Player Watch Sid Draper

[Kane McGoodwin]

Surely just a coincidence that word spreads about his groin issue and a day later he appeared at his first training session.

Then disappeared again.

We need to give him a serious rest to get him right, rather than dragging this out.

 

[Jarman3]

Did he have these injury issues when we drafted him? Or have they developed over the past year?

 

[tiggsy]

Did he have these injury issues when we drafted him? Or have they developed over the past year?

I seem to recall he had a history of overtraining injuries in his draft year

 

[Ham]

For whatever its worth, ROB seems to not think Draper's injury is too concerning and should be right round 1.

 

[FR0GGY]

Then disappeared again.

We need to give him a serious rest to get him right, rather than dragging this out.

There’s no lingering groin issues

 

[Syd Crow]

There’s no lingering groin issues
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[Jarman3]

There’s no lingering groin issues
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[dogs105]

no timeline on groin issue, he aint playing in 2026

He may never play again...

 

[Crow till I die]

There’s no lingering groin issues
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I was hoping we would never need to relive the B Crouch saga again.

B Crouch listed as injured 3 weeks, 2 weeks go by and the change it to B Crouch 4 weeks..I was thinking but it was 3 weeks and we had already gone through 2 of them so shouldn't it have been 1 week, not 4? then as that 4 week period elapsed, they changed it again and then mid stream change it to indefinite. THE most frustrating thing as a supporter that was keen as mustard to see him back in the side. They were about as accurate with him and his injury as the weather bureau is on a long range forecast..ie your guess is as good as mine

 

[1970crow]

I was hoping we would never need to relive the B Crouch saga again.

B Crouch listed as injured 3 weeks, 2 weeks go by and the change it to B Crouch 4 weeks..I was thinking but it was 3 weeks and we had already gone through 2 of them so shouldn't it have been 1 week, not 4? then as that 4 week period elapsed, they changed it again and then mid stream change it to indefinite. THE most frustrating thing as a supporter that was keen as mustard to see him back in the side. They were about as accurate with him and his injury as the weather bureau is on a long range forecast..ie your guess is as good as mine

They torched Matt’s as well.

 

[AFC979810]

Were we also “overawed” when we only managed to beat 2 of the worst performing sides in decades by a couple of goals late in the season? Yep, playing Roos and Eagles must have caused quite a bit of stage fright amongst the group.

But “every win is a good win” and “you never change a winning team” right Kristof.

Dude. North Melbourne (who we beat) drew with Brisbane and lost to the Dockers by a single goal.

No team has had a perfect season. It's a weird thing that you keep going back to the fact that we only won against shit teams by a couple of goals.

 

[Jcpdragonx]

He may never play again...

just sayn these thing can go for 1 year+ if they dont respond in the short term

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Underwhelming in his first 2 sanfl games.

 

[Peter Doherty]

Underwhelming in his first 2 sanfl games.

I haven't seen either game, can you elaborate?

 

[Cromulant]

I haven't seen either game, can you elaborate?

Playing managed minutes, clearly a way off fitness wise and doesnt look 100% in his body which is leading to some errors.

He'll be fine

 

[1970crow]

Underwhelming in his first 2 sanfl games.

He is returning from groin injury. I’ll admit that having a pick 4 mid have to develop his game in the 2s is a concern, but it’s reasonable to wait a few rounds until he’s actually match fit before critiquing the kid.

 

[1970crow]

Playing managed minutes, clearly a way off fitness wise and doesnt look 100% in his body which is leading to some errors.

He'll be fine

Uh oh. I was comfortable until you posted that he’ll be fine.

 

[Cromulant]

Uh oh. I was comfortable until you posted that he’ll be fine.

Yeah I thought you'd like that.

But seriously he's coming off a long lay-off from a groin issue. Itll take some time to get it all back. No need to rush the kid.

 

[1970crow]

Yeah I thought you'd like that.

But seriously he's coming off a long lay-off from a groin issue. Itll take some time to get it all back. No need to rush the kid.

Agree, but it’s not hard to understand posters’ concern. On principle, I reckon developing in the SANFL does nothing but develop a SANFL player. If you don’t get out quick, you don’t get out.

 

[Cromulant]

Agree, but it’s not hard to understand posters’ concern. On principle, I reckon developing in the SANFL does nothing but develop a SANFL player. If you don’t get out quick, you don’t get out.

I reckon theyll pick him soon enough, we do seem to push our high end picks up a lot quicker than we do others.

SANFL side doesnt play next week which is a shame.

 

[daniel_4tw]

He was always going to need a decent run to get his fitness and conditioning up. I wouldn’t expect him the team for at least another month.

Nothing to stress about, yet, but you’d hope he has a good back half of the year.

 

[cleanhands]

 

[Crow till I die]

Yeah I thought you'd like that.

But seriously he's coming off a long lay-off from a groin issue. Itll take some time to get it all back. No need to rush the kid.

Give him a block of 8-10 games at SANFL level along with his fitness program and fingers crossed he will be looking at cracking the AFL side 2nd half of the year. Most important to make damn sure his groin injury is resolved properly for the long term

 

[cleanhands]

Playing managed minutes, clearly a way off fitness wise and doesnt look 100% in his body which is leading to some errors.

He'll be fine

I’m not sure he’s going to reach the heights most are hoping

 

[Mutineer]

Underwhelming in his first 2 sanfl games.

Got better as the game went on last night, obviously still lacking match fitness and touch.
Just needs a decent run at it and he'll be fine.
If anything his biggest problem at present is he appears to be trying too hard to impress just needs to settle and his natural ball winning capabilities will return.