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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #480 on: August 16, 2014, 09:04:37 PM »
How devastating for the guy

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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #481 on: August 16, 2014, 10:33:20 PM »
Devastating - was in good form we could have used hi tonight

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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #482 on: August 16, 2014, 10:34:59 PM »
Yep, rate him highly and although it is very common for athletes to cop a soft tissue after a long layoff I think he will be taken around the back of the shed because the dog just won't hunt.
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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #483 on: August 16, 2014, 10:52:21 PM »
Might be minor?

Aim for a proper pre-season.

Wouldn't have played him this year anyway.

Guy might have just been devo because he wanted to play an AFL game this year/recent return etc.

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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #484 on: August 16, 2014, 11:11:24 PM »
Think someone said it was a bad one.
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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #485 on: August 16, 2014, 11:16:19 PM »
Should never have picked him to begin with

Biggest waste of a million dollars since the  McMahon selection

Goodbye
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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #486 on: August 16, 2014, 11:17:57 PM »
Should never have picked him to begin with

Biggest waste of a million dollars since the  McMahon selection

Goodbye

A million dollars?

Please he isn't on $500k a season
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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #487 on: August 16, 2014, 11:26:16 PM »
Should never have picked him to begin with

Biggest waste of a million dollars since the  McMahon selection

Goodbye

A million dollars?


Please he isn't on $500k a season

But after 3 seasons here he'd be close to it WP. Played 4 games out of 43 for the club so far. Quite damning.

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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #488 on: August 16, 2014, 11:33:15 PM »
Should never have picked him to begin with

Biggest waste of a million dollars since the  McMahon selection

Goodbye

A million dollars?


Please he isn't on $500k a season

But after 3 seasons here he'd be close to it WP. Played 4 games out of 43 for the club so far. Quite damning.

He's out of contract this year isn't he?

So using Angus' numbers he is supposedly on $500k a year.

And even if he has another year to go $300-$350k a season would be reasonable.

Problem has been the injuries.

And I think to whack the bloke for suffering the knee injury he did is harsh. It was freakish injury, shocking dislocation that damaged the ligaments. Not exactly his fault.

As for this season, well how the club could not put him for scope earlier rather trying to manage the pain well was....actually quite normal in light of what we've seen this year
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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #489 on: August 16, 2014, 11:37:26 PM »
To be fair the knee was just a freak injury that no-one could predict and he was looking very good at that stage.
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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #490 on: August 16, 2014, 11:38:12 PM »
Should never have picked him to begin with

Biggest waste of a million dollars since the  McMahon selection

Goodbye

A million dollars?


Please he isn't on $500k a season

But after 3 seasons here he'd be close to it WP. Played 4 games out of 43 for the club so far. Quite damning.

He's out of contract this year isn't he?

So using Angus' numbers he is supposedly on $500k a year.

And even if he has another year to go $300-$350k a season would be reasonable.

Problem has been the injuries.

And I think to whack the bloke for suffering the knee injury he did is just hatch. It was freakish injury, shocking dislocation that damaged the ligaments. Not exactly his fault.

As for this season, well how the club could not put him for scope earlier rather trying to manage the pain well was....actually quite normal in light of what we've seen this year

Maybe so WP and in part I agree but given the fiasco with Dusty last year and with a few blokes of the calibre of Cotch, Ellis and Dusty out of contract the gamble in selecting him has not paid off IMHO.

PS I thought he signed for three years. I stand corrected if it is confirmed at two. :thumbsup

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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #491 on: August 16, 2014, 11:53:53 PM »
Should never have picked him to begin with

Biggest waste of a million dollars since the  McMahon selection

Goodbye

A million dollars?

Please he isn't on $500k a season

3 years wasn't It

Regardless his crap

Don't ruin my night WP

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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #492 on: August 17, 2014, 12:05:05 AM »
It was a good idea to get him and I'm standing by it.
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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #493 on: August 17, 2014, 01:50:50 AM »
WP any comments?
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Re: Chris Knights - hamstring injury [merged]
« Reply #494 on: August 17, 2014, 01:58:50 AM »
Should never have picked him to begin with

Biggest waste of a million dollars since the  McMahon selection

Goodbye

A million dollars?

Please he isn't on $500k a season

3 years wasn't It

Regardless his crap

Don't ruin my night WP

Come for drinks in Adelaide
He's on about 150k plus match payments from memory. So he's on about 150k.  :lol