Injury SJOGHCIU - Offseason Edition

[Mop]

As an outsider that has no understanding of your club, what is the general consensus on the cause of these massive injury lists West Coast have been dealing with the last few years?
Has the ground at Optus Stadium had anything to do with it? Are these injuries mostly soft tissue or are a reasonable amount contact-related? You'd think a club like West Coast would be well resourced to hire a great medical team, is there a feeling amongst the fans that the players are being over-worked or mismanaged by the strength and conditioning team?
I actually feel sorry for you guys knowing that you must be going in to each game without any hope of a win or seeing some of your best players do their thing due to being on the sidelines. It would be incredibly frustrating not having any continuity in your team.

Do you come in peace? Maybe have some spare pieces for our medical team?

We think that Lathlain is some ancient burial ground and spirits have cursed us.

Cheers. Enjoy the 20 goal win on Saturday.

 

[THE A5]

I’m planning to go to training tomorrow but really it’s gonna be three blokes playing kick to kick.

don't. They'll call you into fill in and you'll ping both hammy's and shit yourself at the same time

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Burgiel showing heaps in the WAFL?

Finally something nice!

Nahhhhh…it’s gone.

What’s WAFL training? Do the young players spend some time training with the top ups?

 

[MrKennedy17]

Time to allign WCE with Perth Demons, but only interstate players. All WA players need to play for their own clubs. Same goes with Peel too.
If player A is on Eagle list but drafted from Peel he plays for Perth. Only option. All those Ammos boys can go back to Ammos.

Sorry lads. News gets worse

BBBBW is out. Burgiel is now injured too

West Coast Eagles could be forced to postpone WAFL clash as two fresh injury blows emerge amid crisis​

Mitchell WoodcockThe West Australian
Mon, 17 April 2023 7:27PM
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Mitchell Woodcock

West Coast are set to investigate the possibility of postponing its WAFL game at the weekend.

West Coast’s injury crisis is on the brink of plummeting to the same depths as last year, with the club set to investigate the possibility of postponing this weekend’s WAFL clash due to a lack of fit squad members.
Sources have told The West Australian ruckman Bailey Williams is in doubt for the AFL side’s road clash against Port Adelaide after suffering a hamstring injury.
The already banged-up Eagles sent Elliot Yeo (groin) and first-round draftee Elijah Hewett (ankle) for scans on Monday on their respective injuries, while draftee Coby Burgiel re-injured his hamstring at WAFL training on Monday.

 

[squashface]

 

[amazingjoshy]

Sorry lads. News gets worse

BBBBW is out. Burgiel is now injured too

West Coast Eagles could be forced to postpone WAFL clash as two fresh injury blows emerge amid crisis​

Mitchell WoodcockThe West Australian
Mon, 17 April 2023 7:27PM
Comments
Mitchell Woodcock

West Coast are set to investigate the possibility of postponing its WAFL game at the weekend.

West Coast’s injury crisis is on the brink of plummeting to the same depths as last year, with the club set to investigate the possibility of postponing this weekend’s WAFL clash due to a lack of fit squad members.
Sources have told The West Australian ruckman Bailey Williams is in doubt for the AFL side’s road clash against Port Adelaide after suffering a hamstring injury.
The already banged-up Eagles sent Elliot Yeo (groin) and first-round draftee Elijah Hewett (ankle) for scans on Monday on their respective injuries, while draftee Coby Burgiel re-injured his hamstring at WAFL training on Monday.

As Big trev would say you just can't fathom how these things could happen

Such bad luck....

 

[CoastersFlag No.5]

The article actually gets worse from there. Apparently with Williams with a hammy and Jamieson with an ankle it will be come on down Harry Barnett!!!

Hewett and Burgiel are now almost certain to miss the clash, while draftee Harry Barnett could be called upon to make his debut if Jamieson and Williams are unfit.

To make matters worse, reigning WAFL fairest and best Harry Creasey (ankle) and recruit Alec Waterman (leg) were injured against the Falcons.

 

[Matera92]

Sorry lads. News gets worse

BBBBW is out. Burgiel is now injured too

West Coast Eagles could be forced to postpone WAFL clash as two fresh injury blows emerge amid crisis​

Mitchell WoodcockThe West Australian
Mon, 17 April 2023 7:27PM
Comments
Mitchell Woodcock

West Coast are set to investigate the possibility of postponing its WAFL game at the weekend.

West Coast’s injury crisis is on the brink of plummeting to the same depths as last year, with the club set to investigate the possibility of postponing this weekend’s WAFL clash due to a lack of fit squad members.
Sources have told The West Australian ruckman Bailey Williams is in doubt for the AFL side’s road clash against Port Adelaide after suffering a hamstring injury.
The already banged-up Eagles sent Elliot Yeo (groin) and first-round draftee Elijah Hewett (ankle) for scans on Monday on their respective injuries, while draftee Coby Burgiel re-injured his hamstring at WAFL training on Monday.

 

[AsterixTheGaul]

Here is how they will lay down (not sure what the opposite of line up is)

Oh and I have not got Bailey in there yet.

 

[Mop]

The article actually gets worse from there. Apparently with Williams with a hammy and Jamieson with an ankle it will be come on down Harry Barnett!!!

Hewett and Burgiel are now almost certain to miss the clash, while draftee Harry Barnett could be called upon to make his debut if Jamieson and Williams are unfit.

To make matters worse, reigning WAFL fairest and best Harry Creasey (ankle) and recruit Alec Waterman (leg) were injured against the Falcons.

We know Jamieson is just coming back from an ankle, that’s not new news per se, it’s just a matter of where he’s at.

 

[Mop]

Here is how they will lay down (not sure what the opposite of line up is)

Oh and I have not got Bailey in there yet.

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BBBBW in the backline as per your podcast suggestion.
We’re nearly there! Full lay down XXII

 

[the harry]

Have to laugh.

What a mess.

 

[Godfather32]

Have to laugh.

What a mess.

 

[Rowan18]

This is how you get stuck in the cycle - Barnett gets forced to play when he's not ready and he'll be the next one to go down. Then you rush Jameson or B Williams back too quickly and they go down. Or we put Warterman or Allen in the ruck and break them.

I'm coming around to the view that this is more than bad luck. We don't have enough mid aged players which mean that the fragile bodies of the oldies and youngsters are exposed too much and the injuries pile up.

Freo had a similar problem a few years ago. It seems to have been fixed when they moved the vets on and got rid of the constantly injured like Harley Bennell

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and S Hill. I think we're going to have to do the same thing but it might mean we're going to have to burn some draft capital getting mid aged best 22 players to fill the void.

 

[Obeanie1]

Ok we need some investigation into who has cursed us.

Its gett8ng beyond a joke.

Hewett slipped and did his ankle at the opening bounce!

Come on............

Something smells fishy with all this bad luck FFS.

 

[Quinz]

Gotta admit this is legitimately funny.

 

[Quinz]

The worst part is we just signed Brent Harvey

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as a top up player yesterday.

 

[Biggie]

Wow.

We really did sell our soul for that 2018 flag didn't we?

It's the only plausible explanation.

 

[Westend]

Ok we need some investigation into who has cursed us.

Its gett8ng beyond a joke.

Hewett slipped and did his ankle at the opening bounce!

Come on............

Something smells fishy with all this bad luck FFS.

I tend to agree the club looks incompetent atm

It cannot just be all "bad luck"

 

[Godfather32]

Ok we need some investigation into who has cursed us.

Its gett8ng beyond a joke.

Hewett slipped and did his ankle at the opening bounce!

Come on............

Something smells fishy with all this bad luck FFS.

I think it's becoming increasingly obvious that the new club song is actually a gypsy curse.
I mean think about it, the club released the new song, 2 months later the state's in lockdown from a global pandemic and then we're hubbing in Queensland. That's just the start. It's been all downhill since that song came out.

 

[WCErevival]

Here is how they will lay down (not sure what the opposite of line up is)

Oh and I have not got Bailey in there yet.

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That team would win the flag

 

[LewyBroome]

Does anyone know if/why Warren Kofoed is still the Strength and Conditioning Manager at the Club? If so, how in the blue hell did he stay on after last years utter turmoil. Imagine a professional sporting organisation not being able to field a side.

 

[WCErevival]

I reckon it has to be the training ground. We moved into MRP in 2019. Thats pretty much when everything went south. Shuey and Yeo started getting injuries. Its not like the club has lost all ability to prepare a team after doing it successfully for 30 years. The human body hasn't suddenly changed in 4 years.

 

[Quinz]

The human body hasn't suddenly changed in 4 years.

Speak for yourself

 

[Nuke Fremantle]

This is how you get stuck in the cycle - Barnett gets forced to play when he's not ready and he'll be the next one to go down. Then you rush Jameson or B Williams back too quickly and they go down. Or we put Warterman or Allen in the ruck and break them.

I'm coming around to the view that this is more than bad luck. We don't have enough mid aged players which mean that the fragile bodies of the oldies and youngsters are exposed too much and the injuries pile up.

Freo had a similar problem a few years ago. It seems to have been fixed when they moved the vets on and got rid of the constantly injured like Harley Bennell and S Hill. I think we're going to have to do the same thing but it might mean we're going to have to burn some draft capital getting mid aged best 22 players to fill the void.

The cycle starts with giving new contracts to injury plagued has beens. Everything snowballs from there. First, has been get injured again. Others forced to pick up the slack, they get overworked and eventually injured. Youngsters forced to fill the void when they're not ready, they get injured. Players then rushed back too early because we're running out of numbers, they get injured and so on and so on and so on.