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Me reassuring the kids that everything is OK after a scoreless first half on Sunday:
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Game Day Round 1 v Gold Coast, It's The Hope That Is Great!
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Me reassuring the kids that everything is OK after a scoreless first half on Sunday:
Don't be like that, GC will kick plenty to half time
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How do you know he's not 100% fit though?
They just need to go out with a basic plan. Lots of pressure, cause turnovers. Don't hack kick, control the ball.
Go have fun, see what happens.
Fans have tempered our expectations so just go and have a crack and play some decent football.
And don't get flogged!
We don't. But saying ''just play him he will do it anyway" mindset I dont agree with.
And why risk one of your best players who is only just recently stepped up in training and hasn't played since the last tweek?
Big risk. Low reward.
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Need to tag Miller from the start and try to make this a full Dockers style boring shit scrapfest. Keep it simple and give them as little breathing room as possible. As soon as this game opens up we’ll be rooted
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They're not going to pick him, Mitch.
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You say that, but I cannot wait for the melts 10 minutes in to Round 1 of a season where everyone expected us to be average before losing half the list to preseason injuries.
Legendary stuff imminent.
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Cannot wait to see the team we put out, better yet our midfield!!!
I may single-handedly break the all-time boo record at Optus.
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They're not going to pick him, Mitch.
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C gaff Redden Naish
Foll natanui shuey SPS
All of Jones Foley Ryan and langdon may get a run in the middle
Nelson may get a tagging role
Lisa is the Gold Coast fan shocked at the antics of a crowd greater than a bus full of tourists who took a wrong turn somewhere.
going to be so hard to get the season going, look where it's at already
The_Gambler
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The risk of hamstring re-injury plateaus after aplayer has completed four matches without re-injury but stays elevated for the rest of the season and subsequent season. You could keep players with a hamstring out longer as you think you are preventing injury but on average they miss more games than they would have played. So there will always be risk. If shuey never plays, there’s no reward. Use science and not decisions based on emotion
The_Gambler
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We aren’t playing any kids in the midfield, as there aren’t any available. All are either experienced or have multiple preseasons - going in expecting to get flogged is a pathetic attitude.
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If Shuey plays then the main concern will be who is the medical sub to take his place half way through the first quarter.
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Would you agree if Shuey does another Hammie he's essentially done?
I would think so.
So in a game where we're up against it, completely depleted and not expected to win, I'd rather 'risk' Shuey on that game than in round 2 where will have Kelly, Yeo, Duggan all coming back in the side.
Is Shuey starting on the bench?
Well we won't have all those players back for round 2.
Nor should that have any influence on when Shuey plays.
And yes, if he does another hammie and is out for another 6-8 weeks his career is likely cooked at 31.
So playing him too early could realistically end his career. That is the risk we are taking by playing him before he's ready. And this club has far too much recent history saying a player is right to go............and it blows up in our face.
Waiting for Tom Morris to tell us if Shuey is in or not and for Simpson to ... do nothing cos he's a reasonable human being.
So are you saying play him anyway?
Or he should build training loads first?
What does science tell us about the first few rounds of a new season? Players who aren't quite right get injured more stepping up to AFL game levels? I bet it does.
If Shuey had had an uninterupted preseason he plays. But that didn't happen. Science would indicate he would be at a much higher risk playing round 1 than if he played round 3 after slowly building up his training loads for another two weeks.
Nothing emotional about this thought process?
What is emotional and doesn't follow science is people saying 'stuff it, he's going to pull it anyway, just play him'.
THAT is emotional and nothing to do with science.
Source?
Squads out today or are we still ruining my week with the 'day before' thing?
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