He will surely miss all the praccy games ensuring he is right by Round 1-3..
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sweethoney
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Yesterdays track watcher did actually report Walsh missed the handball drills and walked off with a trainer
bradfisher14
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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.
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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
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Not that it's any consolation, but I'm glad it wasn't Cerra.
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At least a month..,
It could be related
If we’ve got less than double digits on the injury list come round one, we’re flying
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...
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Might be an opening door for Lord and Jag to get early game time.
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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?
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Question to ask is is it even a hamstring? They would hide a back strain injury! Club cant be trusted when in membership drive.
1996/7, struggled for 2 years with back injuries and was never really the same
Walshy 
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Plus he’s still got a Brownlow to win after all. Can’t let Cripps keep racking them all up.
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.
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.
bradfisher14
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Harsh on Aaron Joseph. He used to get his job done consistently at a high level for us.
Not ideal, but gives Rob Inness and new medicos a first hand look at Walshy’s stressors, as opposed to anecdotal info. Plenty of time to redeem fitness levels before the season proper.
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I do remember last year the club and Blue Abroad saying walshy back next week for praccy matches, nothing to see. They went to heaven and earth to say nothing wrong with Walsh and then he missed the chunk of the start of the season.
There is a difference between a marquee player and a Marchbank type as the information will get out for walshy. they have to get on the front foot during membership run.
Of course, it could be a hamstring. Also, i dont mind you seeing it different to me. You have good insights.
That's a little dramatic. Hammys are normally 3 weeks-1 month. Really bad ones are 6 weeks. Keeping him on ice until round 3 would mean something has gone horribly wrong with Walshy, as was said by someone else.
In the post it says he'll be re-integrated in 2-3 weeks. I think the 1 month part is solely as it's pre-season so they'll build the load back up before full training as opposed to in-season when there's not really any choice but to go out on Saturday.
Will always remember that game he tagged a prime Ablett Junior out of the game.
