Rumour Harley Bennell

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Judd2Sewell said:
Can any of you floggos confirm whether he's training or likely to play round 1?
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Currently running a butt-load of laps (as has been the case since he got back from Germany). Confirmed to not be playing round 1. Personally I would be surprised if he played AFL in the first five rounds. More likely to play WAFL first.
 
Sully90 said:
Currently running a butt-load of laps (as has been the case since he got back from Germany). Confirmed to not be playing round 1. Personally I would be surprised if he played AFL in the first five rounds. More likely to play WAFL first.
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Its really strange for a bloke his age to have such bad calfes. They will be super cautious with him as his other calf just got worse and worse until it went completely.
 
Linda_Lovelace said:
Its really strange for a bloke his age to have such bad calfes. They will be super cautious with him as his other calf just got worse and worse until it went completely.
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Strange but not unheard of. I think the German doctor who treated him had a history of dealing with calf issues like Bennell's
 
estibador said:
Bennell hasn't been able to run for 12 months, no s**t he would've come back behind guys who'd just completed a full AFL season.

Is Hardie's next scoop going to be that NicNat is 8 months behind his teammates?
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lol wat thats not the point hardie is making

the take away from his article is that bennell is not adhering to recovery standards and that he's rocked up to the club after a big night out
 
Feerits Elf said:
That's strange, Hardie's not really one for hyperbole.
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StCicatriz said:
lol wat thats not the point hardie is making

the take away from his article is that bennell is not adhering to recovery standards and that he's rocked up to the club after a big night out
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I'm talking about the part where he said Bennell came back in preseason behind the rest of the group.

"...and given the work rate he doesn't have..."

Plus it's the first time I've heard the above said about Bennell. Lyon said he had impressed some hard to impress fitness coaches with his workrate when he first came over, and I remember some GC people saying he always worked hard on the track, his problem was just he partied hard off it as well.
 

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estibador said:
I'm talking about the part where he said Bennell came back in preseason behind the rest of the group.

"...and given the work rate he doesn't have..."

Plus it's the first time I've heard the above said about Bennell. Lyon said he had impressed some hard to impress fitness coaches with his workrate when he first came over, and I remember some GC people saying he always worked hard on the track, his problem was just he partied hard off it as well.
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bennell had returned to the main group mate, his work rate on return could have been a shared view with some at freo

the line about some at freo not wanting him back sure is interesting
 
jumboprince said:
So he was like some sort of specialist?
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TBH I'm not too sure. All I remember is he'd helped some pretty big names from other sports (European Football mostly) who'd had long-lasting injuries that weren't healing. There's been a number of articles covering the treatment.
 
Komrade_Tiger said:
the point is, it seems all too 'convenient' for him to suddenly have calf issues after the drugs issue came out

correlation =/= causation but people are always going to whisper and the rumours will always exist
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The thing about rumours. They can be put to bed with facts.

The biggest suspension you can get for the 3rd strike is 12 weeks...... So why would we have kept him out for the entire season.

Plus the AFL have to make the strike public... which never happened.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-07-18/how-the-new-afl-illicit-drugs-policy-works

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Unique Name said:
LOL. Yeah the AFL will risk the legitimacy of their stance on drugs for poor ol' Harley. The new policy and stance on drugs was after the Essendon saga.

Even if it was an AFL coverup. Why the whole year, not just for the 12 week ban?
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the AFL likes to look like their strong on drugs when they are not, the whole point of the AFL code was to try and keep ASADA/WADA at arm's length.

I truly detest and despise the AFL on a number of fronts, and their attitude to offences of this nature do not fill me with any modicum of confidence. If they could have, we would have never heard of the Essendon 34. The point here is, that Bennell would not be the only player with alleged covered up strikes - Remember the rumours around Dayne Beams and his mysterious 'recurring injury' which "conveniently" was 12 weeks?
 
Komrade_Tiger said:
the AFL likes to look like their strong on drugs when they are not, the whole point of the AFL code was to try and keep ASADA/WADA at arm's length.

I truly detest and despise the AFL on a number of fronts, and their attitude to offences of this nature do not fill me with any modicum of confidence. If they could have, we would have never heard of the Essendon 34. The point here is, that Bennell would not be the only player with alleged covered up strikes - Remember the rumours around Dayne Beams and his mysterious 'recurring injury' which "conveniently" was 12 weeks?
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So again.
if you think it was a coverup.. why the whole year, not just the 12 weeks?
 
Unique Name said:
So again.
if you think it was a coverup.. why the whole year, not just the 12 weeks?
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Known to be a 'party-boy'

kept flouting the AFL's hush hush agreement so they kept extending the ban, the fact is that no player has publicly recorded a strike across ~800 odd listed players. If it sounds like bullshit, looks like bullshit and smells like bullshit (which the fact of 0 out of 800 is) then it IS Bullshit.

My whole point is, I would not be surprised if the AFL is covering his indiscretions because thats what the AFL does.

Whether he has had some issues with his calves is up in the air. Yet for it to suddenly turn from an ~8 week injury or whatever it was being reported as to Season ending, and as it stands, he's still rumoured to be a while off debuting for Freo. Need i re-iterative my point about bullshit to do with his calf injuries?
 
So Freo are so committed to the cover-up they sent Bennell on a holiday to Germany to reward him for all this good behaviour?
 
Only thing I can get behind on here is the idea that Ross Lyon is really, really deflective. Some people see this as 'serious' or 'plays it with no pandering to the media' but to me he's like a kid: doesn't realise the media is part of his job, or only likes things done his way. He hates the media when they're against him; he's not anti-media, he's just really easily offended. Very defensive man.
 
Komrade_Tiger said:
the AFL likes to look like their strong on drugs when they are not, the whole point of the AFL code was to try and keep ASADA/WADA at arm's length.

I truly detest and despise the AFL on a number of fronts, and their attitude to offences of this nature do not fill me with any modicum of confidence. If they could have, we would have never heard of the Essendon 34. The point here is, that Bennell would not be the only player with alleged covered up strikes - Remember the rumours around Dayne Beams and his mysterious 'recurring injury' which "conveniently" was 12 weeks?
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Not a lot of professional sporting teams around the world that agree to "non match day" testing. AFL players do. World wide it's only match day.
Players association don't mention that. Wonder why.?
 
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