Player Watch #16 Josh Smillie - Updated TBC

[beema limapep]

Here we go.....

 

[docko911]

I read the injury report as saying there might be a very minor hamstring injury but we’ve realised we need to put a body of work into Josh’s fitness. We’ll go away now and do a sort of mini (4-6 week) preseason style fitness scheme with Josh to get him ready for his AFL debut.

 

[sante]

Apparently he will retire to give us a MSD pick, it won’t be Dion

 

[KrispyKreme]

The one that looks like a bad miss at this pick is Trainor

To be fair I was off Trainor when we picked him simply because of the concussions.
But his my favourite one so far.

 

[Football Tragic]

Remember when Cotchin had all those issues early in his career with his achilles. I remember many people saying he was a wasted pick and we should have tanked more games to get Kruezer.

Funny how quickly people are to write a kid off.

 

[Groupie_]

slicer serpell strikes, how does a kid have a 30 week hammie

bubble wrap ben

 

[wegetpumped]

Cripps was injured a lot in his first year and we have Gibcus, Armstrong and Smillie all injured.

We were talking about mids what's gib and Armstrong have to do with it. Your right though should be right across. Problem is you want to get them ready for AFL so how do you do that? Play them VFL which is rougher played on some terrible grounds? Or dump them out for 2 seasons in low leagues. If there bodies aren't ready they will break down any lvl.

 

[wegetpumped]

Remember when Cotchin had all those issues early in his career with his achilles. I remember many people saying he was a wasted pick and we should have tanked more games to get Kruezer.

Funny how quickly people are to write a kid off.

We had some of the best of the best running our medical departments back than even fixed Grimes and we didn't have all this long injuries. But we did have some poo players lol

 

[Aristotle Pickett the3rd]

We were talking about mids what's gib and Armstrong have to do with it. Your right though should be right across. Problem is you want to get them ready for AFL so how do you do that? Play them VFL which is rougher played on some terrible grounds? Or dump them out for 2 seasons in low leagues. If there bodies aren't ready they will break down any lvl.

Rest them every 3 weeks and play 15 games maximum for the year, also sub them off more.

 

[tiger_tough]

2 or 3 weeks Yze said on sen this arvo.

 

[RichoLedio]

2 or 3 weeks Yze said on sen this arvo.

Better be or you are gonna have to belt Morro

 

[Groupie_]

2 or 3 weeks Yze said on sen this arvo.

19 weeks all up and climbing

did they give him a leg transplant ?

 

[Morro]

Better be or you are gonna have to belt Morro

 

[G String]

Rest them every 3 weeks and play 15 games maximum for the year, also sub them off more.

I dont mind that philosophy - smart clubs are starting to do it with their older guys. I advocated this for nank a couple of years ago when he was struggling to stay on the park. Its a full squad mentality. It enables the rotation of the squad - so everyone on it can have a crack to see whether they're up to it. It freshens everyone up to help get over niggles, prevent load injuries and sustains their output. You see guys come back from injuries fresh and they just seem to be running on top of the ground. I'm all for it.

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

Need to spend summers with Percy Cerutty.

Reminds me of the potential bloodline available to us in about 17 years time.

 

[SnakeMan86]

Him or Jagga Nab Rising star 2026
Free money

 

[Grrr]

Reminds of the potential bloodline available to us in about 17 years time.

No that was in the dunes at Ocean Grove, plenty of bloodlines crossed back in the day.

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

Reminds me of the potential bloodline available to us in about 17 years time.

No that was in the dunes at Ocean Grove, plenty of bloodlines crossed back in the day.

The child of Kane Lambert sharing bloodlines of our greatest ever athlete

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

arse too big

Self awareness can be seen as a positive in most cases.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Him or Jagga Nab Rising star 2026
Free money

No contest

 

[Bird Man]

Its hard to understand the injury report...

So minor we cant put a date on his return? make it make sense

Do we need to send half our rookies to the USA to get some actual sports rehab and training?

 

[T4P]

An 18yo midfielder with the height of a key forward might not have the hamstrings sufficiently conditioned for the rigour of AFL football?

Have some patience. Seth Campbell didn't play at all in his first year and we can't talk more highly of him now. Just calm the * down

 

[Coach_Required]

An 18yo midfielder with the height of a key forward might not have the hamstrings sufficiently conditioned for the rigour of AFL football?

Have some patience. Seth Campbell didn't play at all in his first year and we can't talk more highly of him now. Just calm the * down

I always wonder how some of our supporters here coped before 2017. 37 years between flags takes a lot of patience something a few here have absolutely none of.

 

[T4P]

I always wonder how some of our supporters here coped before 2017. 37 years between flags takes a lot of patience something a few here have absolutely none of.

Ironically some of the impatient folks were likely around for 1980 too, or at least around for a couple of decades pre 2017

 

[juss]

It sounds like the club is learning its lesson though and happy to back off with players and bring it back. Hopefully that's what happens here, would rather lighten his load and expectations this year and ensure we're building his body succesfully rather than just trying to get as many match minutes into him.