Hi Roddy
in reply checked out how many players missing per match. My guess is about 10% so missing 2-3 players each week of the starting 23. We need minimum 7-8 AFL ready players across each line, short and tall.
Those extra players will be super important come the pointy end of the season, ensuing they are AFL ready they will need a few games for exposure thru the year. It's the list, its always the list!
AFL site: The total injury recurrence rate remains low at nine per cent and has been relatively stable over the past five years.
The updated AFL & AFLW Concussion Guidelines for 2021 promoted a more conservative graded step wise return to play approach following concussion mandating for the first time that a player suffering a concussion must miss one or more matches to accommodate the graded return to play protocol. In following the guidelines, the earliest that a player could return to play after a concussion was 12 days, meaning that players with a concussion were required to miss at least one match (other than where no match was scheduled in the 12-day period after the concussion) and are therefore included in the incidence figures.
