Missing Misson?
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Re: Missing Misson?
Raph IS a torn hamstring.Con Gorozidis wrote:raph has been injured since caveman times
We can't trade him because no one wants a hamstring.
We keep him only to please Demetriou's leftist politcal correctness.
But the thread is correct in one sense.
Both Clarkes were talented players.
Both had failed careers because they never had the correct conditioning before they started their AFL careers.
Both paid the price for unneccessary soft tissue injuries under a regime of bull headed ignorance.
Lets hope our present youngsters get proper conditioning first.
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Re: Missing Misson?
Don't agree re Raph as a person - but if his hammy is dodgy all year it may be curtains for him on an injury basis just likeace wrote:Raph IS a torn hamstring.Con Gorozidis wrote:raph has been injured since caveman times
We can't trade him because no one wants a hamstring.
We keep him only to please Demetriou's leftist politcal correctness.
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Re: Missing Misson?
We're closer to a full compliment of players than most other clubs so I'd say we're doing ok in that department. Raph and Gram have been battling chronic injuries their whole careers. Bit surprised about Schnieder, he's one of our more durable players. Gwilt unlucky with his knee.
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Re: Missing Misson?
Misson is over rated. If he was that good, why couldn't he get Luke Ball's body right?
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Re: Missing Misson?
Yeah that makes sense, we are keeping Raph on the list only because it is enforced by a Demetriou policy regarding the number of indigenous players that must be on every list.saintspremiers wrote:Don't agree re Raph as a person - but if his hammy is dodgy all year it may be curtains for him on an injury basis just likeace wrote:Raph IS a torn hamstring.Con Gorozidis wrote:raph has been injured since caveman times
We can't trade him because no one wants a hamstring.
We keep him only to please Demetriou's leftist politcal correctness.
his brother.
ace - please post more often!!!
Perfect sense, keep it up Ace.
Re: Missing Misson?
saintspremiers wrote:Don't agree re Raph as a person - but if his hammy is dodgy all year it may be curtains for him on an injury basis just likeace wrote:Raph IS a torn hamstring.Con Gorozidis wrote:raph has been injured since caveman times
We can't trade him because no one wants a hamstring.
We keep him only to please Demetriou's leftist politcal correctness.
his brother.
ace - please post more often!!!
Probably sums up to posters right there.
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Re: Missing Misson?
ace wrote:Raph IS a torn hamstring.Con Gorozidis wrote:raph has been injured since caveman times
We can't trade him because no one wants a hamstring.
We keep him only to please Demetriou's leftist politcal correctness.
But the thread is correct in one sense.
Both Clarkes were talented players.
Both had failed careers because they never had the correct conditioning before they started their AFL careers.
Both paid the price for unneccessary soft tissue injuries under a regime of bull headed ignorance.
Lets hope our present youngsters get proper conditioning first.
Wow. Your not Clive Palmer are you ace? Hope you have an alfoil hat so the satellites don't read your thoughts and the lefty police take you away for reeducation.
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Re: Missing Misson?
I've said it for a while... the Clarke brothers especially Raph were amazing prospects as juniors.
Throw in Winmar who looked ok and you have 3 talented prospects who on getting to St.K have had frequent soft tissue problems and all played well below their potential...
it's a worrying sign for mine
Throw in Winmar who looked ok and you have 3 talented prospects who on getting to St.K have had frequent soft tissue problems and all played well below their potential...
it's a worrying sign for mine
Re: Missing Misson?
too soon to tell.jonesy wrote:Gram,Schneider return back to there hamstring problems of yesteryear before round 1....
players missing with injury at round 1:
2012: 4 (gram, clarke, schneider, gwilt)
2011: 5 (gardiner, koschitzke, polo, walsh, ledger)
2010: 10 (steven, winmar, dempster, fisher, j smith, hutchings, miles, simpkin, mcgrath, allen)
2009: 8 (hayes, hudghton, armitage, dempster, lynch, allen, connors, cahill)
2008: 10 (gehrig, goddard, dempster, blake, maguire, gwilt, van rheenen, chivers, attard, miles)
2007: 5 (hamill, watts, riewoldt, r clarke, ferguson)
so from that data it's actually better than previous years.
let's see how it goes. every recent year except 2009 we've had an injury peak of 12 or more players missing. 2009, the most was the 8 at round one (if you don't include the tassie game against hawthorn where players were rested). hence we had a very good year.