That’s a pretty dramatic over reaction.
I’d say the club is carefully managing a few things (Hobbs, Caddy, Shiel and Draper) to ensure that pretty much the whole squad is available come round one, or round two at worst.
It’s a long year, missing a practice match doesn’t hurt. Certainly not as much as getting hurt in a practice match.
It’s amazing how much you are across, almost like you do it full-time.
Non Essendon injury post here but imagine my shock at seeing Brayden Preuss, Nathan Kreuger and Caleb Marchbank all on their club’s injury lists. Some things never change.
I don’t, but I have a business interest in S&C and one of my former colleagues is a S&C coach with an NRL club and we chat regularly.
I also used to work in a similar’ish environment with injury potential and rehab programs and a fair few of the guys have gone on to making S&C/physical preparednesses their living so you get to see how things like this are not as absolute or defined as we might hope.
Preuss must be one of the biggest wage thiefs in the game, along with our dud of a list manager.
I don’t need to know the ins and outs of every single players injury but what does annoy me, is blatant lying. Example - they would have known kelly did his hamstring. Instead of saying “kelly has hamstring awareness” (we do this a fair bit) just say - that player has a minor hamstring strain and will miss the short term.
I think when we say stuff like awareness, a knock, blah blah - it just sets us up for critisism when that player ends up missing a month
Apparently hamstring awareness is a medical term.
What is hamstring awareness?
Hamstring “awareness”, alternative to tightness, is used to indicate a feeling of less than an injury in the hamstring but can also feel like one is about to happen. This pain is generally referred from the lumbar spine and can often indicate an over stretch of the tissues around the area.
Lets be honest, we’re doing it because we think we are smart. But we’re not
It’s better to under promise and over deliver. We do the opposite when it comes to injuries. I can’t see any benefit at all in continually underplaying the severity of injuries. It’s certainly not fooling anyone.
I can’t remember a time when the club was fully transparent and went out of their way to make the members feel welcome.
We have seen them do some serious brown nosing to certain media people though.
In the old days a minor hamstring used to be called a “virus.”
When you’re in your seventies and for the first time in your life you realise you’ve got them and they may become a problem! 
I thought it was once your in your 40’s and you need to tie your shoe laces.
Life goes: velcro, laces, velcro.
I went from Velcro to slipons!
fark me, you find a lot to whinge about these days.
this early in the season, players can feel hamstring tightness (that’s awareness), they haven’t torn anything, but they go thru a standard rehab to rebuild strength, wait for the pain to subside so it feels like a normal hamstring - ie you don’t know you have one - to ensure they don’t tear it this early in the season.
it’s called injury prevention.
I’m going through the same thing, albeit in a different sport, at a marginally lower level.
Thanks dr ewok
Can a number of those players play VFL this week?
Kelly on the wing with Heppell and Laverde in defence 
