Delisted 15: Jayden Laverde - Delisted, will join GWS (likely as a rookie) - 21/9

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Unrestricted Free Agent 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 7, Nuggs Bunny

 

[The Prosecutor]

D_P_S Anything you want to confess to?

 

[eDPS]

D_P_S Anything you want to confess to?

Not sure what your on about mate, I'm really bummed out about this he is such a great kid and he was super keen to play Round 1 too it's bloody cruel

 

[The Prosecutor]

Not sure what your on about mate, I'm really bummed out about this he is such a great kid and he was super keen to play Round 1 too it's bloody cruel

Last I hear, you're introducing your prospective missus to Laverde and she's pretty blown away by the manchild.

Next thing you know, he's out for 12 weeks.

The timing is too close to be a coincidence...

 

[JayJ20]

Source? I can't seem to find that he is out for 12 weeks anywhere.

Makes sense though as if he requires surgery, then he'll be on crutches for at least 8 or so weeks. Then another 4 weeks to start walking properly.

I was really hoping that he would get a proper run this year
Still one of my favourite players coming through though. Hopefully his injuries don't hamper his career.

 

[Whispering_Jack]

Source? I can't seem to find that he is out for 12 weeks anywhere.

Makes sense though as if he requires surgery, then he'll be on crutches for at least 8 or so weeks. Then another 4 weeks to start walking properly.

I was really hoping that he would get a proper run this year
Still one of my favourite players coming through though. Hopefully his injuries don't hamper his career.

It's a good one. It will come out shortly.

 

[revival_mode]

sorry guys. i ****ing jinxed him.

 

[Gumby2Hurley]

as old mate jakey carlisle would say... ****

 

[JayJ20]

It's a good one. It will come out shortly.

And you're 100% sure about this?

Because I want you to be wrong. This is one of my favourites that we are talking about here.

 

[yaco55]

That could mean three on the LTI - Myers,Bellchambers and Laverde.

 

[PhoenixBonez]

That could mean three on the LTI - Myers,Bellchambers and Laverde.

Possibly Ridley and Laverde. Myers and Bellcho won't be.

 

[blitzer]

This is a bitter blow. I don't care too much about the short term regular injuries - your ordinary hamstrings, rolled ankles, minor calf injuries etc but these long term freak injuries like this one and Ridley's stress fractures in his back are real downers.

I'm beginning to wonder if Laverde will ever get a chance to realise his potential to be honest.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

This is a bitter blow. I don't care too much about the short term regular injuries - your ordinary hamstrings, rolled ankles, minor calf injuries etc but these long term freak injuries like this one and Ridley's stress fractures in his back are real downers.

I'm beginning to wonder if Laverde will ever get a chance to realise his potential to be honest.

Heading towards Gumby territory.

 

[TheFrenchCut]

After playing most weeks (at VFL then AFL level) in his debut year, Laverde was injured for half of last season, and will miss the first 10 rounds of this season.

We're overreacting lads.

 

[YEMOC NAYR]

Balls.. bloody wish Carlton didn't take Boekhurst.

We seem to be getting a lot of unlucky injuries. Never good when you get a few in preseason either, because it always rolls on into the season.

We wouldn't have taken Boekhurst anyway

 

[BrunoV]

I want a Senate enquiry into this. How many unlucky contact injuries can you get against the one club?

 

[eth-dog]

We wouldn't have taken Boekhurst anyway

Yep. I was hopeful that Goddard would have been taken if that were the case.

 

[carnthedons]

The process best be careful, that looks a good way to **** up a retinaculum

 

[Whispering_Jack]

And you're 100% sure about this?

Because I want you to be wrong. This is one of my favourites that we are talking about here.

I am

 

[Pweter]

 

[Paul_Barnard]

What a disaster of a JLT game....

 

[JayJ20]

His career isn't over yet guys. You guys are acting like he decapitated his foot. He is one that I am sure will make it if he gets a good run at it. It'll be only for the first 10-11 rounds. so he has plenty of time to prepare for finals... err... wait what?

On another note. Anyone else thinking to play him as our bull midfielder? I've been waiting so long for this to happen. With his injury, it could be a Hurley like situation whereby his ankle might not be able to handle the stress of playing as a forward.

I am

Ahh

I thought he was seeing a specialist first so we wouldn't know?

He'll be fine. He'll learn to be even more resilient by this. I'm still kind of insecure about him leaving since last year so I really wanted him to book a place in our best 22.

 

[yodellinhank]

I think I did one of these once. It was my first game as captain in the reserves, after a plague of captain's curse ran through the seconds and seen me promoted from my post as deputy vice-captain. With the game hanging in the balance just prior to halftime i wanted to do something inspirational, so as i gathered a loose ball in the centre of the ground i tried to maori side-step my way through the oncoming traffic. My foot got caught on the ground and was folded backwards underneath me as two blokes piled on top. I was helped from the ground and whilst i had it strapped in the break and managed a few hobbles around the boundary, i couldn't convince the coach to just stick me in a forward pocket. My day was done.

I might've missed a couple of weeks, I think there was a bye round in there somewhere, and was pretty keen on getting back. I'd been to the club endorsed physio who took my money in exchange for the sound advice of "Its your ankle, the bit that's sore. If you're in pain, stop doing whatever your doing" and i spent a good half hour every training running the ultra sound machine over it (do they still use those?), getting this weird light skin level massage and being told by the trainer I should wrap it in cabbage.

I slowly ramped up my training, went from jogging to running, to running around corners, to joining drills all over the space of I'd say around 4 weeks. The whole time I was advised not to kick a footy, the pain was when the foot extended back. Somehow I got picked again despite not even testing out whether I could in fact kick on my right foot. It just seems bizarre looking back on it, but in the pre game warm up doing 15-20m run throughs I tried kicking for the first time and it was like I had dropped a really heavy medicine ball on my foot. A shot of pain followed by pins and needles running up my leg, the ball dribbled off a metre or so from my foot and before I could inform anyone who hadn't already witnessed it was time for me to perform my acting-captain duties once more and call out "tails". In any event I was past the point of no return, so I went back to the huddle and mixed up a few Kennedy sayings with a few of Barrassi's and proceeded to play out the match kicking only on my left.

If Laverde's is like what I did, he should still be able to keep reasonably fit. I'd just advise the club to put him through some sort of fitness test that actually tests the thing that needs testing prior to putting him back on the park.

 

[daffo]

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[JayJ20]

I am

By the way, if you're 100% and it wasn't from a mate's mate's uncle's cousin's father's sister, then...

You're a Laverde :O
Of some sort... in some capacity...

Unless... you have something to do with Essendon...

Suspicious...

 

[bombreys]

Extremely concerning to be so injury-prone this early in his career.