Injury Injury Report - Season 2025
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tigs2010
Pick 1...
Talk that Louie Kellaway trained.
Add a Louie to the field and Smillie gets a career threatening injury. Can't be coincidence.
Add a Louie to the field and Smillie gets a career threatening injury. Can't be coincidence.
tigs2010
Pick 1...
To add to this post I think Louie Emmett also training with us.
We've gone full Louie. You never go full Louie.
sregit
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Nice that Louis Emmett is training with us. Could be one of our early picks. Looks extremely talented.
A good read including our rehab policy
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Injury report: 2025 pre-season
Get the latest pre-season injury update.
By Richmond Media
Get the latest pre-season injury update from High Performance Manager Ben Serpell.
ACL group
The ACL guys are progressing really well. We're still holding firm on our decision to make sure that we give them time to come back and look at the full 12-month rehab for them. The reality is, we know, research tells us that the graft is still going to undergo some biological healing up until the 12-month mark, so where we can, we'll look after them in that space."
"Having said that, Judson Clarke's probably leading the charge with the ACL guys and, even then, we are probably not expecting him back until around about April."
"Mykelti Lefau’s doing really well and he's out there running a fair bit at the moment. Hopefully over the next couple of weeks or next couple of months, we'll see guys like him start to integrate into drills, but we'll take our time with them."
"Taj Hotton ran with Josh Gibcus for the first time the other day over the other side of the field and boys got around them, stopped training for them so they could get out and cheer them along and, and they did quite well. They've got long careers as I said, so we want to make sure we look after them, make sure they're healed well and that we're minimising risk for re-injury when they come back."
Approach to injury prevention
“We've got such a young group here that we want to spend time making sure that we're developing them athletically."
"We spend a lot of time teaching them how to kick and so on. Reality is, our guys might be lucky to kick 20 to 30 times in a game, but they do a lot more running than that. We're willing to do 20 kicks in a warm-up every day, but we don't spend a lot of time developing our athletes athletically."
"We've taken a proactive approach this year and we're developing our young lads, our new recruits, with Dan Bailey downstairs, who's an accomplished track and field coach. He's working with them this year and teaching them how to move on field, but also teaching them how to lift so that when they come out they're a little bit more robust to play. We’re trying to have that theme right across the squad this year.”
Get the latest pre-season injury update.
By Richmond Media
Get the latest pre-season injury update from High Performance Manager Ben Serpell.
Injury Report: Pre-Season
High Performance Manager Ben Serpell gives an update on the players in rehab thanks to nib.ACL group
The ACL guys are progressing really well. We're still holding firm on our decision to make sure that we give them time to come back and look at the full 12-month rehab for them. The reality is, we know, research tells us that the graft is still going to undergo some biological healing up until the 12-month mark, so where we can, we'll look after them in that space."
"Having said that, Judson Clarke's probably leading the charge with the ACL guys and, even then, we are probably not expecting him back until around about April."
"Mykelti Lefau’s doing really well and he's out there running a fair bit at the moment. Hopefully over the next couple of weeks or next couple of months, we'll see guys like him start to integrate into drills, but we'll take our time with them."
"Taj Hotton ran with Josh Gibcus for the first time the other day over the other side of the field and boys got around them, stopped training for them so they could get out and cheer them along and, and they did quite well. They've got long careers as I said, so we want to make sure we look after them, make sure they're healed well and that we're minimising risk for re-injury when they come back."
Approach to injury prevention
“We've got such a young group here that we want to spend time making sure that we're developing them athletically."
"We spend a lot of time teaching them how to kick and so on. Reality is, our guys might be lucky to kick 20 to 30 times in a game, but they do a lot more running than that. We're willing to do 20 kicks in a warm-up every day, but we don't spend a lot of time developing our athletes athletically."
"We've taken a proactive approach this year and we're developing our young lads, our new recruits, with Dan Bailey downstairs, who's an accomplished track and field coach. He's working with them this year and teaching them how to move on field, but also teaching them how to lift so that when they come out they're a little bit more robust to play. We’re trying to have that theme right across the squad this year.”
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Track & Field coach. Not sure if it's just for this year or beyond.
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That latest training/injury report made my ear prick up ! Especially the emphasis on technique and developing sound habits early on for the new recruits. Technique in all things is paramount! The gains will come No doubt but more/most important long term is Technique….. music to my ears TBH !!
Loving the cautious approach we’re taking. We’re in phase 1 of our rebuild and are in no rush. Serpell is making a great impression on me. Proof will be in the pudding but hard to feel like the players aren't in good hands.
Brilliant appointment. Running and landing mechanics have been proven to be a huge differentiator in the prevalence and recurrence of injuries, especially ACLs. I love how we are investing in our fitness department this year.
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I know it's early days but the Serp's background in various sports is a big plus. Brings with him a wealth of knowledge.
Cats have high praise for him. What impresses me is his approach to new techniques, injury prevention, basically re-programming the players.
Cats have high praise for him. What impresses me is his approach to new techniques, injury prevention, basically re-programming the players.
Year 1 of Meehan was bad enough.. Lynch and Gibcus injury recovery shit shows.
Funny, if you look at the AFL app... our team running numbers aint bad. . Round 24 Team Sprints RFC 252 GCS 237
Distance run Suns 284km vs RFC 279 km.
Year 2 worse.
not sacking Meehan earlier was a shocker.
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Great call, I don’t think there can be a more important appointment’s than in the fitness and conditioning department. Players are the club’s greatest asset, it’s absolutely pointless recruiting the best talent in the land, if you can’t develop them.
I think our soft cap payments must have gone up significantly from 2024. We’ve head hunted one of the better high performance managers in the competition and by the sounds of it added another well credentialed conditioning and fitness staff member.
Worth every cent and the extra soft cap tax if that’s the case.
