Retired #18: Michael Hurley 🐻 - Staying on in a coaching and player welfare role! - 3/10

[Lore]

Contract Status: Retired
Last Game Played: Currently in the side
Injury Status: Comes back from injury to play his final game for the club this weekend - 18/8

Spoiler

2022
He's back! Playing a half in the VFL this weekend - 15/7
Joins main training in the next couple of weeks! - 15/6
Had a calf setback, now running again - 28/4
Wants to play a half in the VFL in the next couple of weeks - 30/3
Joined main training? - 3/3
Ahead of schedule, doing some big running loads - 16/2
Progressing well, R1 'too soon' to return, no time frame - 11/1
On track for playing return around Round 6 - 12/3

2021
Ahead of schedule, running soon - 15/12
Hip replacement surgery - 10/10
Placed on the inactive list, will not play in 2021 - 31/5
Hopes to play the last 6 weeks of the season if not sooner - 26/4
At the club daily doing 1-2 hours of exercise for recovery - 23/3
On the mend - 19/3
Apparently using the hot/cold pools at the club, progress? - 5/3
Limping on crutches with an IV at the preseason game - 25/2
Discharged, recuperating at home... again. No time frame on return - 17/2
Apparently back in hospital - 15/2
Discharged from hospital, recuperating at home. No timeframe - 9/2
In hospital with an infected leg - 4/2

My Boy Draft 2022: Claim here

 

[CBombers17]

Must take a man when he comes back in.

 

[Lore]

Match volume, match speeds last Saturday.. available this weekend (luckily, since Ambrose is now injured).

In better news for Bombers fans, Michael Hurley is in line to put his hand up for selection after recovering from a hamstring strain.

“Hurls did a really good session on Saturday, we’re happy with how he trained.

“He did a match volume at match speeds, he’ll train fully this week and be expected to be available.”

http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/2018-05-29/skins-injury-update-rd-11

 

[blitzer]

Really glad he's back, particularly as Ambrose is now out for the next few games.

Some people on here are really harsh. The ball was coming in under no pressure week after week so everyone looked worse. If we actually show the same intent that we have the last couple of weeks I guarantee that Hurley will look like the AA star that he is.

 

[Yoda_]

Gee whiz he’s been a touch underwhelming tonight

 

[Vindicater]

I have not seen a player fall off a cliff like Hurley has this season.

Something is very wrong.

 

[JayJ20]

I've seen enough of him this year. Needs to work on his form

 

[Yoda_]

I have not seen a player fall off a cliff like Hurley has this season.

Something is very wrong.

Have suggested I would put him up for trade come years end

 

[eDPS]

We can’t have him playing loose ever again, he is too easy to work out and clubs are more than happy to leave him loose

 

[JT_the_Man]

2s?

 

[Burzum]

Trade.

 

[Phone]

tired: hurley back or forward
wired: hurley seniors or reserves

(hurley back in the seniors, but i wouldn't mind if he never touched the ball 25 times in a game again)

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Play him forward or drop him. His presence is not good for the backline currently.

 

[biglaycock]

Looks completely disinterested in football to me, I think the saga has taken more from him than most others, Even last year he didn’t appear to have the combative style and hunger that we all loved

 

[quotemokc]

Should have been made to earn his place in the VFL this week.

Hartley would have given us just as much without all the long kicking turnovers.

 

[Tassieboy]

He is trying to play the post 2008 Fletcher role. The problem is, he does not impact contests and his kicking is atrocious. The hoof long is something that might have worked a decade ago, but with teams pressing up its a simple turnover every time.

He and Goddard also like to push out to the back pocket for cheap, useless disposals that achieve nothing.

 

[Lore]

He is trying to play the post 2008 Fletcher role. The problem is, he does not impact contests and his kicking is atrocious. The hoof long is something that might have worked a decade ago, but with teams pressing up its a simple turnover every time.

He and Goddard also like to push out to the back pocket for cheap, useless disposals that achieve nothing.

I think you make a good point, it's not just him out of form. It's a structural issue where we have both he and Goddard floating around down back at the same time playing the same role (and both out of form..).

 

[Highly Evolved]

He looked really sad. Needs a hug.

 

[mad_monkey_j]

Old mate hack it forward Hurley. I was worried what would happen if he came back into the team and they tried to funnel the ball through him.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

His disposal by foot is awful.

Stop this bullshit, put him back to what he and everyone knows he can do, play one-on-one on a dangerous forward. He can fix the rest after.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Concerning how he's fallen of a cliff

 

[TheFrenchCut]

Good Lord, there is some absolute dross in this thread.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

His game worked better when he was just playing man on man and didn't have to be the centrepiece of defence.

 

[TheBrightSide]

Old mate hack it forward Hurley. I was worried what would happen if he came back into the team and they tried to funnel the ball through him.

It seemed like 90% of his kicks were blind long bombs to no one.

 

[Jacques_]

Needs to go back to completely priding his game on 1v1 defence again. Was the strength of his game up until about two thirds of the way through last season. Has been very bizzare watching it dissolve out of his game since then.

 

[Highly Evolved]

We should only be carrying Goddard in the floating back role for one of many reasons, including those such as:

A. He is better at it; and

B. A fit, and more importantly larger, Hurley is far more damaging as a 1-on-1 defensive beast.