(05-26-2016, 12:57 PM)cimm1979 link Wrote:Casboults injury is harder to judge because it's about pain usually, not damage.
That's a very interesting point, because I had heard a whisper that Casboult was unexpectedly pain free, which was the reason they sent him for a more detailed scan.
I still think he is probably borderline, do you take an early risk with a +100kg jumping marking player for a game you are probably unlikely to win? It would seem if it is just a bone bruise then another week just makes it certain.
SpecialK could well play, he played out the game and I have heard stories of blokes having a meniscus trimmed on Monday and playing a GF on Saturday. He wouldn't be the first to come back from a small meniscus tear two weeks later.
I suppose the flip side of this debate is that we are not expected to do much this year anyway. So if guys want to test their durability and it fails we don't really damage any expectations for 2016.
I think the biggest plus from all this, is that if blokes are genuinely putting their hand up to get back early then Bolton has significantly changed the Carlton culture.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"