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I’m just picturing how the rest of world will see us once we start playing our biggest sport* barefooted.

It’ll play into the backwards Croc Dundee stereotype beautifully.


*note - I don’t know if AFL is our biggest sport, but it suits my point so I’ll assert it as a fact.
AFL isn't a sport.
 

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5-day breaks don't help they should not exist in Professional AFL, it's a 360 game with twist & turns and they run 15km a game and take knocks and bruises.

You need 5-day breaks if you're gonna have Thursday night games. Otherwise the TV rights won't be as high.

Put that to the players with the subsequent salary changes and I guarantee what their answer will be.
 
Also, something that never gets mentioned but is really important is when you do an ACL.

It's still 12 months until you're absolutely 100% impact training and play without compromise.

This is by far the worst time of the year to do it. They miss all of 2024, then miss next pre-season (or it is highly compromised. That ruins their 2025 too as players that don't have full pre-seasons are chasing their tails for the whole season to keep up.

If you do it toward the end of the season (say for example Daniel McStay)... you still miss a year but at least you are 100% to start next pre-season and then you'll be flying into Round 1 2025.

For Gibcus, Coleman, Docherty... it's a two year injury in many ways. Destroys the player.
 
Also, something that never gets mentioned but is really important is when you do an ACL.

It's still 12 months until you're absolutely 100% impact training and play without compromise.

This is by far the worst time of the year to do it. They miss all of 2024, then miss next pre-season (or it is highly compromised. That ruins their 2025 too as players that don't have full pre-seasons are chasing their tails for the whole season to keep up.

If you do it toward the end of the season (say for example Daniel McStay)... you still miss a year but at least you are 100% to start next pre-season and then you'll be flying into Round 1 2025.

For Gibcus, Coleman, Docherty... it's a two year injury in many ways. Destroys the player.
The worst time is July or August as many times you miss the next season. Kills a season and a half. Sicily did his is August 2020 and didn't play again until 2022
 
Tom Doedee has re-injured his knee again ACL partial tear on the same knee he has been rehabbing terrible news.
So many ACL's this season...
 

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Season = completely write it off.😪

Richmond Injury List

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Shai Bolton, concussion (1 week)

Tim Taranto, wrist (1-2 weeks)

Tom Lynch, hamstring (2-3 weeks)

Jacob Hopper, hamstring (3-4 weeks)

Jack Ross, foot (6-8 weeks)

Maurice Rioli, ankle (6-8 weeks)

Dylan Grimes, back (TBA)

Liam Fawcett, back (TBA)

Mate Colina, back (TBA)

Tylar Young, knee, (season)

Sam Naismith, knee (season)

Josh Gibcus, knee (season)

Mykelti Lefau, knee (season)

Judson Clarke, knee (season)

And yet.....Richmond are still trying hard and trying to be competitive.
 
The Lions currently have 5 season ending ACL injuries > Kalin Lane, Lincoln McCarthy, Keidean Coleman, Tom Doedee and Darcy Gardiner.

Only just got Will Ashcroft back from an ACL mid 2023 season.
 

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