The Collingwood injury discussion thread

[RudeBoy]

[Piesnchess]

WE are cursed with injuries, season after season, year in, year out, just a nere ending curse, and dont tell me curses dont exist, please ! No Tay, No jamie, Howe gone for God knows how long, and De Goey. Never happens to ordinary players like WHE, or Thomas, always our stars. Just never ends, ever, and it dont think, it ever will. Ever. Period.

[Pies4shaw]

^ This is about what most clubs are contending with at various times. Indeed, GWS beat us last week with about half a team. Making such whining excuses is actually more upsetting to read than facing the true position.

[K]

[Piesnchess]

[Pies4shaw]

Have a look at the injury lists https://www.afl.com.au/matches/injury-list and knock yourself explaining how your constant, pointless whining about injuries isn't constant, pointless whining.

[Jezza]

I'm over the injury excuses.

The excuses only serve to disguise the shortcomings of the team and deludes us into believing we're better than what we really are.

Every club has injury issues along the way. The fact that we've had a decade of extensive injury lists isn't down to bad luck.

[Piesnchess]

[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]

[Pies4shaw]

^ Apart from the unnecessary abuse of posters with a differing view based upon reality, it strikes me as distracting drivel.

Let it be assumed - just for a moment - that the universe has gone mad and that there are "injury gods" who are specifically out to defeat Collingwood. What are we to do with such information?

There are many, many things the Club might do (and, presumably, has already done) to try to reduce the impact of injuries on our playing group. We could, eg, try a different, less-taxing game plan, we could be less generous about keeping habitually-injured players on the list, we could change our training methods, we could change where we train etc etc etc.

Whatever the plan for improving our on-field results, I really, really hope that it is not focused on leaving out small, sweet offerings to appease the "injury gods."

[K]

Geebung are having Pie Syndrome.

Paddy's "minor tweak" is a syndesmosis tear. He's been operated on and will be out for "up to two months".


When do we play them?

[WarrenerraW]

I'd argue that it's probably our training regimen and taxing game plan which contributes towards injuries.

Every club suffers injuries - FACT, and ours is no different. It's comes down to player management. Some clubs can handle that better than others. We don't and haven't for a long time.

[piedys]

[simon tonna]

Still a relatively short list


Re mods. Fill free to delete if the injury gods haven’t been worshiped to lately.

[watt price tully]