03-01-2018, 01:17 AM
(03-01-2018, 12:41 AM)mateinone link Wrote:But the onus is on you Paul as you are accusing the club of risking him being further injured and it was dumb of them to play him.
That would be like saying "Fred stole something" and then asking Fred to prove he didn't steal it, rather than having to prove he did.
I agree the forums are here for as wild as speculation as people want, but also for others to question if there is any real basis for that speculation.
So not having a go at you, just disagreeing with your assumption, which in this instance appears to be
Weiters was injured, he had a poor season, so the club managed him badly.
My assertion is that I don't see anything with the way the club manages it's players to suggest it would in fact risk Weiters unnecessarily.
Oh I don't think you are negative about Weitering at all. As you can probably tell neither am I. I just am pretty well behind the way the club is managing things (finally, after years and years of crap) and hence my response to speculation we are mismanaging players.
It's been discussed on here many times over the years (speculated, if you will) that our club has a dubious history of injury management - speculation around Kreuzer in his early years etc. In recent times, Jarrad Waite has intimated that the guys at North are better and he's been able to play more games than he would have at Carlton. If our club has been dysfunctional across many departments, it's not unreasonable to speculate that the way they deal with injuries may also be less than ideal.
(03-01-2018, 12:38 AM)LP link Wrote:And yet statistically he was barely different from 2016 to 2017.
He's a tall, and like any other tall he'll take a good 3 or 4 years to find his feet.
Which by the way highlights how good Cripps is as a midfielder, he seems to have sidestepped the 6'5" type development curve.
Stats can be problematic sometimes - we all know examples of players with 40 possies whose influence on the game is minimal. My eyes might deceive me, but I know what I see. Go back and look at the in game threads from last season. Lots of speculation around Weets.
I know he'll take a few years to sort himself out. I just don't want to see him derailed.