Injury Blue Healers Discussion - 2025

[Soapy V]

Did we get another Carroll??

Matt. He was with us last year

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Matt. He was with us last year

These are confusing times.

 

[Soapy V]

These are confusing times.

Amen to that

 

[Lukeblueboy]

FMD!
Anyway, I feel for Nic.
Someone else’s time to grab there chance now

 

[Stamos]

Be interesting to see if they pick 3 of the train on players or leave a spot open for the msd

I would guess the latter

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Just remember this kid has only played 24 games.

 

[RAPPA]

really gonna miss Newman’s toughness. Our backmen are all “nice” and Newman is the only flag flyer. Feel Ike Cowan could fill that role but Newman’s a huge loss.

 

[AB_Blue]

Newman…



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[JJBagger]

really gonna miss Newman’s toughness. Our backmen are all “nice” and Newman is the only flag flyer. Feel Ike Cowan could fill that role but Newman’s a huge loss.

Cowan, Boyd, Weitering all have mongrel in them. Wouldn’t say any of them are just “nice”

 

[Thrawn]

Thread title is cursed. Been saying it for years!

 

[Blue since 72]

really gonna miss Newman’s toughness. Our backmen are all “nice” and Newman is the only flag flyer. Feel Ike Cowan could fill that role but Newman’s a huge loss.

While unfortunate this is such a great opportunity for one of our next gen backmen to step into the hole. Really looking forward to seeing who steps up and takes it.

 

[BlueTongue]

WTAF?! I have only just seen this.
I seriously cannot remember a preseason in recent years where we didn't lose someone key to a serious injury.

 

[JustaBattler]

While unfortunate this is such a great opportunity for Voss to discover a bigger mongrel in one of our next gen backmen to step into the hole. Really looking forward to seeing who steps up and takes it.

 

[BlueZombie]

We have coverage but that's not the point.

This club is ****ing cursed.

I just got home from work and texted my best mate that very same thing.

 

[SBYM]

What the ****ing ****??!?!?!

 

[manang magoos]

I just got home from work and texted my best mate that very same thing.

Totally and utterly cursed just a question is it anything to do with Ikon Park turf

 

[Arr0w]

Cripps, Curnow, Mckay, Weitering... TDK, Lets start at 6 surely?

I wouldn't consider Newman as being better in a naturally gifted sense, but his output as a player and leader over the last 2 years did provide a high level of importance, more than most best 22

I'd say Weitering is our most important player, due to his level of quality and lack of suitable quality of the next option as a KPD

 

[athensblue]

Terrible news, sure we have some talent to try and cover but feel for Newy.
Any chance of changing the name of this thread?

 

[Blue and Blue]

Next man up.
That's football
Always has been always will be.

 

[Red Bull]

Newman our second best player ??



Docherty available to return if experience is deemed necessary but really hoping the door opens for Wilson now.
Sometimes you never know what you’ve got until you give it a go …

 

[gbatman]

I get the feeling that the Newman injury will be the making of Cowan. He became AFL ready last season and rapidly improved. 20 years old with a valuable 24 AFL games under his belt, just appears ready to take off. Talented player. If we need more leadership and experience down there, Docherty is the obvious one to have a role back there. I'm excited to see Cowan with more opportunity and more responsibility. He won't look back.

 

[passmark]

Big loss.

One of those always in the right spot at the right time guys. A very cool head.

Usually very reliable distributor of the ball, that’s why his stats are so high.

Not many others give mana sense of relief when they have the ball TBH. Takes options by foot I’m not sure many on our team can.

Big loss.

 

[Worm4]

I get the feeling that the Newman injury will be the making of Cowan. He became AFL ready last season and rapidly improved. 20 years old with a valuable 24 AFL games under his belt, just appears ready to take off. Talented player. If we need more leadership and experience down there, Docherty is the obvious one to have a role back there. I'm excited to see Cowan with more opportunity and more responsibility. He won't look back.

Opens up a lot of possibilities. I'm hoping our ball movement from the backline is quicker now than in previous seasons. I'm aware that Voss and co like Newman with ball in hand as he makes good decisions, but it's given other the opportunity to make this position their own. As sad as I am for anyone injured, I'm a tad excited what it might bring moving forward

 

[swuzzlebubble]

As sad as I am for anyone injured, I'm a tad excited what it might bring moving forward

We had enough of this excitement last year

 

[Beyond Blue]

Newman our second best player ??

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Docherty available to return if experience is deemed necessary but really hoping the door opens for Wilson now.
Sometimes you never know what you’ve got until you give it a go …

I really like Newman but I agree talk of him being our 2nd best player - regardless of B&F results over the past 2 seasons - is a bit far fetched. That said he plays a very important role and will be hard to replace. Albeit we do have options.

IMO Cowan is clearly the one to play Newman’s role long term. The question will be whether he can step up to replace his output this season. I think he gets there in time but I can’t see Cowan being as effective this year as Newman was last year as he doesn’t yet have the poise will ball in hand.

If Cowan fails badly in the role then we have Docherty to go back there to fill a gap for a year. I see Wilson more as a long term replacement for Saad. I think Wilson will do well to break into the team and play regularly this year.