Injury Blue Healers Medical Room 2026

[Aphrodite]

Latest Injury Update 7th April …

AFL injury news: Weitering update, news on two more

Updates on Jacob Weitering, Cooper Lord and Zac Williams.

www.carltonfc.com.au

UPDATES on three Blues leading into Gather Round.

* Zac Williams trained fully this week and is available for selection.

Jacob Weitering (concussion)

• Modified program
• Availability: Round 6
• Entered concussion protocols following Friday’s game and will be unavailable for AFL selection this week.

Cooper Lord (illness)

• Full training
• Availability: Round 6
• Had returned to full training and is expected to be available to play next week

 

[Bletch]

Latest Injury Update stickied

Spreadsheet bit updated (see bottom of sticky post).

Also, added a feature or two to the spreadsheet - including fixture/results. So it's a bit more than just injury tracking now.

 

[Opium]

Why couldn’t our injury list look like this just once over the last 10 years.

And we're still losing. What difference is it making

 

[RPCB]

And we're still losing. What difference is it making

None.

 

[Bamboo Harvester]

So Zac Williams is fine? Went off like he was shot

A game isn't complete without Zaccy going off with a life threatening injury..

 

[juzza316]

A game isn't complete without Zaccy going off with a life threatening injury..

It always seems to be when the opposition get a run on and then he goes down like he’s shot.

 

[ferrisb]

No mention of Dean's shoulder? Wasn't the greatest of landings...

Admittedly I think he was clutching his head rather than shoulder when he walked off IIRC.

 

[The Bighouse]

No mention of Dean's shoulder? Wasn't the greatest of landings...

Admittedly I think he was clutching his head rather than shoulder when he walked off IIRC.

Concussion

 

[Blue By Blood]

A game isn't complete without Zaccy going off with a life threatening injury..

This is the thing. You can't take any player into a game who can't be trusted to hold up body wise. He's a good player but he goes down literally during every game. It limits rotations and exposes us even more in 2nd halves.

But genuinely haven't seen us have such a small injury list in ages. It's both pleasing and concerning we still can't get the job done.

 

[ferrisb]

Concussion

Yeah, I know. I just meant that he looked like he might have also done some damage to his shoulder (and it's the one he broke in his underage year).

Really hoping the club hasn't swept a shoulder injury under the carpet under the guise of concussion ruling.

I'm being a bit paranoid. Just hope his shoulder is OK.

 

[JJBagger]

Yeah, I know. I just meant that he looked like he might have also done some damage to his shoulder (and it's the one he broke in his underage year).

Really hoping the club hasn't swept a shoulder injury under the carpet under the guise of concussion ruling.

I'm being a bit paranoid. Just hope his shoulder is OK.

His shoulder wasn’t an issue from that collision. It was his hip/lower back

 

[The Bighouse]

Yeah, I know. I just meant that he looked like he might have also done some damage to his shoulder (and it's the one he broke in his underage year).

Really hoping the club hasn't swept a shoulder injury under the carpet under the guise of concussion ruling.

I'm being a bit paranoid. Just hope his shoulder is OK.

Thought it was more landing on his back / winding at the time.
Push from the MFC player of LY destabilised the contest and flipped.
Unsure why he was in hospital to begin with, which may have been the shoulder complaint or an internal check (?)
Can come back via the Reserves now.

 

[carlton_99]

 

[Red_man2008]

Since bloody when. Who else had had an infection related break from the game. Haven’t heard of any players.

 

[RAPPA]

Since bloody when. Who else had had an infection related break from the game. Haven’t heard of any players.

Our whole team has an infection related break from the second half of games

 

[Blue By Blood]

We can't even keep clean facilities.. shows how well we're going at the moment.

Jokes aside.. that does seem like a high number of staph infections across that time. Quite common in sporting areas where there's lots of skin contact, shared facilities, cuts etc. but surely we can better in this space. Footy is hard enough with ACLs, strains, broken bones, corkies than to compound that with something mostly avoidable with clean practices like a staph infection.

 

[Jimmae]

AFL injury news: Weitering update, news on two more

Updates on Jacob Weitering, Cooper Lord and Zac Williams.

www.carltonfc.com.au

UPDATES on three Blues leading into Gather Round.

* Zac Williams trained fully this week and is available for selection.

Jacob Weitering (concussion)

• Modified program
• Availability: Round 6
• Entered concussion protocols following Friday’s game and will be unavailable for AFL selection this week.

Cooper Lord (illness)

• Full training
• Availability: Round 6
• Had returned to full training and is expected to be available to play next week.