I really hope the answer to soft tissue injuries is a simple as this.
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There’s a big problem. Burgess won’t become available until after the Crows finish up this season. Which puts it at about the time FA/trade week starts. We also need someone in place when we do finish up this season before the players break so the new fitness team can instruct the players on what to do fitness wise before they come back in November. That’s why the likelihood of getting Burgess is a long shot - unless he resigns before the end of the season, which I doubt he would do.
I count 16 LTIs this year. I’ve grouped them as below -
Soft tissue (recurrence)
- Zach Reid
- Jordan Ridley
- Matt Guelfi
- Kyle Langford
- Darcy Parish
- Xavier Duursma
- Jye Caldwell (previous soft tissue, now a contact injury)
- Mason Redman
- Saad El-Hawli (only player in this group who hasn’t suffered repeat soft tissue injuries??)
ACLs, contact injuries, stress related injury
10. Sam Draper
11. Ben McKay
12. Nick Bryan
13. Lewis Hayes
14. Jayden Nguyen
15. Harrison Jones
16. Nik Cox
The concern has to be more focused around the first group.
I rate Caldwell a success, given he arrived with potentially career-ending hamstring problems but has been durable in recent years.
Zack Reid is a very different challenge relative to the older players with recurring STIs. We don’t even know if Reid has an AFL-durable body. He’s the most important player on the list and needs his own Royal Commission.
Saad’s injury adds to the overall injury list but is not an outlier - yet.
I think the major concern of a systemic problem in the HP dept is due to repeat soft tissue injuries to these 6 players -
- Jordan Ridley
- Matt Guelfi
- Kyle Langford
- Darcy Parish
- Xavier Duursma
- Mason Redman
There must be some common causes of injury to the 6 above which will point to specific problems that we can solve with the program and/or personnel.
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If Burgess is available next February, I’d build a plan around him starting in February. Not ideal but he’s the bloke they need to attract.
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First off, the correct answer is Darren Bewick.
Secondly, we don’t get a pass for his Achilles injury IMO. He reported calf issues and was sent back on, only to have his tendon cannon in to his knee 3 minutes later.
Negligence of the highest order.
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Also:
Teehee
maybe, maybe not.
players play with niggles very very often.
was he or the Dr meant to know that this niggle was different?
don’t understand your other points.
I mean, I guess what teams need is a group of people employed who have a body of knowledge surrounding injury prevention and tell-tale signs of impending trauma so that perhaps they can be prevented, or even managed in advance to ensure they don’t happen.
We should try it.
That’s not a problem. We’re not trying to solve our issues in a single preseason. This will take a few preseasons to really see the benefits. This should always be looked at with a long term lens.
You can’t predict an Achilles rupture, especially on the opposite leg of the sore calve
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All things can be predicted, with enough data. That is part of sports science.
I’m willing, albeit grudgingly, to partially concede on the minor issue of the injury occuring on the opposite leg.
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I ruptured my achilles 3 years ago. No warning , no tightness or any other symptoms. Went to take off to run and it went bang
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Were you talking to Brad Scott before hand? Or even thinking about him?
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Did your run commence at the Hangar?
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The bigger issue is reoccurance and that’s of course rehabilitation and not fixing the root cause - It’s obviously stuffed
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Whats it like??
There are plenty of indoor sports that require a ton of running where players dont do soft tissue injuries, so im confused as to what the difference is.
Club went and got Burgess
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Great. We already missed a turn when we got Dank, who then spun a “bankrupt”.
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Bring in baby John
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I found it very hard. The ‘grass’ is really advanced in texture. It had sort of sand as a base. I’m just guessing but it makes sense as a line of enquiry in a thorough review.