Retired # 2: Tom Bellchambers - Knocks Cam Mooney the **** out - 24/5

[freddy mercury]

If he was a race horse..

 

[Doss]

Might be a bit early to write him off for good, no?

It's an eight week injury. It's not good but it's not like it's year over.

 

[Whispering_Jack]

Might be a bit early to write him off for good, no?

It's an eight week injury. It's not good but it's not like it's year over.

No, but it feels like we've seen this movie before.

 

[DapperDon]

It's not great, not writing him off completely but we wont see him until after the mid season break.

He will miss pre season games and lacking fitness so he'll be playing VFL for a fair bit I'd imagine. (depending on other injuries)

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Rip Belcho

Can't catch a break the poor guy.

 

[yodellinhank]

Might be a bit early to write him off for good, no?

It's an eight week injury. It's not good but it's not like it's year over.

Might even be a bit late

 

[Doss]

No.

 

[yodellinhank]

There's always the fire brigade

 

[Doss]

 

[hurlygurdy]

Never wishing for an injury to anyone of course, but of all the potential best 22 players to go down, he would be my preference (sounds bad but you know what i mean). It's not impossible that if TBC was in good form he might actually have made the team a little worse. As a stay at home full forward (in place of Hooker), with the midfield delivery we can expect this year, he might have kicked a couple of goals each game along with chop out in the ruck. That sounds fine on paper, but he doesn't apply pressure to the opposition defense in terms of work rate so unless he is really hurting them with 3+ goals, then he can be played off while helping their structure. It's really hard for the coaches to quantify the positives verses negatives in that sort of scenario so he probably holds his place in the team. Meanwhile, if TBC doesn't play, Hooker goes to full forward and totally messes with the opposition structure while kicking similar (or more) goals, leading to more total team goals from the crumbs etc.
In short, i'd really like to see how the team goes without TBC early in the season, then bring him in later on if our structures aren't working as hoped.

 

[Seagrave_Holmes]

Goodnight sweet prince

 

[daffo]

A lot of negativity here. My boy will come back. Out for 8 weeks.. kicks 8 goals in his first game back.
Easy.

 

[efcboy]

A lot of negativity here. My boy will come back. Out for 8 weeks.. kicks 8 goals in his first game back.
Easy.

For Strathmore in 2018?

 

[Doss]

Reading all of this, I hope Tom comes back and kicks eleventy goals and then flips the bird in Strathmore's general direction.

 

[Andronicus]

A lot of negativity here. My boy will come back. Out for 8 weeks.. kicks 8 goals in his first game back.
Easy.

Hmm.

True. I hadn't thought of it like that.

 

[ant555]

No, but it feels like we've seen this movie before.

 

[Doss]

It's not quite Gumby or Pears levels of Groundhog though.

 

[Towno78]

Nearly 2 months later we our going with surgery strange decision.

Go on, please. What exactly is strange?

 

[eth-dog]

Go on, please. What exactly is strange?

The fact that it was an issue then and they didn't put him in for surgery then?

 

[Towno78]

The fact that it was an issue then and they didn't put him in for surgery then?

That's very easy to say in hindsight.
Most issues are rehabbed well and the player returns to full training, this one didn't respond as they expected. It happens. Doesn't make it strange or necessarily even the wrong decision with the information available to them at the time.

 

[bjisgod9]

Yep disappointing rehab didn't pay off, but they would try to avoid surgery if possible. Don't really see a spot in the side for Tommy anyway, unless he is in goal kicking form and has improved mobility. Really hope James Stewart is up to the task to take the role Tommy would be fighting for.

 

[The Fact]

That's very easy to say in hindsight.
Most issues are rehabbed well and the player returns to full training, this one didn't respond as they expected. It happens. Doesn't make it strange or necessarily even the wrong decision with the information available to them at the time.

A player like Tom that has so many issues you think you'd just fix him up then get back to it. Its poor player management and seems to happen to one player in our team ever year.

 

[Maddogm]

Sending players to surgery as the first option is poor player management. Most surgery does damage to the healthy surrounding area as part of the procedure, it's not something you want to be trigger happy with.

 

[The Fact]

Sending players to surgery as the first option is poor player management. Most surgery does damage to the healthy surrounding area as part of the procedure, it's not something you want to be trigger happy with.

Nothing to do with being trigger happy assess each player different belly has had a poor track record which has seen him have to go get surgery anyway. He should have gone from the start.

 

[Towno78]

A player like Tom that has so many issues you think you'd just fix him up then get back to it. Its poor player management and seems to happen to one player in our team ever year.

Rehab falls in the "fixing him up" bucket every bit as much surgery does.
Player management is not an exact science and never will be. If for example, rehab alone has a 90% chance of getting a player up in a reasonable time frame, you take that option. In the event the 10% happens and you need to change your management, it's unfortunate but so be it. That is an inevitability given the volume of injuries these players are managing, and I don't think they'd be phased by keyboard warriors bashing them for it.