That would be our luck

[hulld]

Have a look at our injury list. All these guys we would love to see on the park. Scotty is our most important player, whilst the other guys are all kids who have immense talent and are likely to be the backbone of our side for the next 10 years.

Heath Hocking (groin) - indefinite
David Myers (hamstring) - 1 week
Scott Gumbleton (hamstring) - 2 weeks
Courtenay Dempsey (hamstring) - 3 weeks
Tom Hislop (wrist) - 4 weeks
Scott Lucas (knee) - 11 weeks

 

[Ari]

Every team has an injury list. It's up to our administration to be able to ensure we have depth in our list.

Lucas is the bad one. You can't cover that kind of injury. It's like 2006 with LLoyd all over again.

 

[Boris_Bewick]

Myers in hamstring trouble again? That's not the first time in his 6 months with the club

Hope to God we don't have to put up with another gun young player with constant hammy troubles

 

[monty1104]

Every team has an injury list. It's up to our administration to be able to ensure we have depth in our list.

Lucas is the bad one. You can't cover that kind of injury. It's like 2006 with LLoyd all over again.

Except one thing. In 2006, we had no one to cover for Lloyd. This year, we have McPhee, NLM, Gumby (eventually) and Welsh who if they all step up, can help fill the void of Lucas

 

[bomba4eva]

Have a look at our injury list. All these guys we would love to see on the park. Scotty is our most important player, whilst the other guys are all kids who have immense talent and are likely to be the backbone of our side for the next 10 years.

Heath Hocking (groin) - indefinite
David Myers (hamstring) - 1 week
Scott Gumbleton (hamstring) - 2 weeks
Courtenay Dempsey (hamstring) - 3 weeks
Tom Hislop (wrist) - 4 weeks
Scott Lucas (knee) - 11 weeks

When did Hislop injure his wrist? On the weekend? I thought Hocking was going to be right by next week?
Gumbleton is 100% but we are taking a conservative approach with him. Dont want to rush him back. Dempsey is a big loss. He'll be back within a month. Lucas' injury in past years would have destroyed us but we have some cover now even thought it isnt at the quality of him.

 

[Merv]

Where did the 4 weeks on Hislops wrist come from?

 

[Windas_Magic]

Where did the 4 weeks on Hislops wrist come from?

Someone did say he injured his wrist with Bendigo on the weekend but on the EFC website is sais his injury is being assessed. Other than Lucas, the others shoud be right in a few weeks

 

[bomba4eva]

Someone did say he injured his wrist with Bendigo on the weekend but on the EFC website is sais his injury is being assessed. Other than Lucas, the others shoud be right in a few weeks

Hoping it wasnt a break
Guess that rules him out for this week.....

 

[bomba4eva]

Wait a second...the Essendon site said that Gumbleton re-injured his hamstring...and will be right in 2 weeks...

 

[Windas_Magic]

Hoping it wasnt a break
Guess that rules him out for this week.....

This is Hislop we're talking about, he'd play even if every bone in his body was broken

 

[daffo]

Myers in hamstring trouble again? That's not the first time in his 6 months with the club

Hope to God we don't have to put up with another gun young player with constant hammy troubles

2nd... i would hate to see Myers have an injury prone career... his my new fav player

 

[Bombers42]

in my opinion the key to our season is an up and running midfield. Last year against geelong when we got a lot of injuries our run was killed hence the poor results followed.

 

[hateitorlovett13]

in my opinion the key to our season is an up and running midfield. Last year against geelong when we got a lot of injuries our run was killed hence the poor results followed.

Maybe so, but we showed with our delivery to Lloyd last week that there is a lot of improvement to be made in that department, and the skill levels of the players will have to rise as well. More targets would probably help our cause too, so that there aren't 3 defenders on one forward every time we kick it in to Lloyd and co.

 

[Schmick]

WTF!!!! Since when did Tommy Hislop get unjured? That's just f**ked

EDIT: Don't worry about answering that question, just read the rest of the thread.

 

[hulld]

Where did the 4 weeks on Hislops wrist come from?

sportal.com.au had an injury list for each club up. strange that they have 4 weeks for sloppy and the essendon website has TBA. hopefully sportal are mistaken with the length of the injury

 

[adamcf]

Scotty's injury could've been season ending so he's quite fortunate. It's a long season and as long as we can win a hand full of games while he's out, we should be ok.

 

[pazza]

Love to know how Tommy did the wrist - certainly can't recall anything happening in the match (unless he whacked a bloke in the melee....)

 

[Windas_Magic]

Scotty's injury could've been season ending so he's quite fortunate. It's a long season and as long as we can win a hand full of games while he's out, we should be ok.

It's never fortunate when you lose a key player for half the year

 

[adamcf]

Winda, he's fortunate because it wasn't season ending. No other reason.

 

[mick7]

just gotta hope that Scotty will be ok in 11 weeks!

in that time i just hope we win a few games in between.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Read in yesterdays Age that Dempsey could be back in 2 weeks as it was only a minor strain, good news but I hope they dont rush him back

 

[Kong]

This is Hislop we're talking about, he'd play even if every bone in his body was broken

i know hislop's a hard-at-it player, but dont know much else. is he supposed to be physically tough (glenn archer like)?

 

[Ari]

I think some of us need to be understand of soft tissue injuries at the moment.

We've a very young team and young guys tend to get more soft tissue, such as hamstrings, as they build into their body. It's a pain but it's something we'll have to work through. It's not necessarily the fault of our fitness staff or Quinny.