Injuries 2019

[Carson Dial]

Not to sound too defeatist but there's still another half of the year to go so sadly no chance of this happening

Right now I'm thinking about the people who wanted Sandi to retire mid-season, thank **** the big fella is on his way back in the not-too-distant future.

Whats the timeframe for Sandi’s return?

 

[wild side]

Ballas said he was half way thru a running program. It was a six week program, and that was after the Collingwood win, so hopefully 2 weeks away from training with the main group.

 

[Mr Fonebone]

Stick Lobb in cotton wool for the season..we are not contending this year, even if we make the 8.

 

[Righteo]

Whats the timeframe for Sandi’s return?

not too sure, since the club has been cagey when it comes to releasing timeframe for him (which is fine) but as far as i know he's been back on the track for about a month now and moving quite well.. hopefully someone else can provide a better answer.

 

[kingswood71]

i blame ross lyon for this injury all that rucking lobb had to do was unnecessary should have just backed in darcy

But then you would have blamed Ross if he brought Darcy in and he was injured... "Shouldnt have brought him back so early"

 

[westy1]

we had a great run with injuries 2012-2015.

Pav , Sandi, Mj, and Luke McPharlin all missed big blocks of footy in ‘13
Ibbo missed the Gf , possibly cost us a flag

 

[blue shark]

Break the glass and play Jones, that's what he is here for. Cox, Logue become very important.

 

[tonygeeks]

Yes Richmond have had a tough year with injuries, but Freo now have a similar number of injuries to our B22 as Richmond.
(ie. Richmond: Rance, Riewoldt, Nankervis, Lambert, Ellis, Astbury, Short & Freo: A.Pearce, Sandilands, Taberner, Lobb, S.Hill)

The difference is, Richmond are not a team in rebuild. They have depth and are still playing 10 to 13 players each and every week who have played 50+ games for Richmond ... meanwhile Freo have 5 to 7 players (the lowest average in the AFL). The other big difference is the AFL media will continually make excuses and offer sympathy to Richmond, while we will hear crickets regarding Freo.

Really ? I thought the biggest difference would have been Lobb and Pearce haven't even missed 1 game yet but here you are rolling out the excuses trying to bubble wrap your hero

 

[LeftFootBanana]

i blame ross lyon for this injury all that rucking lobb had to do was unnecessary should have just backed in darcy

If Ross had given everyone a foot massage after every game and training session this wouldn't have happened.

 

[Dockers v Channel7West]

Surface definitely a factor. Too many injuries to be a coincidence.

Need to also consider what boots the players are wearing, is there enough padding in the boots?

Would like to think the club has a Podiatrist on the payroll the right boots and orthotic / cushioned inserts can go a long way to preventing foot injuries
Especially with the dubious Optus surface

 

[Purple Jesus]

we had a great run with injuries 2012-2015.

What? No we didn’t.

 

[StingBitten]

What? No we didn’t.

Started researching the injury stats for these 4 years, then realized I didn't need to convince anyone otherwise.

 

[Deveraux]

i blame ross lyon for this injury all that rucking lobb had to do was unnecessary should have just backed in darcy

Oh my, this is so rediculous that I thought you were being sarcastic... then I realise you are serious... really? You are pathetic

 

[Square Peg]

Losing Pearce is still a much bigger loss than Lobb. Sure he's played well the last two weeks but losing him is not season defining, he is not an A grade ruck. Darcy just needs to pull his finger out.
Hard to believe that a little over a week ago I thought our S&C team had finally turned it around. To paraphrase John Howard we've had five minutes of injury sunshine at this club, now it's raining again.

 

[salim malik]

Oh my, this is so rediculous that I thought you were being sarcastic... then I realise you are serious... really? You are pathetic

Considering Darcy has been out with an ankle injury it makes it even more ridiculous.

 

[poshman]

Oh my, this is so ridiculous that I thought you were being sarcastic... then I realise you are serious... really? You are pathetic

That poster is a clear troll - just continued agenda driven stupidity.

 

[332docker]

Considering Darcy has been out with an ankle injury it makes it even more ridiculous.

his ankle injury was just bad luck. was going for a mark in the middle of the ground playing for peel and very innocuous

 

[Sweetback]

Anyone know what Elliot Yeo’s injury was?

 

[Taylor]

Pav , Sandi, Mj, and Luke McPharlin all missed big blocks of footy in ‘13
Ibbo missed the Gf , possibly cost us a flag

Kepler might have been useful instead of Clarke. He also did his acl.

 

[yakka man]

God damn. Lobb has been massive for us.

 

[Frigate]

Lobb was rucking at GWS, he would have been rucking at Gold Coast. He has not been injury prone in the past, so blaming Ross or the medical staff by playing a tall in the ruck seems crazy to me.

It is such a shame, but this blame game to me is just nonsensical. This injury is probably the one that will derail our season, if Alex Pearce alone was not enough. Why? Because we are just a team trying to get back in the 8, and with that we need a lot of things to go right.

Rory Lobb and a foot, well we have Hogan back out there and he had a similar thing going on I think - guess what - his was not injured due to Freo Medical staff or Optus Oval. I am NOT individualising any recent comments here or having a go at anyone - it is a fact that there has been a lot of conjecture and discussion regarding grounds and our medical staff. Any recent comments in this thread are valid and are worth discussion IMO.

It will be interesting what happens now. From an over supply of talls we are now stretched. It will certainly call for some changes the way we play. Hopefully the news on Lobbe is that he can make it back and we can win enough to play finals.

I am not throwing in the towel, we have an interesting time coming up with Hill and Bennell to come back. They might bring Hogan into form.

 

[Allikat]

I guess if we dropped all of our players instead of letting them play football,they'd all get injured less?

 

[Scham]

Making more changes and rotating players through the side like other teams do makes sense.

 

[Taylor]

Successful teams don't play too many in a year

 

[Scham]

Successful teams don't play too many in a year

Of course. The lists are only so big. I was talking about rotating players through or in and out. It’d be interesting to see the stats of how many unforced changes teams have made this year.