touches this weekend, I reckon 28 were kicks that went nowhere. He is not damaging like he was earlier in the year.

I don’t think JVR has the tank to cover the ground like Petty does right now. But I could be wrong. Either way, our forwardline is a [censored] show and has to be fixed before it ruins our whole season.

I think there is no argument to be made that Petty is a better player down back than Tomlinson. We all recognise that. However on team balance, Tomlinson can get the job done in the backline without robbing us of our defensive power IMO. But do we have someone who can play the role that TMac played in 2021 other than Petty? I think not. BB is not a Petty replacement. They are very different players. BB is a stay at home forward. He has neither the speed, nor the ground level agility nor the fitness to play the high forward role that we've been desperately missing since Tmac got injured. I would argue that BB need to play and Gawn has to not play forward, because a forward he ain't. JVR could play the Tmac role long term, but it's asking too much from him right at this moment. I think we can play all of JVR, BB and Petty forward, especially with Fritta injured and especially if we let go of the hope that Gawn becomes a goal kicking marking forward. You would play JVR is the Fritta role, because he is very competitive at ground level and is a good kick for goal. You play Petty in the Tmac role, to give us an actual marking target to kick to going inside 50, and you play BB deep for that "kick it long and deep and hope" play which will either result in a mark or will create a spillage to give our smalls a chance to crumb closer to goal, not 55m out on an 87 degree angle! For mine Smith is neither here nor there. He is more of a defensive medium forward. You could play him instead of Chandler or ANB realistically, but that won't happen. If they want to keep trying him then he can stay ahead of JVR for now.