Mini Ambulance

[mr snip]

Waht is the use of having this portable golf cart if it's not going to be used. It was obvious Hentschell wasn't coming straight back on when the two trainers decided to do yhe slow walk to the other side of the ground.
My concern with this is that, the Umpires have no obligation to stop the game and we are consequently one player down for this period of time it takes to remove the player from the field.
Whether they took it into account that we were having a shot at goal when they decided to carry him off, I don't know.
In a close game this could go against you as it took a good couple of minutes to get him off, and we all know it doesn't take long to transfer the ball from one end of the ground to the other to kick a goal
Thoughts?

 

[macca23]

Originally posted by mr snip
My concern with this is that, the Umpires have no obligation to stop the game and we are consequently one player down for this period of time it takes to remove the player from the field.
Whether they took it into account that we were having a shot at goal when they decided to carry him off, I don't know.
In a close game this could go against you as it took a good couple of minutes to get him off, and we all know it doesn't take long to transfer the ball from one end of the ground to the other to kick a goal
Thoughts?

I thought exactly as you did. WTF are they doing that for when if they used the ambulance, play would stop and there was no chance of being a man short.

Strange decision indeed.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

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Originally posted by macca23
I thought exactly as you did. WTF are they doing that for when if they used the ambulance, play would stop and there was no chance of being a man short.

Strange decision indeed.

Isn't it the case if you go off by stretcher (in this case ambulance) you can't come back on for 20mins?

Iam guessing they accessed Hentschells injury to be minor and carried him off to avoid a possible 20min delay in getting back on the ground?

 

[tribey]

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Originally posted by Wayne's-World
Iam guessing they accessed Hentschells injury to be minor and carried him off to avoid a possible 20min delay in getting back on the ground?

That he couldn't take his shot for goal and walk off was minor?

A minor injury is one you can run off - Hentschel could not take his kick (a shot for goal no less, most players would dismiss the trainers if their bellend was falling off in that situation) and could not walk off the ground.

A stretcher/mini ambulance would have been the sensible option.

 

[MaccasNeighbour]

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Originally posted by dyertribe
That he couldn't take his shot for goal and walk off was minor?

A minor injury is one you can run off - Hentschel could not take his kick (a shot for goal no less, most players would dismiss the trainers if their bellend was falling off in that situation) and could not walk off the ground.

A stretcher/mini ambulance would have been the sensible option.

I think the trainers simply weren't sure at that point and decided to carry him off just in case he needed to come back. Interestingly by the next quarter he was running up and down the boundary line and didn't seem to be in any discomfort. The fact that we were 10 goals up by that point probably meant they weren't going to take any chances with him and didn't bring him back.

 

[Fergus]

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Originally posted by MaccasNeighbour
I think the trainers simply weren't sure at that point and decided to carry him off just in case he needed to come back. Interestingly by the next quarter he was running up and down the boundary line and didn't seem to be in any discomfort. The fact that we were 10 goals up by that point probably meant they weren't going to take any chances with him and didn't bring him back.

If he couldn't even hobble off assisted by trainers then I think the likelihood of him returning quickly was very remote. The sensible option would have been to use the ambulance.
From an OH&S point of view surely the AFC would prefer that the mini ambulance is used as opposed to two trainers carrying a 90kg bloke in an awkward position quite a distance.

 

[naughty monkey]

never underestimate what a jab of the good stuff can do.

 

[MarksGirl-kbcrowgirl]

That fat little trainer would have LOVED to get to drive the cart onto the oval to pick up Trent - and it he didn't want to - I would ;D

k
xx

 

[Jerome]

I agree the mini ambulence should have been used to assist Trent.

Just for some clarification, why is it then when a player is injured and cant walk off without assistance, do they have to exit the ground via the interchange gate?

I thought they had changed it so that if a player is injured, he could just cross over the boundry line and go around the boundry to the bench/rooms?