Injury Blue Healers Medical Room 2026

[Accidental genius]

Would be incredibly difficult/frustrating for players facing long term knee injuries.

not sure if just bad luck or something about ikon turf or lack of due care with high performance.

Regardless…it does seem like we get more compared to other clubs (?)

 

[GT619]

It's crazy to think he's only 22

 

[LFTWNG11]

My semi professional cricket playing cousin did his ACL walking down the stairs at home. It’s just bad luck

It’s not just bad luck. Sure it can happen due to bad luck but the pattern suggests it’s not just bad luck.

 

[JJBagger]

It’s not just bad luck. Sure it can happen due to bad luck but the pattern suggests it’s not just bad luck.

So out of a potential 405 players (45 roughly every pre season for 9 years), we have 6 ACL’s ruptured in pre seasons in that time - not counting Doc’s third one, as it was in game.

That’s a whopping 1.48% chance of doing your ACL in pre season. That’s hardly reliable data to suggest a trend

 

[LFTWNG11]

So out of a potential 405 players (45 roughly every pre season for 9 years), we have 6 ACL’s ruptured in pre seasons in that time - not counting Doc’s third one, as it was in game.

That’s a whopping 1.48% chance of doing your ACL in pre season. That’s hardly reliable data to suggest a trend

You obviously don’t work in statistics, haha.

Your first sentence proves my point.

This club needs to fix the high performance department.

 

[JJBagger]

You obviously don’t work in statistics, haha.

Your first sentence proves my point.

This club needs to fix the high performance department.

You know nothing about the inside of the club. How can you say that with any confidence?

 

[GT619]

It’s not just bad luck. Sure it can happen due to bad luck but the pattern suggests it’s not just bad luck.

Agreed too many now.

 

[Gw2_James]

This is not just bad luck, this has happened how many years in a row. I promise you, whatever the issue is that's causing these acl issues, will cause us to lose another player to an acl injury in next years pre season training, I'm literally willing to bet everything i own on it. This seriously has to be looked into, there is absolutely no way in hell that this is just bad luck, not year after year after year after year and so on.

 

[athensblue]

1 and 21 tell all curse
Doomed since then

 

[Moon]

Carlton's 2026 Injury list kicks off with an early season ending ACL for Motsy.
Hopefully our Stars and n00bs can all stay fit and ready to go in R1... or is that R0?

 

[Blue since 72]

It’s not just bad luck. Sure it can happen due to bad luck but the pattern suggests it’s not just bad luck.

There’s a pattern?

AFL would be bordering on the most demanding sport in the world for what the players put their legs through. Unless you’re jumping off a roof or the like (ie being a ****wit) it’s not a predictable injury.

The only thing you can control is the rehab.

 

[Aphrodite]

 

[gbatman]

My semi professional cricket playing cousin did his ACL walking down the stairs at home. It’s just bad luck

The amount of ACLs we have had in the last 5 years, particularly training, how many have to happen before maybe it's not all just bad luck?

It's just too many and I would think there are a lot of other clubs who don't appear to have as many as we do.

 

[goreds]

It’s not just bad luck. Sure it can happen due to bad luck but the pattern suggests it’s not just bad luck.

If its not bad luck, there is only 1 common denominator, Princes Park surface...

 

[JJBagger]

The amount of ACLs we have had in the last 5 years, particularly training, how many have to happen before maybe it's not all just bad luck?

It's just too many and I would think there are a lot of other clubs who don't appear to have as many as we do.

Unless I see how they’ve all been done, then it’s hard to suggest it’s anything other than just bad luck. Jagga was purely an accident, Doc has talked about how his 2nd one at least was just an awkward landing in a contest at training. I don’t think it’s that absurd to suggest it’s just bad luck. The lions lost like 4 blokes to torn ACL’s in 2024, it just happens

 

[Aphrodite]

ACL's since 2017 ...


across

 

[JimmyRabbit49]

ACL's since 2017 ...


across

Good thin Newman and C Curnow weren't ACL's or we would really be cursed

 

[Stamos]

ACL's since 2017 ...


across

Missing Cunners

 

[DangerousD]

So how does it compare to every other club?

 

[Blue since 72]

So averaging slightly less than one a year since 2017 ( which I think is the league average of .8 a year) and three of those were by the same guy.

Hardly an epidemic.

 

[DirtyLeeds]

Let the 'Family' postulate that there is a conspiracy to do with knee injuries at OUR club for the last twenty years, that this must be a League driven conspiracy, no doubt led by Collingwood Administration (of which we allowed Malthouse into the inner sanctum, and now Wright has the reigns), to keep our once proud club in the never ending doldrums...
Or it's sht1te luck. Go figure, and by the way have a gander at the other clubs.....

 

[Stamos]

So averaging slightly less than one a year since 2017 ( which I think is the league average of .8 a year) and three of those were by the same guy.

Hardly an epidemic.

10 in just over 8 years is not slightly less than 1 per year.
Although yes, 3 were Doc.

 

[Doro]

When was the last season we had a decent run with injuries? 2011 maybe? 2023 wasn't a disaster. Slim pickings though.

 

[Blue since 72]

10 in just over 8 years is not slightly less than 1 per year.
Although yes, 3 were Doc.

Pretty sure it’s 9 in 10 years from the thing Aphro posted above? First one was late 2017 and Mot’s was today/yesterday?

 

[Stamos]

Pretty sure it’s 9 in 10 years from the thing Aphro posted above? First one was late 2017 and Mot’s was today/yesterday?

10 in 8 years and 2 months