If Nank was feeling something in that ankle and just thought "nuh should be right to play", and then some action finally caused the injury, shouldn't that be known by the conditioning team (i.e. risk of playing)
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Be very, very unlikely. It could potentially be mistaken for a low ankle strain, which could be played through with strapping and pain relief but even on a minor injury the pain and discomfort would be significant and the player would need a lot of support to play.
These days that would be sent straight for a scan and found straight away which would be the end of any thought of playing. The reason you hear syndesmosis so much now is we have the technology to identify it, whereas in days gone by it would have been 'sprained ankle' and the potential to try and manage to play was much higher.
I feel this way as well. We need to be able to use our ruckman to be able to push forward as well. Will force us to learn a new trick or two.
In that case perhaps we should dump Jaaack n Cotch n Grub n Dusty n Flossy n Prestygiocomo n Foosh n KMac. Get rid of all the tired old farts just bobbling along n re energise with all our kids just like Hawforn are doing. Massive growth opportunity.
Bontempelli is a 5 clearance player. A bit like Taranto. He got 11 against us on Satdee. 7 in the first 35 minutes of the game. The seventh was when, in a CB set play, English slapped it clean to him and Bont flicked to a running team mate.
Samson went into the ruck and touched the ball at CB. IKR? Rout over.
Nankervis can be routed. Norfs ran the same set play on him twice in the same game last year including for the winning goal. He's not a liability in the main because he counterpunches. But he's always vulnerable to an actual ruck. Even the lowly English.
If Nank was our only injury as at R4 2023 we'd be ok. Especially with Soldo out because it forces us to develop alternatives.
Ryan must play. Cannot get a ruck contest at VFA level. He toys with them. And Miller is almost AFL level.
With two of our best three players in Lynch and Prestia out it puts a lot of pressure on. That's good.
Samson went into the ruck and touched the ball at CB. IKR? Rout over.
Nankervis can be routed. Norfs ran the same set play on him twice in the same game last year including for the winning goal. He's not a liability in the main because he counterpunches. But he's always vulnerable to an actual ruck. Even the lowly English.
If Nank was our only injury as at R4 2023 we'd be ok. Especially with Soldo out because it forces us to develop alternatives.
Ryan must play. Cannot get a ruck contest at VFA level. He toys with them. And Miller is almost AFL level.
With two of our best three players in Lynch and Prestia out it puts a lot of pressure on. That's good.
The thing is, Carts, we could test everybody else and still find we need Nank later in the year. And next year. I wouldn’t pension him off yet.
That’s not to say that Ryan won’t pass him. It’s a matter of when.
Burge totally called it last year, TT.
That said, Nank has looked free in movement and fresh in 2023.
Yea sounds strange but I’m not all that fussed , heck coll became a better side sans Grundy and he’s twice the player , I feel nank s impact has dimmed some , doesnt take as many marks as he once did and his tap work has always been average at best . Good luck to him but I’m confident miller and Ryan will fill in admirably
