: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:28 pm  

Glenn has a rib cartilage injury. Would have thought he'll be out for a couple of weeks.

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:29 pm  

redeverready wrote:

A question was asked the other day about how important is Morrison too us.

2007 we won 60% of our games with him and 75% of our games with out him.

2008 we won 40% of our games with him and 55% of our games with out him.

2009 we won 28% of our games with him and 50% of our games with out him.

He's a good player, but he's certainley not as important, good and irreplaceable to us as some seem to think he is.

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:28 pm  

Terry Monster wrote:

You can't say who will be injured or not, they can happen to anybody, but it's got to be sending alarm bells ringing, that Morrison is picking up injury after injury and missing losts of games for us. As for better or as good as Glenn, there are many forwards available every single year that can do the job as good and better than him, one of them was on show today that we could have chased instead of offering an injury prone oldie a new deal. Ironically, he tore us a new a$$hole this afternoon.

Who?

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:30 pm  

debaser wrote:

Who?

Tony Puletua.

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:30 pm  

debaser wrote:

Who?

So you would rather keep a player who's missing more games than he plays.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:30 am  

Terry Monster wrote:

Tony Puletua.

Oh, I didn't know we had been in the running for him.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:58 am  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

Perhaps you could supply a list of players as good or better than Glenn who definitely won't be injured next season.

Whilst you cannot tell who is going to be injured or not in advance, I would say that it was safe to predict that, given Morrisons' injury record over the last three seasons, he is more likely to spend time on the treatment table than most.

Morrison is more like a tampon than ever these days.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:52 am  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

Perhaps you could supply a list of players as good or better than Glenn who definitely won't be injured next season. :wink:

Exactly.

Morrison has made over 250 career appearances, not exactly a career blighted by recurring injury.

He is not injury prone in the accepted medical sense ie he does have a physical problem that makes him more prone to injury than other athletes.

His recent injuries have not been age related, of the "wear and tear" type that do happen to players of his age.

He does have a very physical approach, we could do with a few more players of that ilk. And he has been very unlucky recently.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:12 am  

[quote="chris20"]Glenn has a rib cartilage injury. Would have thought he'll be out for a couple of weeks.[/quote]

He'll be out for longer than that if he's done that

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:40 am  

Cibaman wrote:

Exactly.

Morrison has made over 250 career appearances, not exactly a career blighted by recurring injury.

In the interests of fairness, we will compare.

Morrison has made 264 league appearance plus 4 rep apps. Compare that to, say, Keiron Cunningham who is younger but also no stranger to the treatment table. KC has 419 club apps and 23 rep apps.

Or Keith Senior who is the same age - 439 club apps and 41 rep apps.

Or even Steve Menzies who also spent practically all his career down under. 18 months older, but his 364 club appearance plus 35 rep apps are considerably more.

As good as Morrison is, (and there is no doubt that he is very good), he is not much use sitting in the stands and taking up an assumed decent pay packet that could be better spent elsewhere.