Injury 2026 Injury Thread

[robbieando]

Injury Update: Round 7

See the latest update on the Sydney Swans squad ahead of our Round 7 match against the Western Bulldogs. This Injury Update, presented by Castlereagh Imaging.

www.sydneyswans.com.au

Will Green: 8-10 weeks (Foot)
Errol Gulden: 3 months (Shoulder)
Max King: 4 months (Back)
Taylor Adams

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Taylor Adams

Age

32

Ht

181cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

24.9

5star

K

13.5

5star

HB

11.4

5star

M

4.0

4star

T

4.8

5star

CL

5.0

5star

D

20.4

5star

K

12.4

5star

HB

8.0

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

5.9

5star

CL

5.9

5star

D

18.2

5star

K

11.0

4star

HB

7.2

5star

M

4.4

4star

T

3.0

5star

CL

2.2

4star

: TBC (Hamstring)
Riak Andrew: TBC (Quad)
Braeden Campbell: TBC (Shin)

 

[Adnico26Parker]

Just noticed that the date of that Campbell update is from 2 weeks ago…

 

[Cadsky]

1-2 seasons

FTFY

 

[Dubai Quacker]

Braeden out with stress fracture in his shin

Return TBC

Injury Update: Braeden Campbell

An injury update on Braeden Campbell ahead of the season, presented by Castlereagh Imaging.

www.sydneyswans.com.au

A quick google indicates no weight bearing exercise allowed for up to 12 weeks. And in severe cases, a moon boot & even more time off.

That’d basically mean the bulk of the season…. or even the entire season.

Bonz - give us some better news!

 

[Edmund hunt]

Did the bus run over 10 black cats or something?

 

[Tedeski]

We still have the same fitness strength & conditioning team around them so I don’t see why we will have any better injury lists than we did last season.
It has already started with the new comers to the club falling early in the season.
I don’t expect a full list all season.

 

[Dubai Quacker]

We still have the same fitness strength & conditioning team around them so I don’t see why we will have any better injury lists than we did last season.
It has already started with the new comers to the club falling early in the season.
I don’t expect a full list all season.

I try not to be cynical.

But try as I might, the proliferation of stress-reaction type injuries to our younger players over the past 3 seasons is making it bloody hard.

 

[Slingshot Footy]

Are clubs just getting better at diagnosing stress reactions or are the increasing fitness demands creating more of them?

On the other hand, there is also an epidemic of shrinking testosterone in each successive generation of men. Perhaps we’re losing our bone density as a result?

 

[David 3058]

Sad news, I think we were all hoping this was the year Braeden took his game to another level.

I attended the Melbourne season launch at the MCG on 18 February - the night before we played the Dogs - and Braeden was one of six players who attended and spoke.

Complete guess because we'll never get the truth from our club's injury reports, but the words in the update "The club will seek external specialist advice due to to the complex nature of the injury" would have to mean 3+ months.

 

[Bonz]

A quick google indicates no weight bearing exercise allowed for up to 12 weeks. And in severe cases, a moon boot & even more time off.

That’d basically mean the bulk of the season…. or even the entire season.

Bonz - give us some better news!

I genuinely don't know what the injury is.

A complex shin fracture can be multiple things, but usually its impact (load based stress fractures in the shin usually aren't usually complicated (but you do have to be off your feet for them, so maybe complicated in recovery?)).

In fact usually a shin (Tibia) fracture is usually caused in car crash or bad fall (wondering if maybe he impacted it somewhere in the game last Thursday, but I didn't see such incident?

 

[Dubai Quacker]

I genuinely don't know what the injury is.

A complex shin fracture can be multiple things, but usually its impact (load based stress fractures in the shin usually aren't usually complicated (but you do have to be off your feet for them, so maybe complicated in recovery?)).

In fact usually a shin (Tibia) fracture is usually caused in car crash or bad fall (wondering if maybe he impacted it somewhere in the game last Thursday, but I didn't see such incident?

The club injury report says it’s a stress fracture, which I presume means it’s not related to a single impact.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Are clubs just getting better at diagnosing stress reactions or are the increasing fitness demands creating more of them?

On the other hand, there is also an epidemic of shrinking testosterone in each successive generation of men. Perhaps we’re losing our bone density as a result?

Time for IV test shots!

 

[liz]

Does ground hardness contribute anything to stress fractures?

 

[Edmund hunt]

Does ground hardness contribute anything to stress fractures?

Possibility that or overloading the body

 

[Bonz]

The club injury report says it’s a stress fracture, which I presume means it’s not related to a single impact.

Yeah just read it fully then (was out and about yesterday so genuinely didn't know what the injury report was).

That's interesting, as usually stress fractures in the shin are uncommon (shin splints are far more common and are usually caught out before they develop into a stress fracture) (they aren't hard to miss).

Would be really curious to read more about this one and it could lead into why it's complex (how did a tibia stress fracture form without splints being recognised first? Then there is recovery and staying for but fully off the leg).

 

[Bonz]

Does ground hardness contribute anything to stress fractures?

Yeah they can especially in high running loads or if your landing a bit on it.

 

[zyzzbruh]

Just noticed that the date of that Campbell update is from 2 weeks ago…

Can't help but seem like it was hidden to protect the club. We were up in arms with yet another stress injury with King going down after a host of others previous, imagine we added the reporting of another one on top of that..

Can't question the competency of S&C staff tho apparently, no sir, they're professionals and this is all just bad luck, and it's normal for athletes to sustain broken bones during preseason training loads

 

[liz]

Can't help but seem like it was hidden to protect the club.

I think it’s far more likely that it’s a date typo on the website. He played a full match against the Dogs on 19 Feb.

 

[Jewelsbon]

We still have the same fitness strength & conditioning team around them so I don’t see why we will have any better injury lists than we did last season.
It has already started with the new comers to the club falling early in the season.
I don’t expect a full list all season.

No disrespect Ted and I'm not in total disagreement with your point, but I don't recall any club ever having its full list available.

I genuinely don't know what the injury is.

A complex shin fracture can be multiple things, but usually its impact (load based stress fractures in the shin usually aren't usually complicated (but you do have to be off your feet for them, so maybe complicated in recovery?)).

In fact usually a shin (Tibia) fracture is usually caused in car crash or bad fall (wondering if maybe he impacted it somewhere in the game last Thursday, but I didn't see such incident?

He didn't play last Thursday.

 

[Kiama Chris]

I think it’s far more likely that it’s a date typo on the website. He played a full match against the Dogs on 19 Feb.

Never assume a conspiracy when incompetence is available. By that I mean the typo. No idea about anything else.

 

[liz]

Never assume a conspiracy when incompetence is available. By that I mean the typo. No idea about anything else.

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Never assume a conspiracy when incompetence is available. By that I mean the typo. No idea about anything else.

I think many prefer to live their lives with that mantra in reverse.

 

[zyzzbruh]

No disrespect Ted and I'm not in total disagreement with your point, but I don't recall any club ever having its full list available.

It's a concern when the injuries are all similar. And it's not like it's a bunch of hamstrings - might not necessarily be out of the ordinary but i'd dare say stress fractures would be considered a more unusual injury. So to have a pile of them at this time of year, year after year, there comes a point where it's no longer normal to consider it a coincidence or just 'bad luck'. It's well and truly a trend now to the point where it's wiped out our entire draft class.

Not hard to put two and two together imo - Preseason, pushing limits to extract as much performance as possible, uptick in stress fracture rates.... There comes a point where the injury limitations outweigh the performance benefits gained if players so happen to get through a rigorously loaded pre season.

 

[Adnico26Parker]

Now the first match is on Thursday, we should get some kind of whole of squad update.

But the club have not released a full injury update covering the whole squad since September. Ever since then, it's been selective player by player updates - Adams (pre Xmas), Bowman, Campbell, Cunningham, King, and Phillipou.

Club has not released any updates on:

- Dattoil - reported as "deloading" on 6 Feb, but no update on any injury, other than Paps referring to a "sore foot" and a delay of a few weeks.

- Cootee "hip injury", picked up either before or at the Newcastle camp in early December. Still not training or selected for any of the practice matches, so one must conclude injury is serious?

- Andrew, quad injury (last report from Callipygian was 2-3 weeks away a month ago, not selected in the VFL practice match last week)

- Hanily's foot issue (last seen in a moonboot, after Callipygian and McKirdy said on 6 Feb he was "deloading", not selected in the VFL practice match last week)

 

[joeykanga]

Sad news, I think we were all hoping this was the year Braeden took his game to another level.

I attended the Melbourne season launch at the MCG on 18 February - the night before we played the Dogs - and Braeden was one of six players who attended and spoke.

Complete guess because we'll never get the truth from our club's injury reports, but the words in the update "The club will seek external specialist advice due to to the complex nature of the injury" would have to mean 3+ months.

At least he doesnt have to wait 3 months to see a specialist like a mm

 

[Callipygian]

Could it be that our injury list is still in the top (i.e. better) half of the league (measured in, say, weeks of play expected to be lost)?

 

[Dubai Quacker]

So many stress reaction type injuries.

I think our strength & conditioning crew has some serious questions to answer.

Lehane has been there for 4 years & although I don’t know what the exact numbers are, it feels like the number of young players going down has increased over that time.