#15 Jayden Laverde - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝕃𝔸𝕍 (Part 1)

[TeeBee]

Tiring isn’t!

[wimmera1]

There’s a couple of pokemon role-players…

[Birdy2Laverde]

What’s the ideal girth to leg ratio?

1 girth to two legs, I think.

[IceTemple]

1 girth to two legs, I think.

@Heather_Mills might disagree

[JohnRain]

That’s what she said.

p.s. Replied to the wrong person @Crazy_Bomber

[goon_squad]

Tried to have a go, hard to find any good info though. Might be missing some but my summary is:

• 2019 - hamstring, ankle
• 2018 - hamstring x2 plus 1 unknown (VFL injury semi final)
• 2017 - ankle (vs Geelong)
• 2016- shoulder (vs Geelong)

So my take is 3 soft tissue injuries (all hamstrings, 2 short and 1 major 10 weeks) and 3 impact injuries (1 short and 2 major).

Clearly the hammies are a weakness and all in the last 2 years

[premature_rookie_ele]

Didn’t sound like it was anything major, most likely a very conservative approach. I suspect it was from a change in direction on the bowls club side near the boundary line (29:40 in the replay) but he was still on the ground 1.5 mins later and jogging round. Made a diving mark attempt near the bench, then came off at 31:10. Commentary suggested that it wasn’t much since he looked fine in a number of run throughs on the boundary line, was looking very angry that they wouldn’t let him out.

So maybe they were being precautionary and hoping he would be ok for the Geelong game?

Tl;dr version,

HE’S COOKED

[Laverde2Langford]

Any actual news on injury status?

[Houli_Dooli]

So maybe they were being precautionary and hoping he would be ok for the Geelong game?

I don’t think so.

imagine if they played him and he did his hammy in the first quarter, this place would be in melt down.

Surely he is no chance to play against Geelong.
Would imagine minimum 2 weeks even if its the lowest grade hamstring.

[saladin]

Even the mildest hammy , given his history, will see him miss the 21 day/3 week minimum.

[mdso]

Might have the potential but the body having trouble with the rigours of the sport.

[Clone_Hirdy]

I don’t recommend that you google this question.

[daf]

feel really sorry for him. We just want to see Lav get through a season without any injuries.

[Clone_Hirdy]

I remember as a kid, players used to only miss 3 weeks with hammy’s. I heard the other day that it was after MRI’s came in that they miss 6+ weeks.

My Question is, why not get rid of the MRI?

[Speedy_Gonzales]

Crowe mentioned this earlier in year.

That in past 3wk hammy common but because they weren’t able to see if it was tendon related then was far greater likelihood of immediate reoccurrence.

Now with MRI know for sure so able to assess more accurately, and more appropriate healing time frame.

[Laverde2Langford]

Additionally, you can’t play the modern game unless you can do at least 10km and regularly hit 100% top speed.

10-15 years ago if Michael Voss or James Hird were injured you could plonk them in the square for the match. Does not work anymore.

[HirdMentality]

Early Tayte Pears would have been made for today’s game.

He could have been anything.

Laverde comparisons to Winderlich are getting clearer by the day

[Clone_Hirdy]

Crowe mentioned this earlier in year.

That in past 3wk hammy common but because they weren’t able to see if it was tendon related then was far greater likelihood of immediate reoccurrence.

Now with MRI know for sure so able to assess more accurately, and more appropriate healing time frame.

Thanks Speedy. That’s where I heard it too.

I wonder what the stats are around whether they re-occur less often now?

[Clone_Hirdy]

10-15 years ago if Michael Voss or James Hird were injured you could plonk them in the square for the match. Does not work anymore.

Disagree. Geelong did it with Danger last year after he hurt his leg. He kicked like 15 goals or something.

[Speedy_Gonzales]

Probably hard to gauge as the running demands of the players are greater than ever now