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I'm not saying Oliver hasn't been bad. But he's bad is as bad as Cripps in 2020 and 2021. Oliver has surpassed my expectations. I didn't expect him to be playing until after the bye. He's had 0 pre-season. I'm pretty sure Cripps had a pre-season during his 'injury years'.
Oliver shouldn’t be playing till he’s fit enough. Has been a liability at the best of times. Needs to lock in and get fit again or else he’ll be copping more than he already is, which isn’t enough.
No... I'm pretty sure a fractured back is just a fractured back...
Cripps had to get an injection to manage the pain of a back injury, which is one of the worst to play through, having doing it myself currently. Couldn’t imagine it at 6’5 and his size.
You can't say Oliver shouldn't be playing until he's fit and then say Cripps had an injury for 2 years and try to squirm out of his hopeless 2 years. It's double standards.
yeah. because all back injuries are the same...he played for 2 years with this debilitating back injury. You'd think if it was bad enough then they'd give him the rehab that was required but he was deemed fit to play for 2 years.
Carlton were a rabble. Cripps should’ve had surgery to clean it up or let it rest, he and their club didn’t. I didn’t say Cripps should have played, neither should. Play if you’re fit. Playing injured only makes life harder and worse for yourself/team.
They aren’t all the same. But a fractured back is horrible, it affects not only your back and ability to do daily tasks, bending over, it goes and overcompensates with your legs, hamstrings and quads. Your joints and where it connects via hips & shoulders. He had the same injection I had and it is a super strong needle but it also doesn’t work wonders and only helps whilst also managing it heavily. You either need surgery or full rest to properly get rid of issues like he had, and most back problems.
Yep, I had one last year and it was absolutely debilitating. Could barely bend over for a ground ball for months. And that was on the minor end of injuries according to my physio.
Cripps has a whole team of world class physio's and doctors by his side. Sure he may have been much more hobbled during mid-week but on the weekends he was doing this:
So Oliver is worse than Cripps in 2020-2021??
Mines minor, it’s not a stress fracture or anything. Mines two discs slipping which one went sideways hitting my nerve and the other near my spine out back. I played through it for a year and couldn’t move after games. Then played with morphine and it wasn’t strong enough, so got an injection which is 3-4 months and I need to get another soon. They had to stab it in and find my nerve so that it could shrink and reduce inflammation so it wasn’t touching and doing so it took 4/5 stabs, was annoying. But they don’t have to do surgery by cutting off parts of my disc because it is a high risk back and spinal surgery especially at a younger age. Similar to Walsh I believe. I was out for a month unable to do anything until it started to kick in, had to slow walk again with lots of swimming, helps but still get severe pain if I move wrong. So Cripps fracture is a much worse situation, but considering he’s also 195cm to my 183 I’d presume he would have it even worse off. It’s something you can push through but the discomfort and flow on effects are huge, Gunston had a back injury and had to change his kicking technique which has turned him from a sharp shooter to what he is now, also mobility wise is bad.
exactly. I don't disagree with the Oliver issues that you pointed out. It's clear that Oliver is having a poor season. Is it surprising. Not remotely.
Cripps is in Brownlow contention and has been top 5 for players this year. Don’t be silly.
why do you keep mentioning the brownlow? It has 0 credibility.
You mentioned the brownlow so you lost immediate credibility.
Any actual rebuttal or just 'Brownlow bad REEEEEEE'?
afl.com.au squeezed him onto thee bench in their mid-season AA team. You should be grateful with that I reckon.
Brownlow is the most well known award, coaches votes he sits at 6th. Fyi
most well known yes, but only simpletons give it credibility. It's so beyond flawed that it means next to nothing.
Your favourite award has him 6th, so where does 25 come?
