2023 Injury updates and news

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It doesn’t matter if we’ve been one of the worst in the league for injury management (even when it’s highlighted by our own external & internal reviews!), just so long as we can always point to another club that’s had it worse lol

That’s unfortunately how low the bar is for so many Bomber fans these days.

Given there have been no significant changes to our medical department over the off-season, it really shouldn’t be a surprise that fans are keeping a close close eye on how things go this year.

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Brisbane and Sydney probably doing PEDS (joke)

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Update - 13th of Feb

  • Reid - (Back) “stress” injury, long term (12 weeks, which he is 9 weeks into). Hasn’t started running but is now doing some movement drills on the oval
  • Stewart - (Foot) Running at a good pace, doing some leading drills. Looks to be moving freely now
  • Cox - (Back) Just doing modified training with some light running now
  • Tsatas - (Knee) surgery 6 -8 weeks (aiming for rd 4/5 return)
  • Weideman - (Quad) back in full training
  • Hind - (Quad) back in full training
  • Wright - (Calf) back in full training
  • Stringer (Back soreness) back in full training
  • Guelfi (Calf) rehab training, light running, 2 to 3 weeks is the indication
  • Hobbs (Calf) left training early last week, missed Bendigo camp and only did handball warm up today. Clubs says he will miss the next few weeks of training
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Seen worse.

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Give it time.

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Nice to read that Reid is “moving”!

So apparently not dead.

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Only to be back in rehab

Any chance Hayes could bypass Reid?

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Hayes? He’s that bloke you were vocal about not wanting us to draft cos he was a tall. Well here we are a few months on… Can you see why we drafted him now?

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Munkara - Hammy recovery back to part training sessions, still needs to improve fitness
J Davey - likely still months away from full training, given training reports and our conservative treatment coming back from 2nd acl. understandable I guess. He would be hoping he gets that non contact hat sooner rather than later.

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Fair point but i wasn’t a fan of drafting Ried eithier waste of a top 10 pick on a tall imo. if we didn’t pick him reckon Reid would have slid to a mid teens pick or early second round

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Heard Guelfi was a proper calf injury and is already ruled out for round one.

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Hobbs injured, and no prizes for guessing. CALF. Expected to miss the next few weeks…

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We can add Hobbs to the Sean Murphy calf victims list

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Poo.

At this rate we will have a team full of players who have had intrupted pre seasons

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whats a proper calf injury?
most afl players are back in 3-4 weeks if they do one in the season.

parish missed 2 games after knock to the calf, then after 1 match played, missed 4 with a calf injury.

Perkins missed 4 weeks with a calf strain

Ryder missed the last 4 games with a calf strain

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Lowest to highest gradings of calf injuries
AFL standard knock to calf - 2 weeks
AFL standard calf strain - 4 weeks
Essendon calf knock - 4 weeks
AFL standard proper calf injury - 6-8 weeks
Essendon calf strain - 6-8 weeks
Essendon proper calf injury - He’s dead

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Another soft tissue, never change Essendon

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Absolutely disgraceful

Another soft tissue inury to a young player

Medical Dept is a joke

One of the richest clubs in Australia that continues to flounder in its resourcing

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Heard on the app while at work.

Here for the meltdowns.

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So he did it on Wed Feb 1st and our first game is Sunday March 19th. That’s 6 and a half weeks apart. Must have been a bad one!

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