Feel for this kid. Unfortunately i can see him being torched by our illustrious leader as he desperately hangs on to his job. Should never have played last night after being concussed and a short turn around. Shows how desperate Dimma is getting when he has to rush back a 2nd year player as he is one of our best.
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Nick Vlastuin
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He was a shadow of his normal composed good decision maker self last night. No coincidence he was concussed 6 days earlier. Staggered really that the doctor allowed him to play given the stance on concussion these days.
Smoking Aces said:
He said before the start of the season that he'll play 100% in the backline at the moment but was hoping for a couple of minutes in the midfield. Said he thinks he has to work on his tank more to be able to run with the elite midfielders, hopefully over the next pre-season or two.
B1 and B2 said:
You play any fit player before a player who is suffering the the effects of conscussion. Just a very dumb and potentially damaging decision to play him this week.
What a lot of trot.....Bullarto Tiger said:
At the end of the day - the club doctor, medical staff, Coach and player himself would have concluded that he was fit and capable to play.
At his age (and recovery level) the excuses and mamby pamby attitude being bandied around are frankly - SOFT!
He did not have a great game - so be it.
Either we respect (indeed reward) courage in a contact sport - or we can go and support SOCCER!
Well done Flossy.
Stand up when so many others continually fail.
P.S. If we had lost - and he had not played - we'd all be screaming at him for shirking.
That's all well and good, Sir. Yet in this day and age the issue of concussion deserves far more meaningful consideration than that based merely on a player's courage.
Passing tests etc does not necessarily mean that the brain isn't still recuperating from the trauma inflicted through conscussion.
Given his age, Vlastuin should have been rested this week and, as it turns out, his contribution wouldn't have been much different that what turned out to be on Friday night.
Passing tests etc does not necessarily mean that the brain isn't still recuperating from the trauma inflicted through conscussion.
Given his age, Vlastuin should have been rested this week and, as it turns out, his contribution wouldn't have been much different that what turned out to be on Friday night.
lol, love all the qualified doctors here making pseudo advice on nothing. I watched the replay and Vlaustin was actually quite good overall. Lots of aggression at the ball. He made a couple of silly mistakes but to say it was because of concussion is just silly. If that was the case then I am sure almost all had concussion against Collingwood.
