Injury 2021 injury thread, brought to you by Kevin White and AIA

[Kirby]

He played out the second half of a game last year with a torn quad.

Shut up!

 

[jackcass]

Completely flummoxed why they didnt just decide to send Brown to surgery a week ago and then take another pick in the Mid season draft. Absolute free swing.

Surgery for a current listed player should never be a drafting decision. This isn't fantasy footy, it's people's lives you're willing to dabble with.

 

[jackcass]

Maybe they thought they’d generated enough bad press by offloading Treloar, Stephenson and Phillips last offseason to be frivolously drafting and delisting more people they simply don’t rate.

As it stands, we'll have to delist something like 5 senior listed players to free up the list spots and attached points for Daic's and Dib.

 

[jackcass]

Maybe.

I hardly think giving a chance to a kid for a 6 month tryout is going to add in any way to the bad press they are currently copping from all angles. They have signed a player from Senegal or wherever.... ffs... who can’t even get into the country.

As it stands, Faye will be our only Cat B rookie in 2022 AFAIK. He's a free hit outside the list.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

As it stands, Faye will be our only Cat B rookie in 2022 AFAIK. He's a free hit outside the list.

Yes I actually don’t have an issue with it. Just found it ironic really.

It beggars belief that they couldn’t find somebody who is actually living in this country to fill a third mid season list position for another free hit.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Surgery for a current listed player should never be a drafting decision. This isn't fantasy footy, it's people's lives you're willing to dabble with.

The medical decision was made a week ago prior to list closures. They had their chance to put him on the LTI list and they opted out.

 

[Scodog10]

As it stands, we'll have to delist something like 5 senior listed players to free up the list spots and attached points for Daic's and Dib.

Not quite. If we were to trade a player like Maynard or JDG that’ll sort out the points situation without needing to drop that many players off the list.

 

[jackcass]

Not quite. If we were to trade a player like Maynard or JDG that’ll sort out the points situation without needing to drop that many players off the list.

Yep, or even lower value players for later picks, and we can pick swap for higher cumulative value. I doubt trading what experienced high end talent we have remaining is on the agenda. That's my hope anyway. If a player makes a request however.... At this stage, ensuring all the picks with points value we have are in play appears the most likely option IMHO.

 

[Quicky]

So Moore has a suspected PCL. Maynard has a swollen hand, cause unknown. And De Goey suspended because the tribunal are soft. Unreal.

 

[Jen2310]

So Moore has a suspected PCL. Maynard has a swollen hand, cause unknown. And De Goey suspended because the tribunal are soft. Unreal.

The win yesterday had to be balanced somehow with some bad news.

 

[Jen2310]

 

[Kirby]

 

[legendstatus]

So if you asked me what players we couldn't afford to have injuries / suspensions, I would say

Moore
Howe
Grundy
Elliott
JDG
Adams

Any team with their best 5-6 would struggle to win any game.

 

[Robroy22]

So if you asked me what players we couldn't afford to have injuries / suspensions, I would say

Moore
Howe
Grundy
Elliott
JDG
Adams

Any team with their best 5-6 would struggle to win any game.

I totally agree but realistically its been that way for us for years now....and on another tack...try telling those new kids like Poulter and McCreery that you can't win. In the doldrums that has been 2021, we've uncovered a handful of rippers!

 

[manicmagpie]

Horrible news, if for no other reason than I simply love watching him play.

 

[sr36]

Horrible news, if for no other reason than I simply love watching him play.

Agree.

 

[Kirby]

I caught a bit of 9 News before who said that he could be available late in the season but the Pies are unlikely to risk him.

 

[Jen2310]

I caught a bit of 9 News before who said that he could be available late in the season but the Pies are unlikely to risk him.

Yeah, no point.
In a brace for 6 weeks. Thats round 20-21.

 

[domus]

Twice now Degoey has played out of his skin and been ruled out for the following week. It was 7 weeks last year actually.

 

[domus]

I totally agree but realistically its been that way for us for years now....and on another tack...try telling those new kids like Poulter and McCreery that you can't win. In the doldrums that has been 2021, we've uncovered a handful of rippers!

Sadly, uncovering young blood means nothing if we continue to have this wretched decade long run with injury. Imagine we were in contention again this year. This would be the fourth year in a row where we would have gone into finals missing irreplaceable footballers. No Howe or Moore means no hope in September. We cannot get our act together and all of the planning and recruiting in the world counts for naught if this crap drags on.

 

[legendstatus]

So the plan needs to be we tank and get pick 1 in preseason draft.


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[sr36]

Sadly, uncovering young blood means nothing if we continue to have this wretched decade long run with injury. Imagine we were in contention again this year. This would be the fourth year in a row where we would have gone into finals missing irreplaceable footballers. No Howe or Moore means no hope in September. We cannot get our act together and all of the planning and recruiting in the world counts for naught if this crap drags on.

How much longer is Howe out?

 

[partypie]

How much longer is Howe out?

Probably out for the year now that things are the way they are and him still being listed as 6-8 weeks away.

 

[sr36]

Probably out for the year now that things are the way they are and him still being listed as 6-8 weeks away.

I've forgotten - was it a hammy?

 

[partypie]

I've forgotten - was it a hammy?

Not really a hamstring per-se, more a disruption of some of the scar tissue around his knee from last year's surgery.

He then had another incidence of the same issue with scar tissue from his PCL surgery in early May and after more scans they found he had way more scar tissue in the hamstring than you'd expect from the type of PCL surgery he had, so the surgeon opted for a full clean out of the scar tissue which I'd imagine would be pretty complex and invasive given how hamstrings are structured.

(summarised from the round 9 injury report)