Crows 2019 injury and fitness thread with regular updates.

[pjcrows]

No real drama.

Shuffle Smith to a back pocket, shift Milera up forward, leave either Jones or McHenry out.

That leaves a vacancy at half back for a run and carry player....lets see, who’s left that can fill that role

No Pete! No!

 

[Elite Crow]

No real drama.

Shuffle Smith to a back pocket, shift Milera up forward, leave either Jones or McHenry out.

That leaves a vacancy at half back for a run and carry player....lets see, who’s left that can fill that role

You’re a bad man, verry bad man

 

[Alwaysacrow]

It is a bummer about Brown. Good player but replaceable. On a brighter note, isn't it good barely 2 weeks out from round 1 and the injuries update thread is only 5 pages long! It probably would've been 50 this time last year.

 

[MRB37]

Well enough to be promoted, surely the club has to look at him.

Hasn't trained down back and doesn't know the structures or setups, so don't think it will even be considered.

 

[Elite Crow]

Hasn't trained down back and doesn't know the structures or setups, so don't think it will even be considered.

That’s what I’m thinking but given Browns had his injury for a while, you would have thought they should have looked at it

 

[MRB37]

That’s what I’m thinking but given Browns had his injury for a while, you would have thought they should have looked at it

I'm guessing the assumption would have been he'd be OK for round 1 and if not we'd have Mackay and Kelly, so it wasn't required.

 

[Bob Neil]

I’d like Murphy to be trialled as a replacement for Brown as the small lockdown back pocket player.

I’m not convinced he’s got the goods to be a long term player in the forward pocket and it’s now a position where we have some depth whereas I don’t immediately see a natural replacement for Brown currently on our list.

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

I'd back Jake Kelly over Luke Brown pace wise. Lachie Murphy played a heap of hbf/bp in the SANFL in his 1st year with us and did supremely well.

lol

 

[Squiba]

No real drama.

Shuffle Smith to a back pocket, shift Milera up forward, leave either Jones or McHenry out.

That leaves a vacancy at half back for a run and carry player....lets see, who’s left that can fill that role

BF needs a dislike button.

 

[Scorpus]

No real drama.

Shuffle Smith to a back pocket, shift Milera up forward, leave either Jones or McHenry out.

That leaves a vacancy at half back for a run and carry player....lets see, who’s left that can fill that role

Peter "Camporeale" J

 

[lunacy]

Brown isn't that quick either.

Are you serious? Yes he is.

 

[crows dude]

Brown isn't that quick either.

Yes he is

 

[Cromulent]

Bad luck for Browny. All the best with the recovery. Fortunately we have a bit of coverage there.

Back 7 will more than likely look like:

B: Kelly - Talia - Doedee
HB: Laird - Keath - Smith
I: Milera

Or we could have Murphy, Jones, McHenry or *shudder* Mackay or Douglas cover if we needed..

 

[Jars458]

Brown is quite a big loss IMO. Very very good player.

 

[GrommoT]

At least we know Kelly can defend.

We also know DMac can offend...











...Crows BF posters

or so I've heard

 

[ad victoriam]

Didn't Kelly play in Luke Brown Position on Saturday,
And you're all forgetting Will Hamill.

 

[hey shorty]

Didn't Kelly play in Luke Brown Position on Saturday,
And you're all forgetting Will Hamill.

Don't reckon we will throw Will in just yet.

Kelly is certainly the incumbent and I'm relatively happy with that.

 

[Thetrader15]

Luke Brown has all of a sudden become even more underrated by this board...and he was already the most underrated player on our list.
He will be a huge loss

 

[Pea Nut]

Luke Brown has all of a sudden become even more underrated by this board...and he was already the most underrated player on our list.
He will be a huge loss

I think most appreciate how good he is. No one is suggesting that Kelly is as good as Brown, just that he could hold down that spot.

 

[ad victoriam]

Luke Brown has all of a sudden become even more underrated by this board...and he was already the most underrated player on our list.
He will be a huge loss

He is not underrated, but he is injured and cannot play for a while so we talk about who will replace him, As for a huge Loss, No unless the Crows has several best 22 players missing, then replacing 1 best 22 is not a huge gap.

 

[Shaz2012]

FFS. That is terrible news about Brown. Its also another knock to the high performance staff for getting it wrong and waiting until now to get him in for surgery. It's not like there isn't precedence here that we should be worried about. I have absolutely no faith in the high performance team that ruined us last season and pretty much everyone is still there.

Over reaction? Possibly. But I cant help but feel like this is same s**t different day. Who's next?

 

[Tex200]

Just in case anyone missed my earlier sarcasm, be in no doubt Browny is a huge loss.

 

[Jack is Back]

IMHO, defence is our archilles heel ( and we rarely have a shortage of dodgy archilles), we have a boatload of elite rebounding defenders but only one quality lockdown key defender = Talia, one quality lockdown medium/small defender = Brown and one quality third tall intercept defender = Doedee.

Whilst not in our best 22, Kelly is by far our next best medium/small lockdown defender. I therefore predict that an injury is not far away. If Bran Nue Mackae can pull this off he will make Steven Bradbury look like a frontrunner.

 

[Bicks]

Didn't Kelly play in Luke Brown Position on Saturday,
And you're all forgetting Will Hamill.

Using the U23 game as a guide Lachlan Sholl would be more deserving at this point.

 

[Jack is Back]

Using the U23 game as a guide Lachlan Sholl would be more deserving at this point.

I agree.

Will showed some glimpses but at this stage, in a high pressure AFL game, he is a turnover waiting to happen.