They only said hamstring awareness so I guess that’s minor? Oh wait ….
Didn’t Draper have a sore ankle or thigh on one side then over compensated on his opposite leg and ruptured his Achilles ?
Thats not what Barham said at all.
Unfortunately, we have had an extensive injury list this season, some of which is made up of injuries that we can categorise as bad luck. 3 ACL’s, a torn Achilles and an ongoing concussion issue, are just that, bad luck. Likewise, that a lot of our injuries are to our taller players, again just bad luck.
He is saying that ACL, Concussion and Achilles injuries are bad luck. He’s also separately saying that its bad luck that a lot of our injuries are to tall players instead of a mix of different heights as it would make it easier to balance the team ect.
He is not saying that all injuries are ‘just bad luck’
However, we are taking our current injury position very seriously and are determined to do all the necessary work needed to improve in this important area.
I would guess from this that the club is going to be making changes at the end of the year to try and reduce injuries but he cant just come out and say everything they want to do in the middle of the year.
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If a large cohort of injured players shares a similar attribute that can’t be written off entirely to bad luck.
Of course it is different, what a ridiculous statement.
VFL is lower intensity, lower kms, and you can chose to play reduced minutes.
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So you’re telling me no player has ever re-injured themselves playing VFL? What a ridiculous statement…
No. Do we need a freshen up on the English language?
There is a reduced risk of injury in the VFL. That does not mean he cannot obtain an injury in the VFL. See how these 2 things are different?
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Give them all a stint in the VFL and keep playing the same kids.
Our season is cooked anyway, so the young blokes may as well gain some experience.
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Don’t patronise me. I see it differently to you. I say the risk of injury vs the reward of him playing AFL is worth it and I wouldn’t bother playing him in the VFL. If you don’t agree just say so and move on…
‘Don’t patronise me’
‘Do we need a freshen up’
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Is this a statistical truth?
Genuinely curious, not looking to freshen up.
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Like they’re all male?
Calf I thought.
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Good question.
There is an abundance of data around injury list and acute:chronic workload which is largely what the reduced minutes in the VFL would be about achieving. So on that front, I would say yes it is.
However I’d suspect you’d want to know directly the stats on injury rates in the VFL vs AFL. This would be available somewhere, but wouldn’t be the right comparison to look at.
What we’d really want to see, would be injury rate of AFL listed players playing in the VFL vs playing in the AFL. I don’t think that is going to be readily available, but the clubs would have it.
From a simplistic perspective for 2025, how many of our injuries have occured in game in the VFL? Sweet FA. We have, at least 2/3 of the side would be AFL listed players.
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Would be interesting. You’d have to factor in AFL games played against VFL, obviously if you play 10 AFL and 1 VFL you’d be more likely to do yourself a mischief at the top level, all other things being equal. Which of course, they’re not, particularly in pace.
Also consider the likelihood of injury if a player was instructed to go 3/4 intensity in an AFL game, which hopefully they are not.
Probably too many qualitative factors to determine this scientifically, although I’m sure @theDJR could do it standing in his head eating HOT CHIPS
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Luckily I’m not interested in that.
However, I do note that the only AFLW game (season) that Nanscawen missed was due to an injury in the VFLW in some pointless match. That’s enough for me; ban the lower leagues.
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Also the upper leagues.
Player welfare is paramount.
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FFS. That’s ridiculous
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Parish is contracted til 2029 fyi