All is want is transparency from the club when to comes to injuries
I get it, but does it really matter at this point though?
We know players like parish and Ridley are increasingly injury prone and that repeat injuries are pretty normal at efc.
Our injury management success stories are few and far between.
If the established guys can get back and stay fit then great, but it’s the new guys coming through that will make or break us.
It’s easy to say Dodoro but exactly how are contract lengths determined? How many people have input? Who has the final say?
Guys like Parish and Ridley should be offered contracts of 3 years at the absolute max. Don’t like it? Go play somewhere else. And don’t even get me started on the Andrew McGrath contract.
Some of our contracts are ridiculous.
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Whole club needs to own those decisions.
Far too easy to sheet home all blame to Dodoro.
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its no biggy, dogs likely have 6 missing too.
backline will be our issue no Ridley or McKay, I thought Caldwell would play. If not swap for Hobbs.
b: MCGrath Hayes Laverde
hb: Redman Reid Shiel
c:Duursma Merrett El-Hawli
hf: Perkins Caddy Martin
f: kako Draper Langford
r: Bryan Tsatas Caldwell
int: Hobbs, Roberts, Prior, Gresham, Setterfield, Wright, Menzie, Unwin
Just keep it going until we win our next premiership. Shouldn’t be too long.
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Hopefully we have out best side against Geelong with only Parish missing and one or 2 others
I really enjoy your show and the diversity of your content even in the off season. Very happy you guys are back and you are continuing on with the show.
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Injury free pre season for Geelong the likes of Essendon can only wish for
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It’s a crock.
Conway hasn’t trained at all and afew others have missed a fair chunk. They never report injuries properly and they’ve been doing it for years, the AFL even made them amend the way they used to list players injury length.
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Given we are now in February, I expect many and varied injuries. We are already off to a flying start.
Anyone who thinks we will finish above 14 th is delusional.
Too many players have missed too much preseason.
Durham’s had groin soreness since he shacked up with that supermodel.
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Yep really disapointing
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Speaking of parish and then just seeing the 2017 replay of Sydney v Essendon on fox now. It got me thinking watching fantasia tearing it up, do other clubs have as many guys as we do, that are one season wonders? We’ve had quite a few over the years i think.
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All clubs have injuries and all clubs have certain players that are continually injured… the difference is between us and a really good side is the depth factor.
We really feel it if a good player or two have bad injuries but until we get a few more years of good recruiting and development then this will keep us from being a top six team
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You love the talk hey Nino, who cares if they don’t do it on the ground, he fell off massively and implies lots of things about others, Langers fan but there was lots of Essendon about those words
Cox with Concussion. Did someone shake his hand too hard
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Probably not, I think because we are such a big club that when a player has a break out season they get so much praise it goes to their heads and never replicate the work needed to maintain it.
Besides Merret that are incredible driven, you could almost go through every season pick out a standout player that doesn’t follow it up
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