Yep I agree here. Hes always gone on about repaying the club in this way and hes decided (most likely) to fark off. Im annoyed he is going but he can p*ss off the snake
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Would we be âhappierâ Drapes going home instead of to Brisbane?
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We didnt low ball him, our offer was very lucturative, brisbane had just a tad bit more with a extra year.
Iâd say it was a cautious initial offer in view of the Achilles rupture- stands to reason when you consider players like Wingard never really recovered only a few years ago. And Drapes does have that ACL injury on his card from an innocuous boundary throw in.
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Excuse me Mr Pedantic. Live Streams. There is that better
No, because Crows wonât pay anywhere near enough to get band 1
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One of Bryan or Draper would leave down the track anyway to be the no.1 ruckman
Keeping Draper is the safe option and âsafeâ is not the right way to go with the state weâre in currently
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Heâs repaying by providing a 1st rounder. Not too many others that could provide this
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Big Sammy will need to lose some weight, and change his ruck style to involve less jumping, less trying to sell candy, like Nank. Trouble is thats at a time when the AFL are signalling moving more towards rules to make ruckmen jump more.
Perhaps I am a worry wart, but a ruckman doing an achilles, itâs not like he is a flea like Wingard.
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This is from a Medline-indexed journal, 2022 - is it still true, @Eastie_Boi1 ?
Persistent muscle weakness, tendon elongation, and incomplete return to preinjury level are frequent sequelae after acute Achilles tendon rupture, and evidence-based knowledge of how to best rehabilitate the injury is largely absent in the literature. [âŚ] The patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) data in the literature suggest that the recovery takes longer than 6 months (ATRS, 70 out of 100), that one-year postinjury, the ATRS only reaches 82, and that this does not appear to noticeably improve thereafter.
Iâve said since day 1 that the Achilles is the biggest unknown in all of this . Draper was already a tricky one to put a contract value on , and the Achilles injury just multiplies that. Youâre betting on him recovering well, and then youâre also betting on him continuing cashing in on the potential that we finally started to see early this year. How you navigate that is incredibly difficult.
Itâs interesting that WD thinks a deal was close last year, but then it fell over. I wonder how we valued him at that point, and I wonder why he didnât sign at that point. Perhaps he backed himself in to have a huge 2025 and substantially up his contract worth.
I also wonder if he blames the medical department for the calf thing / Achilles rupture - especially with every other injury and subsequent re-injury we copped - and he was determined to leave from that point anyway.
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Didnât he make a comment about really knuckling down and getting himself right as it was a contract year? Or something like that? I seem to remember a quote about this and thinking that he is another one who waits for a contract year before doing what is required.
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Not sure if he specifically mentioned a contract year, but yeah, I think I read something on those lines.
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Donât want again lol
The have done many studies on NBA players in past and I believe they have reported upwards of 24% decrease in power, leap following achilles ruptures. Quite considerable. And I know we give our club zero credit in the field of biomechanics and S&C but donât be surprised if this type of research is taken into consideration when assessing future contracts. Sports Scientist base their theories and regimes around these studies.
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I donât think it was like that, more that it was another reason he was so disappointed with getting the injury⌠âI was happy, felt good, I was flying, it was a contract year, and then the Achillesâ type of thing.
If thatâs the case, hes not the good bloke I have been sold on. Ongoing in depth, feel good rehab videos he has been posting throughout his recovery indicate hes all for getting back into it. And the theme is all about catching up with his bombers mates, back at the club, here I am, big Sam the club man fans, stick with me im working my arse off, cant wait to get out there. If hes been â going â since July, then seriously why would you go to a lot of trouble to put those vids out? The majority of people who watch his posts are fans, kids, people who are invested in his rehabilitation and recovery as Essendon people. If he goes, jeepers it takes the cake as far as fark you lot, sucked in. I like Drapes, do I know him personally? Nope, but I wouldnt of thought hed be the type to walk IF the club have told him they see him as a need, solution to the big picture etc. and offered him fair $ given his leg snapped in 2 this season. If the club have treated him poorly behind closed doors, told him hes not supported, then I can see his justification for going, just stop stringing us along please. Unfortunately we are all (and I assume it speak for the majority) not afforded the luxury of bailing on the club, as we have FITH syndrome and cannot break free. Apologies in advance if my punctuation, grammar offends anyone, im only 6.
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Before the season started, not after his injury.
My understanding is that the Adelaide offer is for less money. We wonât get band 1 if he goes home.
Not in Samâs eyes it wasnât.