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tony soprano said:
Should of just got the surgery earlier.
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Possibly, but we were short on troops and the medical team would be better placed to know the risks. Players carry on through injury all the time.

Given he is already back training and doesn’t appear to have any strapping suggests to me they made the right call.
 
Bones said:
Possibly, but we were short on troops and the medical team would be better placed to know the risks. Players carry on through injury all the time.

Given he is already back training and doesn’t appear to have any strapping suggests to me they made the right call.
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Fair fall we did come last tho. But get what you mean he still had a pretty good season for himself.
 
Bones said:
Possibly, but we were short on troops and the medical team would be better placed to know the risks. Players carry on through injury all the time.

Given he is already back training and doesn’t appear to have any strapping suggests to me they made the right call.
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Do you really think this is true?
On quite a few occasions this year, he was a liability right from the kickoff due to his injuries. The poor fella couldn't run. He had to succumb in a few instances, leaving the team a man short. They'd give him a week or two to recuperate and shove him back out there....still injured.
I thought it was quite negligent to be honest.
 
hank37w said:
Apparently he was pretty close with Sheens.

That went well.
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He openly admitted on the dt pod how well he gets a long with the parra ceo. So we know where the bias is coming from.

Pretty desperate move from Eels regardless
 
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Tucker said:
Do you really think this is true?
On quite a few occasions this year, he was a liability right from the kickoff due to his injuries. The poor fella couldn't run. He had to succumb in a few instances, leaving the team a man short. They'd give him a week or two to recuperate and shove him back out there....still injured.
I thought it was quite negligent to be honest.
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Did you see the alternatives play? A liability who topped our try scoring and was second in average run meters for the club. The sad reality is even on 1 leg Ken was still far better than any of the other options.

As long as there is no risk of long term damage and the player is happy to battle on then I have no problem. I don’t think any of us are in a position to call it negligent unless you have all the details, which we don’t.
 
Demps said:
Gotta disagree with you on that one...

I have seen him have a couple of good games though but he is Aaron Woods like - arse runner.

Turns back in the tackles and is mostly ineffective.
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RCG is on the decline. He’s still got some good in him compared to Woods but he is slowly declining. As you said earlier Parra are on the decline too with no good juniors coming through. This season and last season was Eels last chance of winning the premiership they won’t be in contention for at least 5 years onwards.
 
tony soprano said:
Fair fall we did come last tho. But get what you mean he still had a pretty good season for himself.
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I get what you mean there wasn’t much to gain by playing on, and if he missed the whole preseason recovering I’d agree. He was still a lot better than the guys that played when he was out.
 
Bones said:
Did you see the alternatives play? A liability who topped our try scoring and was second in average run meters for the club. The sad reality is even on 1 leg Ken was still far better than any of the other options.

As long as there is no risk of long term damage and the player is happy to battle on then I have no problem. I don’t think any of us are in a position to call it negligent unless you have all the details, which we don’t.
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Irrespective of how he played, I am on record stating he was our second best player this year, there were games he should not have taken to the field for his own welfare and the the fortunes of the team. My opinion remains it was negligent to keep sending him out there towards the end. We'll see how it affects his remaining career.
 
Tucker said:
Irrespective of how he played, I am on record stating he was our second best player this year, there were games he should not have taken to the field for his own welfare and the the fortunes of the team. My opinion remains it was negligent to keep sending him out there towards the end. We'll see how it affects his remaining career.
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I remember the game against the roosters he played for a total of 20 minutes & you could clearly see from the kickoff something wasn't right.
 
tony soprano said:
Should of just got the surgery earlier.
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Maybe the coaches were insisting he play. That really irks me. We constantly hear how blokes inparticular need to open up and talk if they need help, yet how many times do we see blokes who are clearly struggling with injury being told to put the team first and she'll be right.
 
liltiger said:
Maybe the coaches were insisting he play. That really irks me. We constantly hear how blokes inparticular need to open up and talk if they need help, yet how many times do we see blokes who are clearly struggling with injury being told to put the team first and she'll be right.
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Yeh odd one considering a few players got told to have the year off.
 
liltiger said:
Maybe the coaches were insisting he play. That really irks me. We constantly hear how blokes inparticular need to open up and talk if they need help, yet how many times do we see blokes who are clearly struggling with injury being told to put the team first and she'll be right.
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Our coach at that time was an amateur. In fact he was an amateur for nearly half a season.
 
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