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Mentions how much confidence he gained from playing those games and how much better his head space is for playing them.Pre-season | Kaine Baldwin
Young key forward Kaine Baldwin delves into how he's tackling his first full pre-season.www.essendonfc.com.au
Pre-season vid. Don't remember if he's been interviewed on the club website before
That doesn’t make it the right decision.Mentions how much confidence he gained from playing those games and how much better his head space is for playing them.
LOL his broken finger in the 2025 prelim will definitely be reachable back to playing those gamesThat doesn’t make it the right decision.
I will die on this hill if I have to!
That doesn’t make it the right decision.
I will die on this hill if I have to!
I don’t know knee injuries. I do know risk management.Well I can only talk from experience. Guess you have to live it to know it.
And it proved to be no risk.I don’t know knee injuries. I do know risk management.
Well that just not right.And it proved to be no risk.
Not like we are talking about rushing him back. They actually gave him a longer build up than normal. They have to play at some stage.
Well that just not right.
Anyway, we will never agree on this one Ant.
The statement there was no risk is incorrect. There was risk, it didn’t comeWhat is not correct ? He did his second knee injury in June 2020 (partial tear) and played again over 12 months later. The turn around is generally 9 to 10 months .
I was told from inside the club they eased him along longer than they needed to. Not much more I can say really. I have lived it twice and have spoken to people within the club about it.
Once at high school we were talking about the chances this particular girl would date my mate. It’s seemed unlikely but not impossible. Most were estimating 10-1 or 20-1. Except my mate who said well i don’t think she would date him but it’s obviously 50-50. She either will or she won’t. There are only two choices. 50-50.The statement there was no risk is incorrect. There was risk, it didn’t come
to fruition. The fact it didn’t come to fruition doesn’t make it a good decision.
We are coming at this from different perspectives, let’s just agree to
disagree.
The statement there was no risk is incorrect. There was risk, it didn’t come
to fruition. The fact it didn’t come to fruition doesn’t make it a good decision.
We are coming at this from different perspectives, let’s just agree to
disagree.
Just out of interest when should he play ?The statement there was no risk is incorrect. There was risk, it didn’t come
to fruition. The fact it didn’t come to fruition doesn’t make it a good decision.
We are coming at this from different perspectives, let’s just agree to
disagree.
Just out of interest when should he play ?
I said at the time….I would have waited until this season.Just out of interest when should he play ?
I said at the time….I would have waited until this season.
The club has actually taken a conservative path with all injuries after the Daniher debacle.
Langford got a knee to the hammy the second time. It was purely accidental that he missed again. Getting kneed in the same hammy started the bleeding again.Langford coming back early and reinsuring his hamstring is evidence to the contrary.
Happy with how we’ve handled Baldwin though
A different pesrspective is that just maybe the club wanted him to play time in those games (15% - 25% - 75%) to just see how the rehab had performed.I said at the time….I would have waited until this season.
Langford got a knee to the hammy the second time. It was purely accidental that he missed again. Getting kneed in the same hammy started the bleeding again.
Still feel like that was clearly exacerbated by rushing him back early. Contusions don’t reset the injury time of strains.
There's risk to him starting lateral movement training, risk to starting contact training, risk when doing match sim.The statement there was no risk is incorrect. There was risk, it didn’t come
to fruition. The fact it didn’t come to fruition doesn’t make it a good decision.
We are coming at this from different perspectives, let’s just agree to
disagree.
Serious question; is he a chance to debut in the first few rounds and impact this year ?
Everything you read and hear, he is doing exceptionally well.
Generally I would say he most likely will need some VFL footy given his tally of game time will be some quarters in a couple of scratch matches in close to 19 months once the pre season games start. You never know. He could do a Harry Jones and surprise.
His fitness might be ok, he'd have spent a lot of time running straight lines and on the bike during his rehabSounds like it is all going to come down to fitness (literally endurance) and the ability to make repeat efforts. Hoping he can do well and we manage to see him this year. Would be nice to see a hulking young forward at senior level again.