Moore hae been has had injury forever. This counts as injury. Even if it has been a long time. Grimesy and Moore are potentially Both part of our back 6. Your argument is flawed. The coach would see him as a nuckmaxwell type 3rd/4th tall. The typed we missed last week. Again; grimes/moore can play together.
Helbig would have played more games than not, imo. I had him down starting21.outside edwards we are not blessed with small/mid forwards. Helbig has fight and talent. Not a lightly missed. Type of bloke that could have stepped into the foley role.
Astbury is our1st choice CHB. Big loss. Astbury/grimes/moore are close to 3 of our first choice four starting 18 kpd.
Griffiths has had a tough afl run with injury. And has had more than one injury this season i think. 1st choice back CHF. Again not a small loss. Hes been playing back due to injury.
Dea is another key s22 players who has missed games recently with injury. Ditto batchelor.
Grimes is frankly a gun. And this is 2/2 year in a row we lost him. FB. Vital part of the backline.
Morris did his shoulder shep pavlich. Injury.
Deledio did the first soft tissue injury of his life.
If foley played vs freo. We would have won. Key injury.
Id like to see every of clubs injury list before i declare this year a dream run. Reiwoldt for example came into the season off the back of how many operations? And has now done his ankle.
not going to argue with ya needless to say we disagree. ive followed injuries very closely and we have had a great run with them as far as numbers go and to key players goes. thats not just this yr but the last three.
mick might have got a bit wrong with his assessment in giving a c+, but he was right when he said we have had less injury than any other team. it obviously played a big part in his assessment. it obviously was an important part of his assessment.
helbig astbury, griffiths and dea were and still are unproven players it shows just how little depth we have if we are relying on first and second yr players to lead the team, it really does show how little depth we have if these players are being badly missed when they cop an injury.
griffiths is barely doing enough to earn a spot in fact id say at any other club with decent depth he would not be playing. the same goes for dave astbury even before injury despite getting games he was struggling and looked like he would take two yrs to get close to speed. helbig played 10 games and struggled in most but like the other two showed glimpses of potential. matt dea the same. these 4 were not going to make a difference to us winning we got games into kids because there was no other option. i still think the options are limited and we should be getting games into more kids.
the simple fact is the only senior player we have lost for an inordinate amount of time is moore. i dont know why people have to try and paint a pretty picture or make an excuse. injuries are not an excuse we can use thats for sure. why cant we just accept the facts for what they are.
you know i know 90% of the supporters acknowledge the lack of depth thank god we have not had many injuries i really hope the club can acknowledge it as well.
yes grimes is missed but the simple fact is this yr yes micks report was on the first 11 games we missed grimes for just 3 out of 11. we won two of those games.
heres a listr for ya. first group 8 plus games.
played 11 games. Conca, Cotchin, Deledio,ellis, Grigg, Houli, I Maric, Martin,Morris, Nahas, Newman, Rance, Riewoldt, Tuck,
played 10 games. Foley, Jackson suspended,
played 9 games. Edwards, Vickery, Batchelor,
played 8 games. Grimes, Miller,
second group 6 and under games. hardly an injury among them this yr or a better way to say it very few.
played 6 games. Dea, A Maric, King suspensions.
played 3 games. Griffiths.
played 2 games. White.
played 1 game. O'hanlon, Post.
third group havent played a game.
Played 0 games. Arnot, Astbury, Browne, Connors, Darrou, Derickx, Elton, Graham, Helbig, Macdonald, Mcguane, Moore, Turner, Verrier, Webberley, Wright.
as far as i can tell theres been very little injury to this group as well. out side of Astbury long term. Helbig long term and Moore long term.
we have actually chosen not to make changes when we probably should have.
and i have to correct myself with ohanlon getting a game we now have 28 who have played this season still fewer than any other side.
the most played by any club this yr is 38 that i can gather.
