I’d sack him on Monday if he or his team had any say on Clarke going back on today at the VFL game.
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Luke Meehan and Conditioning team
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So footballers shouldnt go back after theyve been strapped up and tested it out?
So no playing through the niggle?
Depends what it is, that didn't appear to be similar to restrapping an ankle to immobilise the movement (ie. to seriously reduce the risk of reinjuring it.
That'd be decided between the DR and the Physio who were looking after the team.
THe post was that it was negligent to send a footballer back out who had an injury.
That occurs in every match, at all levels.
At the AFL there are medicos who have the expertise to diagnose and assess potential for further damage.
We dont even know if Clarke further injured it or if that was the state of the original injury.
The hysteria of the site at the moment is out of hand.
Has no one played footy?
Or are we all soccer moms?
Clarke got injured. Strapped up. Tried to continue. Body didnt hold up so he came off.
I am betting Liam Baker will play today with his knee similarly strapped
My personal view is that I don’t have one, primarily because I haven’t got a clue.
We have a lot of injuries but they are a variety. Soft tissue, contact injuries, stress fractures.
In the end we have to trust the management of the football club that they will be looking into the cause and what needs to change. That may be personnel related, it could be in the way we train, the type of training loads we put on young players and perhaps praying
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Whilst in the end it may be cause and effect, just making the judgement that we have a lot of injuries so the head of strength and conditioning is no good is imo a judgement made with too little actual knowledge.
Some of it is bad luck for sure.
We have a lot of injuries but they are a variety. Soft tissue, contact injuries, stress fractures.
In the end we have to trust the management of the football club that they will be looking into the cause and what needs to change. That may be personnel related, it could be in the way we train, the type of training loads we put on young players and perhaps praying
.Whilst in the end it may be cause and effect, just making the judgement that we have a lot of injuries so the head of strength and conditioning is no good is imo a judgement made with too little actual knowledge.
Some of it is bad luck for sure.
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Three years since our last flag and we have the return of the "heads must roll" mentality.
We'd be playing six a side touch footy if players couldn't get strapped and play.
I agree on the hysteria comments on here and I haven't said anything against Meehan until the Clarke injury yesterday which with the level of strapping should have meant that they were suitably concerned about the injury. I'd have thought with the level of injuries that we have through the AFL squad that any potential injury like that would have been played with the highest level of caution, but maybe with Yassine going down with an injury in the 2nd quarter too, maybe they were trying to see if Juddy could stay out there for the extra rotation.
I'm not sure Meehan is the one deciding whether to send players back on, at AFL or VFL level. Don't we have a doctor?
Mate, Sheehan picks the team, decides on interchange, assesses players ability to continue in real time, and makes the tea and coffee at board meetings.
Strange how people are having a go at our Strength & Conditioning coach.
