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Fancy gizmos and desperation to cover their arses.
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Apparently, the damage was done on Thursday!
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Gibson's fitness level, professionalism and preparation at NM was elite, by all accounts. He was certainly one of our fittest, pre-season, until Hass' program cut him down after 130 injury-free games.
("Sam, welcome, and well done on your fitness and injury-free career --- meet Hass".
Hass: " Hi Sam, do all these things". Later ... (not much later) ...
Sam: "Aaaaarrrgh, my hammy!!!" )
CANNOT be coincidence.
If he's ready to play SANFL as was planned, now he's ready to play AFL given our injuries plague.
If any of the players does a hammie tonight, Hass should finally admit his incompetence and resign.
Couldn't it have waited for a couple of days FFS!Apparently, the damage was done on Thursday!
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First year player has an off game, lets not pick him again?
Dear has been on our list 4 years and has shown himself to be nothing more than OK at SANFL level and you want to give him a game over the future of our forward line?
If there is a silver lining in the current situation is that we are being forced to play youngsters who have had a bad game, maybe we will see that they bounce back, confident in getting a few games strung together to start playing decent regular football.
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Not so sure.
I think he won pre-season time trials (...?) ie was very fit.
Certainly won't be match-fit, but he has a history of excellent preparation of his own.
I feel for Gibson. He maybe has this season and one more in him ... he'd been bullet-proof under the Kanga-Tech system developed at North - then he gets a chance at a real premiership run at the Crows where we utilise the same system ... but somehow we have pulled the wrong lever and ka-pow. I hope we all notice that North have a full list available and are flying above expectations ... it's not the tech that's the problem.Gibson's fitness level, professionalism and preparation at NM was elite, by all accounts. He was certainly one of our fittest, pre-season, until Hass' program cut him down after 130 injury-free games.
("Sam, welcome, and well done on your fitness and injury-free career --- meet Hass".
Hass: " Hi Sam, do all these things". Later ... (not much later) ...
Sam: "Aaaaarrrgh, my hammy!!!" )
CANNOT be coincidence.
If he's ready to play SANFL as was planned, now he's ready to play AFL given our injuries plague.
If any of the players does a hammie tonight, Hass should finally admit his incompetence and resign.
He is a the best example of how long it actually takes to get over whatever we did. Was going to play round 1 but experienced awareness - now he is finally in the 22 for Round 9. The guy is a machine when it comes to prep, and he is as experienced on the tech as anyone .. so not many will do it quicker than him.
10 weeks to be back properly? Or have we rushed Gibbo in?
Doesn't feel too good to think that Matt Crouch is at the start of it.
Dear confuses me. I think its that old thing of "if you were in the four walls". We see a snippet of these guys ... the club sees much more.
When we tried him, he seemed to be everything you want in a potential big forward. Then again, so did McKernan.
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To both of you, there has certainly been some overreaction in here --- but I don't think people are complaining about injuries like Gov's which can happen to anyone in the heat of battle. The problems are two-fold:
--- the fitness staff have been playing personnel when they are underdone (Tex), and/or injured (Sloane, who should not have played after Round 2, but limped around for 2 more games until rested!!!). The question from that is: why do they know their own players so poorly, to do that?
--- it's undeniable there has been a spate of hamstring injuries, much more than the usual one might expect. It's suspected (for good reason imo) that Hass is responsible.
1) it's been very frustrating, but accusing people of making themselves feel better "by assuming someone must be responsible" is a strange conclusion to make. What's the evidence for that? Especially since there has to be something wrong with what they've been doing, at someone's instruction (ie someone is responsible), to sustain so many hamstring injuries.
2) I haven't seen many posters say they've felt personally insulted by the players' hamstring injuries. Makes no sense. However, telling BF posters to "grow up" --- which is personally insulting --- won't endear you to the Board.
I've been a fan, so I might be bias. What I see, though, is a big, agile guy, good below his knees, aggressive, can take a grab and can ruck.
I agree, there's clearly stuff we don't see, but jeez, why keep him on the list so long if we have no plans to try him out?
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Very good post. I'd love to know "whatever we did" is!
No other club has sustained the same number of hamstring injuries in the first 8 rounds. The only logical conclusion is: the fitness staff have done something wrong.
Club statement which we will never see:
"The AFC fitness staff and management are all very concerned at the run of hamstring injuries some players have sustained. An internal review will be taken immediately to discover what has been done wrongly and to make the necessary changes, in personnel too, if necessary".
They'll wait until after we've made up the numbers this year, or missed out altogether.
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Your really good analysis has given me hope for tonight, thanks.
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Great comeback.
All true.
Gibson is the classic example. His preparation and fitness are elite and he played 130 consecutive games for NM. Under Hass, PING! he does a hamstring (along with several other players). It canNOT be a coincidence. There are too many of the same injury.
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I'll try.
Gibson was declared fit and was going to be brought back via SANFL. Gibson's fitness is elite (Crows time trials winner) and he's one of few players we can select with AFL experience (130 AFL games, all consecutive until Hass got to him), to run through the midfield and off the wing. Gibson is experienced enough to know not to over-extend himself, first game back (I hope!
). I want to see him go in hard and provide a contest --- he'll have some AFL nous about positioning and blocking too.I fear his selection less than I am worried about seeing him limp off with another pinged hammie
. We'll know tonight.
Gibson's fitness level, professionalism and preparation at NM was elite, by all accounts. He was certainly one of our fittest, pre-season, until Hass' program cut him down after 130 injury-free games.
("Sam, welcome, and well done on your fitness and injury-free career --- meet Hass".
Hass: " Hi Sam, do all these things". Later ... (not much later) ...
Sam: "Aaaaarrrgh, my hammy!!!" )
CANNOT be coincidence.
If he's ready to play SANFL as was planned, now he's ready to play AFL given our injuries plague.
If any of the players does a hammie tonight, Hass should finally admit his incompetence and resign.
Gibson coming straight in at AFL level isn’t a huge concern for me. He’s played at AFL level for 10 years and did almost a full pre season. Ideally he’d play SANFL, but given our current situation it makes perfect sense to bring him in.
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I do think that is about it. Its not ideal but there is a bottom of the barrel feel. Not suggesting Gibson is BoB but the circumstances dictate he plays AFL instead of SANFLI'll try.
Gibson was declared fit and was going to be brought back via SANFL. Gibson's fitness is elite (Crows time trials winner) and he's one of few players we can select with AFL experience (130 AFL games, all consecutive until Hass got to him), to run through the midfield and off the wing. Gibson is experienced enough to know not to over-extend himself, first game back (I hope!
I fear his selection less than I am worried about seeing him limp off with another pinged hammie
So we gain 3x depth players & 1x best-22 player, while losing 4x best-22 players (Walker, Brown, Matt Crouch, McGovern) and having another (Knight) confirmed as being out for an extended period. How is this an improvement?
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