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03-23-2023, 04:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-23-2023, 04:16 AM by Mav.)
10 weeks seems extreme. This isn’t a boy who was injured in the U/11s. He’s a professional footballer who will be provided with the best medical and rehabilitation services. A few screws and painkilling injections will reduce the rehab time dramatically. That doesn’t mean I would condemn him if he chose to recover more slowly for the best result in the long term. But you look at Daniel Chick having a finger amputated so he could return to the field quickly and it’s pretty obvious players will try to accelerate their recovery as much as humanly possible.
I remember seeing a doctor about a badly-strained ankle I copped in a footy game. I asked him how many weeks I’d miss and he said in a huff that I should rest it for a year but no footy player ever listened to him and no doubt I’d be playing in a couple of weeks.
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(03-23-2023, 12:51 AM)Mav link Wrote:Anyone see Bartel on Footy Classified? He ran clips showing how Cameron and Hawkins connect a lot better than Harry and Charlie. To his credit, Harry runs well up the ground to offer a target for our defenders but when he wheels around to target Charlie he drops it on his head (or worse, kicks to the advantage of the opposition). One example was a kick that forced Charlie to sit under the ball, allowing Grimes to manhandle him until the ball spilled. On the other hand, Bartel showed examples where immediately after Cameron wheels around he locates Hawkins and drops the ball into the “swimming pool” on the opposite side of Hawkins’ opponent. He says he doesn’t need to be too precise as long as it allows Hawkins to move to it.
We really need Harry and Charlie to have big nights together. At the moment, they are really Plan A and Plan B - when 1 is quiet we hope the other fires.
The problem with those analyses is that the "expert" cherrypicks footage that backs up their position. Cameron does play a lot through the midfield, but not as a marking target from wing to halfback as Harry and Charlie often do. Cameron is often involved in chains of possessions that provide Hawkins with time and space to lead. I imagine that Cameron and Hawkins were presented with more opportunities to score than Harry and Charlie but Charlie averaged more goals per game than Hawkins and Harry averaged slightly less that Cameron. Then there's Stengle chipping in with just over 2 goals per game while our third best goal scorer was Crippa with 20. Having a third forward target capable of averaging 2 goals a game would make life a lot easier for Harry and Charlie.
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Has Cameron's wife had her baby yet?
This is now the longest premiership drought in the history of the Carlton Football Club - more evidence of climate change?
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