Given his month of below par form (including last night), I'm thinking he must be carrying some sort of injury.

I have the feeling something will be revealed now the season's over.

What are your thoughts?

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Surely it's his foot still troubling him since the Geelong game...

Clearly wasn't right, and if its indeed true that they put the cue in the rack against the aints, he shouldn't have played.

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Agreed. St Kilda was definitely a "tank" so should have rested him.

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Last month we have played all top 8 teams and 2 finals

The fact that no one ever gives him a chop out and the umpires continue to allow players to turn their back on the ball to stop his run is all that is wrong - Sure he might not be a 100 % but for a bloke not being 100% have you ever seen him fly for marks like he has been doing

Nothing wrong with him except Ratts refusal to play players that provide the chop out - some one should have come through and knock the stuffing out of Selwood in the first 5 minutes of the game - do fairly and do it hard - We have no one other than Robbo who does this - We need a couple of hard nuts and won't go much further until we find them

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not much further - @#$%&! few points and we are in the prelim!

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Given the club's recent history on injured players plausible but once you cross the white line no excuses.


Maybe baby Oscar.

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If we have no-one other than Robbo, how is Ratts refusing to play players that provide a chop out?

West Coast finished stone motherless last in 2010- remember or do we forget that

We did not beat a team above us all year - We are not moving anywhere until we fix few glaring area's of our list and structure

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He clearly appears to be carrying some form of injury but seems unlikely to be the Geelong foot b/c since then he's played several '3 vote' blinders.
It is also possible that teams have found a way to limit his influence and we'll have summer to work out how to deal with it.

These are the things that are determined by coaches.

Worsfold is a crafty engineer and excellent strategist in this respect.

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Only way to deal with the off the ball stuff is for your teamates to stand up to the m**ther F***ers on the ground and announce it's not on.

Yep . Injured I reckon or other things on his mind.

Ignoring the fact he had a break the previous week and would have been short a run against Essendon* if he hadn't played against St Kilda...

Can either of you provide us with a rundown on the extent of his 'injury', how it responded to treatment and whether it was the type of injury that improves with rest?

I thought it was the Melbourne game he hurt his foot in and like everyone here don't have a clue whether it was serious enough to effect the remainder of his season.

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What has West Coast's 2010 season got to do with anything? Gee I was feeling ok about things until I read a few of your posts this morning.

Robbo from the Hun blamed baby Oscar for Judd's "quiet" month.

You could clearly see last night that he could only run with some pace for about 15 meters before he slowed down. He looked as though he was about 70%. Something has been holding him back.

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The guy is obviously restricted. Could tell during the Hawks game, when Lewis got rave reviews. In the following 4 weeks nothing changed. The media said the opposition have found a new way to curb his influence. Bullshit.

Our coaches certainly didn't instruct anyone to block or help Judd out, which is interesting.

Judd's played the sacrificial role, particularly against WCE, a few times. He got plenty of attention , but it his lack of touches was not the main problem, we just got obliterated at the stoppages in every department.

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