Willo_
Trust the Process
- Apr 27, 2010
- 35,238
- 62,328
- AFL Club
- Geelong
- Other Teams
- 76ers, Melbourne Roys
We had an awful run with the sheer volume of injuries we had, particuarly later in the year..and it challenged our depth at timeI don't think we had a bad run with injuries at all this year. Fourteen absolutely core players (i.e. pretty much selected when fit) - Selwood, Dangerfield, Hawkins, Duncan, Taylor, Lonergan, Mackie, Motlop, Henderson, Smith, Guthrie, Menegola, Tuohy, and Blicavs - all played 20 or more games in 2017. Three more - Menzel, Bews, and Kolodjashnij - played 19, 19, and 18. That doesn't look like a bad injury run to me.
But we were fortunate that the bulk of our core played all year