Player Watch #24: Tom Powell - signed thru 2026 - finishes 5th in the 2024 SBM.

[scottywiper]

Name a young North player in last few years who hasn't been injury plagued?
Mahoney is about it.
It's remarkable.

 

[Merlin007]

Name a young North player in last few years who hasn't been injury plagued?
Mahoney is about it.
It's remarkable.

Lachie Young, Atu; has Simpkin missed much? Xerri's been durable, Larkey hasn't missed too often

 

[Hazey1977]

All going well, we should see Powell off half back pretty soon before suffering a 2 season finger injury then being traded to Adelaide for pick 62

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This latest bad news is all on you Arch11!

 

[shinboner magic]

Name a young North player in last few years who hasn't been injury plagued?
Mahoney is about it.
It's remarkable.

The great Lachie Hosie

 

[teethmeetsflesh]

The great Lachie Hosie

I really thought he was a bit stiff to be delisted, but I digress!

 

[Ashley B]

I reckon the injury curse has something to do with playing at Shitihead , Marvelous stadium . I reckon hardly anyone that is a co tenant has won a flag Dirty Dons first year and the Dogs .

 

[king of the road]

I really thought he was a bit stiff to be delisted, but I digress!

Well and truly deserved to be delisted.
No team oriented game at all.

 

[marklovesbeer]

I really thought he was a bit stiff to be delisted, but I digress!

Me too mate.
I was a huge fan.

 

[marklovesbeer]

Well and truly deserved to be delisted.
No team oriented game at all.

Inside info at all?
What do you mean by ‘no team orientated game at all?’ specifically?
I’m just interested because I have a semi personal connection & would love to know what you’re suggesting.

 

[LB2Snake]

What's his position?

At this stage they are playing him wing, he’s got a massive tank……but most players do compared to NMFC players. I think he’ll end up like fridge Roberto’s type, can play anywhere. Kinda the way the game is tracking anyway mate.

 

[shinboner magic]

I reckon the injury curse has something to do with playing at Shitihead , Marvelous stadium . I reckon hardly anyone that is a co tenant has won a flag Dirty Dons first year and the Dogs .

Most of our young players get injured before even debuting - so the ground has nothing to do with it

 

[gokangas]

I reckon the injury curse has something to do with playing at Shitihead , Marvelous stadium . I reckon hardly anyone that is a co tenant has won a flag Dirty Dons first year and the Dogs .

This has been speculated a lot over the years, although not recently that I have seen. Not sure how you prove it to be right or wrong.

 

[Swallow_Wood]

Name a young North player in last few years who hasn't been injury plagued?
Mahoney is about it.
It's remarkable.

Yeah but he's 32.

 

[Horizons_00]

Something isn't right here.

I thought we overhauled our fitness and conditioning dept? Worrying signs...

I honestly thought we were addressing it under noble and our new staff. I even made a thread about it.

Looks like nothing has changed

 

[The Nostradamus]

Could just be precautionary scans that many players do

We would have announced something otherwise

 

[koshari]

Nah. He's four times as intelligent as Bastinac

Depends on your metrics, pure genius that this bloke managed to amass 164 games.




:Sternlook

 

[the flying ham]

I honestly thought we were addressing it under noble and our new staff. I even made a thread about it.

Looks like nothing has changed

 

[koshari]

I really thought he was a bit stiff to be delisted, but I digress!

So did he reportedly.

 

[koshari]

Something isn't right here.

I thought we overhauled our fitness and conditioning dept? Worrying signs...

I still don't subscribe to us being unfit, turn it over continuously where your team mates are then caught out of position and have to flood back continually will burn tickets in any team.

For the most part our skills are diabolical and not consistent with a professional sporting outfit.

Conditioning I agree with but this is consistent with a young group.

 

[king of the road]

Inside info at all?
What do you mean by ‘no team orientated game at all?’ specifically?
I’m just interested because I have a semi personal connection & would love to know what you’re suggesting.

No inside word. Just observation.
Did very little without the ball to help the team. Didn’t do much shepherding, making space for team mates.
I think it was one of his games against Collingwood, he’s next to Mahony and peels of to get possession. Should have shepherded, Greenwoood nails him in a tackle and Jack goes of injured. Just one example. But noticed a few times he was a bit of a bystander without the ball sometimes.

 

[The Y Factor]

I honestly thought we were addressing it under noble and our new staff. I even made a thread about it.

Looks like nothing has changed

Are you guys reading the right injury list?

We have 4/5 people on it with cancer, glandular fever , concussion and heavy bruising!

I don’t have the PD’s for our fitness crew but pretty sure they can’t do much about any of those listed!!

In fact I can’t recall our injury list looking better for a decade??

 

[The Y Factor]

What’s wrong with Powell?

 

[giantroo]

What’s wrong with Powell?

Calf injury.

 

[The Y Factor]

Calf injury.

Any idea on how long they think? Already been 2 weeks

 

[Ashley B]

Hope its not conservative North with Tom , we will see him back the last year of his contract.