News Sam Hayes signs for North Melbourne VFL

[Macca19]

This is truly shattering news. Hopefully he can recover well and put some muscle on in the gym

 

[Doctor Feel]

This is the ******* worst. How ******* bad is football at the moment for everyone in or around PAFC.

 

[ROBBBO]

bad luck young fella, come back even better like the Doogs did

 

[Pablo Escobar]

The couple of times I have seen him this year in the Maggie’s I have been really impressed. Has showed a lot of natural strength against bigger more mature bodies. Does anyone know if taller guys have a greater susceptibility to doing ACLs again as opposed to average height guys?

 

[Visenfest]

I'd say "f**k this year, wake me up once it's over" but I say that every year now.

 

[Adz2332]

God damn
Of all the people.
Stuffs up his next season as well.
What we down to? Ryder and frampton for this and next year

 

[rumoursofwinter]

So s**t. Football is unkind. Get around the kid.

 

[PAFC66]

The reason we need to sign or trade for a mature body ruckman who could step into the side in 2019.

Unbelievable we didn't last year.. absolute incompetence

 

[HaroldOliver]

s**t luck.
Often, recently, I hate football.
Come back bigger and better than ever Sam.

 

[PAFC66]

He’s not ready

Should delist him then.

 

[Portmanteau]

With new modern medical technology the DREADED ACL doesn’t seem the disaster that it once was.

A feisty band of heroes, led by club doctor Mark Fisher, will lead a brave RECOVERY, in order to facilitate Hayes’ quick return to the weights room.

Elsewhere, the club has deployed one of its top officers, GEORGE COSTANZA, to intercept a digital record of the birth certificates of local juniors hoping to find his next apprentice was in fact born in a former Soviet republic...

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Should delist him then.

He was playing better footy under the Chad just sayin'

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

Not good. All the best for a smooth recovery.

 

[MarcMaverick]

That's terrible news. A Few days from his birthday too. Hope he makes a full recovery.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

FFS. He's so bloody promising as well.

He still is it's just a setback he did look ahead of the curve in terms of a young ruck debuting before we all die but it still wasn't as close as some thought I suspect, he'll get back.

 

[Portmanteau]

He was playing better footy under the Chad just sayin'

Whomst’d?

 

[Waspy79]

Should delist him then.

I was being cynical. I’ve never seen the guy play.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Whomst’d?

Frampton

 

[Portmanteau]

Average ACLs per club per year .5 - 1.0~

2012 - Gray
2014 - Colquhoun
2016 - Howard
2018 - Hartlett, Hayes

It seems to me we’ve done alright in recent years as compared to the days of losing Francou, Primus, Wilson, Paxman et al. We always seemed to cop one to a top 10 player at the worst time.

 

[Portmanteau]

Frampton

Sorry mate I got mixed up due to the uh, ignored content, thought you were referring to Hayes

 

[jdeezy]

That sucks, good luck to the lad.

But hey at least the good news is we've got plenty of ruck depth right guys

 

[portly]

Bugga. Use the time wisely Sam and come back strong.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Ah * it. I have enjoyed watching Sam take on much more experienced ruckmen during his first season of league football and look right at home.

Just a shitty thing to happen to a promising young player.

Here's to Sam doing a Doogie, smashing through his rehab and bouncing back halfway through next season.

Looks like we will be raking over the leftover rucks this off season.

 

[mic59]

The reason we need to sign or trade for a mature body ruckman who could step into the side in 2019.

Unbelievable we didn't last year.. absolute incompetence

There weren't any ruckman trades made in 2017 but in 2016 there were multiple trades made for experienced ruckmen, two of whom are doing very well now. Nathan Vardy went from Geelong to West Coast for pick 72. His injury history may have put us off and he is not doing much now as they have both Naitanui and Lycett fit. Witts went from Collingwood to Gold Coast for 44 and 62 and is carrying their rucks well. He won the rucks against us in Shanghai. Nankervis went from Sydney to Richmond for 46. That was the year we took Powell-Pepper and Marshall but we also had picks 32 and 33 that we used on Atley and Drew. We should have had no problem trading for a ruckman with one of those picks. We could even have traded a pick in the 30s for two later picks and used one of them on a ruckman and one on another player. There were some good late picks in the 2016 draft.

So we could quite possibly have traded for a ruckman in the 2016 draft and still had four picks as we did.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

* terrible news for Sam. Bloody hell we have signed him up for 4 years and half way thru the first one he has to write off 12 months. Had some good games and showed he has enough talent to progress to play AFL.