Playing injured

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Exactly. There is a very good reason he is such a successful coach.

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Do people forget about laverde?

He reported to certain people his hamstring was tight, and then they put him out on the park anyway. And he fkd it. You don’t have to be a doctor, physician, to work out that’s a POOR decision in a meangless pre season run about with a bloke who is injury prone.

I’ve made my thoughts clear on Daniher in other threads

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New thread-athon continues.

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The fans would be ignorant to about half the injuries in the AFL. Players play with things every season and you never hear about most of them until after the fact, if even at all

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Mark Neeld injures the players and then makes them play injured.

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That’s the impression I’m getting.

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If we were still in the finals hunt he’d be playing this week.

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is anyone surprised when bruce reid is still the club doctor ?

swear it’s like watching monty pythons, it’s only a flesh wound, you’ll be right.

Our club slogan should never have been, whatever it takes. it should always be, meh we’ll wait and see how it goes.

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It’s funny how Blitz (mostly correctly) bags the communication specialists for their lack of knowledge about our club… but then think we know anything about other clubs.

You would be naïve in the extreme to think they don’t get every other club just as wrong… and then we rely on their statements to make big comparisons here.

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Surely this is some form of negligence from the club? This is beyond pathetic.

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That ain’t a theoretical phenomenon. But I am going to be boring people big-time quoting that name now.

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The media would leave you to believe Luke Hodge is a good bloke. We all know better.

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Medical staff are still trying to find their way around the Essendon brand of medical…ummm…ness.

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They never recovered from losing their fridge.

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If that’s true then our medical staff can’t have read much literature published in the last 20 years on injury risk factors.

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How the actual fark does a player develop the dreaded ™ OP in this day and age?

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Aren’t injuries a bit more complicated then this thread makes out? Players arn’t neatly divided into ‘INJURED’ and ‘NOT INJURED’ categories…

Yes - there are obvious broken limb/torn muscle injuries where you don’t play - but after that, there is an endless grey area of soreness, overuse, tightness, stress-related pains, tendinitis etc… where it isn’t clear exactly when you should play or when you shouldn’t - and for how long you should rest. Football is high impact and I would imagine that nearly every player has some level of soreness or area of chronic overuse dating back to their junior days.

If you never played a ‘sore’ player - we would have three quarters of our team out for the entire year… It’s about management, assessing risk, and making hard decisions based around the complexity of the human body, and those decisions will end up being wrong some of the time (and there have been two recent obvious bad ones in hindsight) - whereas we have no idea of all the other times when the decision was right.

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Any injury , no matter how small or insignificant should be treated the same in relation to, does it allow you to compete in all facets of the current modern day game ?
And how muxh will it restrict you if you cant.

Alot of danihers game is based on athleticism, so an injury that restricted that shoule have seen him not playing earlier.

People say hindsight is a wonderful thing, and maybe playing him at the start was ok.

But it took way too long, and may too many poor efforts before they bit the bullet.
I pointed out many times during games he was barely moving and just standing there and pointing to kick it to him, yet he cant outmuscle a fly and cos of injury couldn’t jump foe a mark.

Us plebs could see that by rd , so what the ■■■■ were the coaches seeing ?
People crap on they know more cos they are in the inner sanctum.
Wwll they knew he had an injury, they hopefully could see he was struggling, so why did it take 7 weeks for them to make a decision on gicing him a break ?

Effort is what wins you games more often than not, sp why was he and probably a few others picked this season while having i juries that restrict their effort ?

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meh. your play your best .

easy to say dont play a guy with a niggle.

who do you replace them with? who is on the list beating the door down.

its never about dropping players. its about promoting and rewarding good form in the seconds.

thats one thing I like about Worsfold. takes a very much earn your spot approach.