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I keep reading we are racking up the injuries and are in trouble. Sure players are sore and have knocks but that's normal. As I said the other day, most of them are flankers that can be replaced. Butters is hard to replace his output and we will miss Houston's delivery inside 50, but we aren't missing 4 or 5 KPP's we don't have the depth to cover.
Our coaches say we have to take a squad type approach if we are going to win a flag. Lets practice what they preach.
Best 16
Zak Butters – ankle (3-4 weeks)
Dan Houston – shoulder (assess)
Xavier Duursma – knee (11-13 weeks)
SPP - coming back from personal issues
17th-25th type
Hamish Hartlett – corked thigh (assess)
Riley Bonner – hamstring (1 week)
Depth
Jackson Mead – spleen (TBC)
Rookies - weren't/aren't going to play this year unless a major crisis happens
Tyson Goldsack – knee (2-3 weeks)
Jake Pasini – shoulder (9-10 weeks)
Yes the last couple of games we have had match day injuries that have made the task harder than expected, but them's the breaks.
I think the injury crisis is overstated. Teams have injuries, it's part of the game. We've been very lucky the past couple of years, this is just a return to normal programming.
Also, it's long term injuries that really kill you. Our only long term injury to a key player is Duursma - and even that isn't season ending. We'll be fine.
His left lower leg/ankle was trapped under the tackler in this tackle. Watch the video on the AFL site and you can see how he could have ended up with an injury similar to Butters.Tredders had nothing on Jones on the news tonight.
I do remember him injuring his ankle during the game and getting it re strapped wait and see I guess.
I think the injury crisis is overstated. Teams have injuries, it's part of the game. We've been very lucky the past couple of years, this is just a return to normal programming.
Also, it's long term injuries that really kill you. Our only long term injury to a key player is Duursma - and even that isn't season ending. We'll be fine.
The injury crisis is overstated because of recency bias. We had a great run the first four months of the year, then we had four months' worth of injuries at once over the last two weeks.
Not Port fans the media have been quite incessant that we are banged up.Its not even bejng overstated. If you go back a page there's literally one person saying we're getting hit hard. No awards for guessing who.
And.....They’re about to discuss the Jones injury in SENSA
Surgery and out for a month as the poster on the Jones thread mentioned yesterday.And.....
Is that the antithesis of MENSA?They’re about to discuss the Jones injury in SENSA
You are absolutely correctIs that the antithesis of MENSA?