2018 Rd 10: Pre Game Irritation: Carlton vs Geelong

[Thryleon]

This happens because we are a struggling side that cannot easily cover the loss of one or two players. It's not just the MC that want players back, the players themselves feel an obligation to team-mates and push themselves for early return. I heard Liddle saying on radio the other week that Doc wants back early and the club said no, but the player himself says he's right to go into full on training.

As much as we talk about technologies, Doctors are still heavily reliant of patient feedback, when things start to clear up it can be very difficult to tell if a player is right or just very convincing at arguing his case. The Biolab at our ground is one of the things researchers can use to tune players, but once you have a baseline you can also use it to measure if they are OK. It's better than average, but it's not like in engineering, where you can test something to destruction!

We must be doing something right, opposition clubs pay to use our facilities. We make them available, and rightly so, player welfare goes beyond team loyalty. Please tell that to Mr Dangerfield! He'll be one of the first up here using our facilities if he gets a serious injury, he should think about that before he pots the Curnows again!

Likewise a patient needs to be protected from themselves and perhaps we should bring blokes back via the VFL where we can see whether or not they're ok.

If they won't do that, then that's a tell on how they're really feeling.