Player Watch #16 Josh Smillie - Setback 6-10 Weeks Unfortunately

[Drunken Wookie]

Interesting

 

[wegetpumped]

So what is going on here? Has anyone seen him at training the last week and a bit? Has he progressed? Can he kick over a jam tin now?

Crickets….

Yeah, he was back and doing ok, even was going to play a praccy but coughed and they put him out for the rest of the season as a precautionary measure.

 

[Buddy Tambling]

Yze just said in SEN that Josh is still a few weeks away from full training LOL

 

[Tiger_4_Life]

Yze just said in SEN that Josh is still a few weeks away from full training LOL

We're better being cautious than throwing him out there and breaking him.

Should be aiming for a round 8-10 debut. Get him in the vfl round 4-6

 

[voorhees]

Yze just said in SEN that Josh is still a few weeks away from full training LOL

few weeks!
it's always flat news with young josh
cant wait till thats reversed

 

[el_simo]

Yze just said in SEN that Josh is still a few weeks away from full training LOL

He literally said that 3-4 weeks ago… I’m over the bullshit the club is trying to feed us

 

[biaseddustyfan]

back in the VFL in round 19

 

[blaisee]

We are rooted

 

[rfctigerarmy]

Richmond Injury List 2026
Josh Smillie - Growing Pains - Indefinite

 

[Grockadoc]

Yze just said in SEN that Josh is still a few weeks away from full training LOL

It's concerning that the club isn't being more transparent.

First it was after christmas, then beginning of February, and now it is after Round 1 starts.

The fact that Smillie has been on the last for close to 18 months now and is still having constant setbacks and return timeline delays is concerning.

We'll get GTA VI before we see Smillie at AFL at this rate...

 

[Rocco sifreddi]

It's concerning that the club isn't being more transparent.

First it was after christmas, then beginning of February, and now it is after Round 1 starts.

The fact that Smillie has been on the last for close to 18 months now and is still having constant setbacks and return timeline delays is concerning.

We'll get GTA VI before we see Smillie at AFL at this rate...

What exactly is his injury? Does anybody know?

 

[Grockadoc]

What exactly is his injury? Does anybody know?

Quad. Had surgery in November.

 

[Cherki]

From the Richmond website posted last year:

Absolute circus.

 

[Morro]

FWIW I don't buy the conspiracy theories that the club is hiding shit, please all the tin foil guys, tell me why the club wouldn't be honest?

 

[Grockadoc]

From the Richmond website posted last year:
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Absolute circus.

Yep. Timeline keeps blowing out. The alarm bells must be ringing at this point.

18 months in and he has played 4 VFL games.

 

[MadMaxfield95]

How has a kid that’s played 4 vfl games & missed most of last year still so far away from full training let alone a game. Another we’ve selected that clearly had body issues. I understand taking a punt on one or two with body issues but we punted on most that group!

 

[Grockadoc]

Funny how the one with the concussion concerns pre draft has been the fittest.

That and our last pick, Alger...

 

[Rocco sifreddi]

Alarm bells getting louder by the day
Questions have to be asked recruiting
Kids with junior injury issues, recruiting
Them becouse of their huge upside
Is a gamble that we are losing considerably
At the moment.

 

[tigs2010]

Alarm bells getting louder by the day
Questions have to be asked recruiting
Kids with junior injury issues, recruiting
Them becouse of their huge upside
Is a gamble that we are losing considerably
At the moment.

Smillie played every week...

 

[BillHickman]

If you look at the cohort of who is injured it is clear what is happening, Serpell is removing healthy tissue from the young blokes and transplanting it into the older blokes.

 

[Grockadoc]

If you look at the cohort of who is injured it is clear what is happening, Serpell is removing healthy tissue from the young blokes and transplanting it into the older blokes.

Lynch and Hopper having their least interrupted preseasons with us...

 

[prodigy]

I will not panic.
I will not panic.
I will not panic.
I will not panic.
I will not panic.
I will not panic.

 

[Lord of the Wings]

Yze just said in SEN that Josh is still a few weeks away from full training LOL

Serpell hasn't finished him off just yet. Thats coming though

 

[Lord of the Wings]

Smillie played every week...

Hotton (ACL), Faull (Back stress fracture), Lalor (Hammy tendon), Sims (elbow), Trainor (concussion), Alger (broken finger) & Cummings (Shoulder) all had serious injuries' in their last year of junior footy. Pretty obvious Blair ****ed up by ignoring their injury history.

 

[SunshineBoy]

FWIW I don't buy the conspiracy theories that the club is hiding shit, please all the tin foil guys, tell me why the club wouldn't be honest?

And yet the tin foil guys are being proven right again and again and again beema limapep