Injury SJOGHCIU - Will the curse be lifted in 2024? LOL, not a chance. Rinse and repeat

[Keys]

Official injury list (10) released 20/8

Season (10) :
• Noah Long (Knee)
• Elijah Hewett (Foot)
• Tyler Brockman (Ankle)
• Callum Jamieson (Ankle/Knee)
• Dom Sheed (Foot/Hamstring)
• Luke Edwards (Concussion)
• Josh Rotham (Abdominal)
• Tom Barrass (Back/Hamstring) - Was 1-2 weeks
• Jeremy McGovern (Thumb) - New
• Jamaine Jones (Concussion) - New

It’s the last game of the season so all players are now listed as out for the season

Chesser and Burgiel have both been removed from the list after recovering from their respective injuries

Andrew Gaff has retired and won’t be available to play

 

[Nuke Fremantle]

4 players have had/will have surgery since January; Ryan,Flynn,HEdwards and now Hewett. Allen won't go under the knife but has a LTI.

We're one game into our season.

 

[Boohemian]

Damn. We shouldn't have played Hewitt in the ruck so early.

 

[ziad]

Hewett - mm raises real questions about the due diligence pre draft. Its after all isn't a new issue..
Worst case we split a pick for a plodder and a cripple.

Best case is we are in the long game and bringing together/developing to be at our best of later seasons.

I am on the long train and minor issues haven't changed our trajectory at all.

 

[TY24]

Oscar Allen and Flynn Rider and Hewett won't be back this season, put a fork in em, they're done, and if they try to bring em back in this year they'll do permanent damage and won't see em again.

Where’d you get your medical degree?

 

[ziad]

Where’d you get your medical degree?

Balga TAFE

 

[TY24]

Balga TAFE

‘School of Hard Knocks/University of Life’

 

[eaglevision]

Oscar Allen and Flynn Rider and Hewett won't be back this season, put a fork in em, they're done, and if they try to bring em back in this year they'll do permanent damage and won't see em again.

You just don’t learn do you? What’s the permanent damage regarding Hewett’s already chronic condition you’re referring to? Which studies or even anecdotes following return to AFL after distal hamstring avulsion reattachment are you basing Flynn’s claim on? What’s Oscar’s diagnosis? Before you say “bone stress”, that is not a diagnosis. If you’re going to reference published articles from your “studies” again, make sure you get the correct part of the body this time.

 

[FKASC]

‘School of Hard Knocks’

Concussion doctor I take it

 

[Spooky17]

Hewitt > Hewett.

We should have drafted the other one.

Jokes - I’m confident he’ll come back fitter and stronger. Gotta be patient with the young guns.

 

[JoshWoodenSpoon]

Yeah think Hewett makes room for MSD

Damn I knew they were removing a bone but downgrading form big to mid is a real tough pill to swallow.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Brander might finally be getting his chance to be a key forward.

 

[Cuzz09]

Hopefully some Buddy like freak bobs up in a local league and we take them pick 1 MSD and he changes footy forever

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[BeornJ]

JUST PUMP GAMES INTO SOMEBODY DAMMIT!

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Quickly running out of interest and things to root for in this s**t season already.

I like the guy in the underwear's passion. Play him, looks like he gives a sh*t at least

 

[BeornJ]

Hopefully some Buddy like freak bobs up in a local league and we take them pick 1 MSD and he changes footy forever

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Good point.

So there is hope...

 

[Dom sheed pocket]

Hewett - mm raises real questions about the due diligence pre draft. Its after all isn't a new issue..
Worst case we split a pick for a plodder and a cripple.

Best case is we are in the long game and bringing together/developing to be at our best of later seasons.

I am on the long train and minor issues haven't changed our trajectory at all.

Clubs don’t do medicals on draftees, the AFL does.

 

[Trouto]

15 days ago

"Oscar’s had a really good pre-season. He had a bit of knee soreness last week, so we took the opportunity to rest him and we expect him to train next week and be ready for round one,” High Performance Manager Mathew Inness told westcoasteagles.com.au.

... with dynamic second-year player Elijah Hewett making strong progress from sesamoiditis. Elijah is back out there running. He’s feeling really good. He’s pain-free for the first time in about two years, which is great news,” Inness said.

A shiny gold star for the first journalist who sits down next to a West Coast executive and asks them the really really obvious question arising from the above.

Why does the club keep clearing people to play or train only for it to be made abundantly clear a few days or weeks later they were not remotely right to play or train?

its like the club is trying to placate the rabid fans or something...

 

[Nuffington Post]

Clubs don’t do medicals on draftees, the AFL does.

The other question is could we have been more proactive in rehabilitating the injury early on to prevent this?


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[squashface]

Play da youf. Darling to midfield.

 

[ziad]

Clubs don’t do medicals on draftees, the AFL does.

Due diligence goes well beyond the medical process.

 

[PremiershipNo4]

JUST PUMP GAMES INTO SOMEBODY DAMMIT!

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Quickly running out of interest and things to root for in this s**t season already.

I have never run out of things to root for, any excuse for me.

 

[stallon]

Hewett - mm raises real questions about the due diligence pre draft. Its after all isn't a new issue..
Worst case we split a pick for a plodder and a cripple.

GWS drafted a guy at pick 3 just a couple years ago with the same issue, and they knew about it. I wouldnt stress

 

[Dom sheed pocket]

Due diligence goes well beyond the medical process.

The exact same thing happened to Callaghan.

From memory, there was no talk of foot injury with Callaghan pre daft and it was discovered when he joined the club, and that had been dealing with soreness in his draft year.

Do you think 17 year old boys are confessing all the sins and tweaks to people around which may harm their chances of getting drafted?

The way the system is designed disincentivises complete transparency.

Given talk of clubs like Essendon and St Kilda wanting to trade up for Hewett late in the first round, my guess is they didn’t know either. So our due diligence is no worse than theirs.

It’s a case of Hewett being a naughty boy, but not a big deal in the scheme of things. It’s hardly a cardinal sin.

We get it sorted, educate him about the need to be open and transparent about his body and any niggles and move on.

 

[ziad]

GWS drafted a guy at pick 3 just a couple years ago with the same issue, and they knew about it. I wouldnt stress

I am not, I am seeing the longer term.

 

[Truckosaurus]

pre daft

A typo but I'm fully on board with calling it the AFL National Daft

 

[WCErevival]

Regarding Hewett, I dont understand how removing one of the bones from his feet is going to not cause issues. Wont it just stress the other bone left in there? I mean I get for a regular person it would be ok but an athlete will be putting a lot of stress through their foot.