AFL Player #15: Jayden Laverde

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Unrestricted Free Agent 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 7, Nuggs Bunny

 

[yodellinhank]

Got injured thinking about playing geelong

 

[Jesse Custer]

If that was not bad then I would hate to see bad. He did not look great to me. Very stiff in the right leg.

Oh ok. Obviously that came from an untrained eye.

 

[ant555]

Oh ok. Obviously that came from an untrained eye.

I knew where to look as I had seen where he had the ice strapped. Very stiff in the upper hammy

 

[DapperJong]

Put him in a slow cooker and eat him.

 

[Lore]

Could've been worse. We didn't draft Blaine Boekhorst

Boekhurst was taken before the pick we used on Laverde anyway..?

 

[Albertross]

Put him in a slow cooker and eat him.

Ham would taste better.

 

[TheFrenchCut]

Ah yes, the old round 6 delisting - a bigfooty favourite.

 

[Haychh]

Boekhurst was taken before the pick we used on Laverde anyway..?

Yes and given the opportunity to draft both Carlton chose the former

 

[madrigal]

Ah yes, the old round 6 delisting - a bigfooty favourite.

How many chances should a guy get before people realise he is a bad footballer?

 

[JayJ20]

How many chances should a guy get before people realise he is a bad footballer?

Bad footballer because he's been injured his whole AFL career?
When will people realise that the guy has hardly ever had any consistency before an injury? He's had more injuries in his short career than players have in an entire career. And he's just turned 23.

He'd easily have been in the side against Geelong if he didn't get injured.

 

[madrigal]

Bad footballer because he's been injured his whole AFL career?

Sorry, I forgot. If you are genetically endowed with superior power, speed and reflexes, it is called skill. But if you are genetically endowed with fragile muscles, connective tissues, it is called bad luck.

 

[JayJ20]

Sorry, I forgot. If you are genetically endowed with superior power, speed and reflexes, it is called skill. But if you are genetically endowed with fragile muscles, connective tissues, it is called bad luck.

I don't know what you're talking about, but ok I guess.

 

[madrigal]

I don't know what you're talking about, but ok I guess.

An athlete that is always injured is a bad athlete.

 

[JayJ20]

An athlete that is always injured is a bad athlete.

 

[Lore]

Sorry, I forgot. If you are genetically endowed with superior power, speed and reflexes, it is called skill. But if you are genetically endowed with fragile muscles, connective tissues, it is called bad luck.

And if you play half a dozen games a year between injuries, it's called "not enough data to make a call".

 

[madrigal]

And if you play half a dozen games a year between injuries, it's called "not enough data to make a call".

Maybe a cashed up club like Essendon should get more data. Test if he has any polymorphisms that make him susceptible to specific injuries and adjust his training and recovery accordingly.

 

[Lore]

Maybe a cashed up club like Essendon should get more data. Test if he has any polymorphisms that make him susceptible to specific injuries and adjust his training and recovery accordingly.

Spend lots of money so you can have more data to decide whether he is a bad footballer, when you've already formed a conclusion without it? Why would that be a priority?

 

[BomberFan355]

Put him in a slow cooker and eat him.

Mmmm all that tender scar tissue.

 

[madrigal]

Spend lots of money so you can have more data to decide whether he is a bad footballer, when you've already formed a conclusion without it? Why would that be a priority?

Good point, should have done it before they recruited him.

 

[yaco55]

We have enough data to make a call whether Laverde is AFL standard - he's just AFL standard, though he's been hamstrung by injury.

 

[I Remember Bluey]

If that was not bad then I would hate to see bad. He did not look great to me. Very stiff in the right leg.

Excited???

 

[JayJ20]

What’s taking so long? Tell me what’s happened to him. How bad is it?

 

[eth-dog]

What’s taking so long? Tell me what’s happened to him. How bad is it?

Injury reports always come out Tuesday between 4 and 6 (usually around 5)

 

[Falcon27]

Question is, will it be the standard AFL hamstring of 3-4 weeks or the Essendon hamstring of 8-12 weeks?

 

[JayJ20]

W

Injury reports always come out Tuesday between 4 and 6 (usually around 5)

Oh ok. Didn’t think it was consistent.

I hope it’s not major.