A morbid topic, but like the Brad Moran, here’s another one-stop shop for one of those things that has us tearing our hair out weekly.

Dating back to losing Kouta and Bradley in the opening minutes against a rampant (and likely doped up) Scum in 2000, losing players we can least afford to early on is something we’ve become all too used to over a long time.

So let’s keep track of our early limpers to see how this year rates, and speculate over which utterly crucial player will hobble off minutes into this week’s game.

Hopefully there be a few zeroes on this, but given how we lost Doch, and our first few rounds, this year could be nasty. But if nothing else we can see in full view just how badly this flowers us over year after year.

Round 1: Kreuzer, Kennedy
Round 2: Byrne
Round 3: Marchbank
Round 4: Murphy
Round 5: No-one
Round 6: Kreuzer
Round 7: Marchbank, Curnow
Round 8: Lebois
Round 9: Kennedy
Round 10: Macreadie
Round 11: Williamson
Round 12: No-one
Round 13: A Silvagni
Round 14: Casboult, Plowman, Kreuzer
Round 15: No-one
Round 16: Simpson, Philips (Marchbank and Weitering late)
Round 17: Kreuzer (AGAIN!!!)
Round 18: Fisher, Jones, Kerr, Le Bois (VFL)
Round 19: No-one
Round 20: J Silvagni
Round 21: Kreuzer (AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!)
Round 22:
Round 23:

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You can probably pencil in Kreuzer for at least five or six of those weeks now..

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You can probably pencil in half the posters in the match day thread too

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Must be due to lose Cripps for a few weeks.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

Agreed. Cripps.
And Daisy maybe

Melbourne game for Cripps imo. They mark it in their calendars each year.

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#GUILTY

Given that Marchbank is out for a month we’re now odds on to lose a defender in the first quarter.

Weitering.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

I'd prefer we lose Weitering in the warmup TBQH

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O say does that star spangled banner yet wave.

Classy

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

I'm going with Garlett.

I have a feeling we'll see Kennedy on this list quite a lot; he's in a high-impact role and has been hurt a fair bit already.

Weitering won't get hurt until he finds form, so he's out of contention for the next few weeks at least.

It has to be a defender, and it has to be one we're excited and optimistic about.

Round 4: Cuningham.

Ziebell

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Murphy limping around now...

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I'm blaming you Donstuie.

Murph injured in the warm up. Confirmed out

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We are on our way back...

Consider this thread therapy.

Wanna hug it out?

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

Well you could, but there would probably be an injury

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You bastards were just taunting Ganesh

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Jinxed by this thread.

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Need more than a hug, sadly.

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We are on our way back...

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY