Our injury list is almost the exact same as thsi time last year. 10-12 players including multiple season ending.

And it was probably a similar story in 2022-23.

Yep....and, for those who don't think we can blame injuries for our bad start this year, its worse this year in first 5 rounds than previous 2 years.

Round 6 vs Cats this year was our smallest list of injured players for the last 3 years with only 5 out injured compared to 12 same time last year, and interesting to note we had 12 out vs Cats last year in round 6. Last year same round vs Swans we had 10 out injured, this year 11.

Not only that, Curnow Harry and Walsh were not fit to start their 2025 H & A season.

Its just been Bad luck.

Williams and Fantasia are the constants from those years. One more year for Williams. Can't see Fantasia on our list next year.
Kemp has done his 2nd ACL. All the others is just bad luck.

All this changes after the Bye. Fingers crossed no injuries vs GWS this week, and we should have only Smith and Kemp out for year, and Newman, Cottrell and Fantasia on the cusp of a return in 1-2-3 rounds after bye.

WE can only afford 5 more losses if Finals is the goal.
We can only afford 3 more losses if Top 4 is the goal.

Who says the season is over?

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Not just the injuries themselves, but it's hard to judge how much of a spanner it threw into the works to have H and EH rule themselves out with mh/personal issues on the eve of a new season. It spreads uncertainty because you can't easily plan around indefinite absences, and in addition to the Jagga injury it dampened the mood around the club considerably.

voss isn't a good coach ... i'm sure we can all agree.

was watching some damning footage of weitering from friday night. how many times have we watched a spud forward, or a defender moonlighting as a forward (as was the case friday night) completely take weitering out of the play. running him back to the square, giving him a tour of the weakside boundary line away from play.

why wouldn't coaching want weitering more involved? send haynes to the spud, and let weitering move higher up the ground to spoil and intercept where the ball is going.

same as BV's obsverations ... when you know cripps only runs one way, and he's being beaten soundly and can't get near it. head him off into the F50 for a breather to break the tag.

so many opportunities to move some magnets and potentially change a game's outcomes, and our coach and his staff are way beyond passive and heading into incompetence, imo ...