Injury Blue Healers Discussion - 2025

[Sam The Doc]

2-3 weeks is nothing. Not ideal but it’s nothing

Won’t miss even a praccy match

He will surely miss all the praccy games ensuring he is right by Round 1-3..

 

[sweethoney]

This is record speed communication from the club.

Normally we'd be having track watchers report the player missing for a good month before we heard they were out for another 2 weeks which actually meant 12

Yesterdays track watcher did actually report Walsh missed the handball drills and walked off with a trainer

 

[bradfisher14]

Questions we might dare ask:

1: is it a back-related hamstring?
2: is a bulky physique likely to increase or decrease the possibility of hamstring injuries?

Another question to consider:

Would we prefer Walsh to injure his back or his hamstrings?

That might be the calculation that the high performance team are making here.

 

[Tjblues]

He will surely miss all the praccy games ensuring he is right by Round 1-3..

A month gets him back for practice matches.

Official practice match for us is 28th of Feb: 6 weeks away

Round 1: 13th March, 2 months away.

If he’s not right to go before round 1 then somethings gone badly wrong

 

[dylan_mike1]

Not that it's any consolation, but I'm glad it wasn't Cerra.

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[ESKIE]

At least a month..,

 

[Arr0w]

Another question to consider:

Would we prefer Walsh to injure his back or his hamstrings?

That might be the calculation that the high performance team are making here.

It could be related

 

[Zlatan]

1 string this side of Christmas, normally we'd have half our list in the rehab group by now. Lets have some faith.

If we’ve got less than double digits on the injury list come round one, we’re flying

 

[Sam The Doc]

A month gets him back for practice matches.

Official practice match for us is 28th of Feb: 6 weeks away

Round 1: 13th March, 2 months away.

If he’s not right to go before round 1 then somethings gone badly wrong

Yeah for your standard footballer maybe... Walsh and injuries is frightening, they will be ultra conservative on him...
"atleast a month" shite statement to read for a guy with his history...

 

[The Blue Weirdo]

Might be an opening door for Lord and Jag to get early game time.

 

[tarczonandjane]

It could be related

Arr0w, you would be old enough to remember Fraser Brown’s career ended with a series of back related hamstring injuries. I should know, but was it the same for Ang Christou?

 

[JustOneTime]

Question to ask is is it even a hamstring? They would hide a back strain injury! Club cant be trusted when in membership drive.

 

[Arr0w]

Arr0w, you would be old enough to remember Fraser Brown’s career ended with a series of back related hamstring injuries. I should know, but was it the same for Ang Christou?

1996/7, struggled for 2 years with back injuries and was never really the same

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Walshy

 

[I bleed Blue]

Death, Taxes, and a horrific injury list before the season has even begun...

At what point do we bring in a Witch Doctor? It worked for the Socceroos...

Dunno how long I've been saying it...

There's a curse at PP. We need a reverse the curse ceremony

 

[BluStreak]

If Russell was still with us then the cacophany of cries for his head would have been catastrophic on here over the soft tissue injury to Walsh.

 

[JustOneTime]

If Russell was still with us then the cacophany of cries for his head would have been catastrophic on here over the soft tissue injury to Walsh.

The club appraised Russell and let him go. You need to move on. Russell being average doesnt stop the new guy being average also but Russell got at least 4 seasons under his belt before the cacophany really started.

How to look at it in summary. Cripps gives us advantages in the middle so we love him. Russell on balance didnt give us any advantages in injury management and soft tissue injuries. He just had to go. Russell for Carlton is like an Aaron Joseph...struggling.

 

[agro]

Dunno how long I've been saying it...

There's a curse at PP. We need a reverse the curse ceremony


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Brilliant & perfectly absolutely great reference.

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Question to ask is is it even a hamstring? They would hide a back strain injury! Club cant be trusted when in membership drive.

They just wouldn't have said anything if it was his back is my guess. Realistically there was a bucket load of players injured last pre season and we didn't hear about half of them. Remember Heath Buck would talk about Martin and Marchbank etc missing all the time and nobody had a clue what was going on.

Personally rather happy that the club has told us about his string the day after it occurred. Transparency would be a welcome change no matter how disappointing.

 

[WalshYouLegend]

Let’s hope it’s a quick recovery as Walshy deserves a good run at it for 2025.

Plus he’s still got a Brownlow to win after all. Can’t let Cripps keep racking them all up.

 

[NYCFC]

As an ex runner, I often found that having to deal with an issue in one part of my body often meant subtle changes to the way I ran... very subtle, but I found that put stress on other parts of my body, causing new issues.

If I had to guess, I'd say Walsh having to adapt to a chronic back issue may make him more susceptible to things like this hamstring strain.

I just hope we get to see peak Walsh again. Poor guy really needs some luck.