Carlton Supporters Club

Name    Injury    Onset    Return   
Tom Barrass    Hip joint tear   Pre-season    Round 6   
Darren Glass    Hip tightness   Round 4    Round 5   
Shannon Hurn    MCL strain (right knee)   Round 2    Round 8   
Mark LeCras    Fractured forearm   Round 3    Round 9   
Chris Masten    Hamstring strain   Round 3    Round 5   
Nic Naitanui    General soreness   Round 4    Round 5   
Matthew Rosa    Illness   Round 4    Round 5   
Beau Waters    Shoulder surgery   Pre-season    Season   

Couldn't find a threasd so.....

WCE have some injury issues:

http://injuryupdate.com.au/afl-west-coast-eagles-injury-list.php

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Name    Injury    Onset    Return   
Tom Barrass    Hip joint tear   Pre-season    Round 6   
Darren Glass    Hip tightness   Round 4    Round 5   
Shannon Hurn    MCL strain (right knee)   Round 2    Round 8   
Mark LeCras    Fractured forearm   Round 3    Round 9   
Chris Masten    Hamstring strain   Round 3    Round 5   
Nic Naitanui    General soreness   Round 4    Round 5   
Matthew Rosa    Illness   Round 4    Round 5   
Beau Waters    Shoulder surgery   Pre-season    Season   

Definitely no Hurn, Le cras,, Waters. Possibly Xavier Ellis, maybe Nic Nat a doubtful?

In:  McLean, Graham, Jammo,


Out:  Judd, Curnow, Cripps,

Cripps:  give him a breather

White will again be needed for match ups, probably Darling 191cm 93kg (scary thought). Dougherty unfortunately would not be big enough. Graham has more pace than Cripps at this stage.

Cachia for Curnow
Robinson for Bell
Menzel for Judd
Jamison for White

One good game from Garlett and Armfield is probably not enough for a recall although I'm not sure what happened to Mitch Robinson this week?

Jamison, Rowe and Everrit should be ok to cover Kennedy, Darling and a resting Ruckman.

How do you pick a result with both sides shadows of their full strength outfits.
We've had a bit of a discussion about the effect of injuries on a club's season in the last few weeks.
Five weeks in... and this year's injury toll is creeping right up there to rival some of those.

Curnow is a huge loss and critical to our plans.

The luxury of playing three tall forwards may not be available to us again this week because there is no way known that we can hope to win with Rowe & White minding Darling & Kennedy. Those two will run riot unless we use Henderson in defence which also snookers the forward plan from last night.

If we had another key tall we could solidly depend on, we may be able to get away with it.

Could Jamison be brought in to take Kennedy and just hope that one of the others can hold Darling in check ??

    

Injuries are going to hurt us but how we cover them and with whom is going to give a clear indication of how good our depth is at present.

Given that Cripps had that youthful temerity to go in and stick up for White as well as laugh in Crameri's face should be seen as a strong pointer as to why we need to keep giving the younger guys a game.

We have nothing to gain from continually turning over the same players who keep making the same mistakes, our future is dependent on the next group of young players stepping up to senior level.

This is not to say 'gift' games when unwarranted, just feel that some young guys in the team will add a new psyche to the group and hopefully some much needed vocals as well.