Williams Injury

[EMJ]

As per usual no information forthcoming from the club or anywhere. Small bit intoday's Sydney Morning Herald - but reads 50-50 chance of Warfe playing 100th game this weekend. Does that mean no chance of Williams playing this week?
Come on Sydney Swans Club wake up and support the supporters.

[barry]

From the look of him on Sunday, I'd say he'd be very doubtful this weekend. Should be ok for Anzac day though.

[Charlie]

Perhaps that's why Warfe is being persevered with? Fair enough... I reckon he deserves 2 or 3 more to find form, before he's G-O-N-E.

Willo didn't look to good on Sunday, but Crouchy came back from a similar injury last year without missing a match... so I guess he's a maybe.

Charlie

[penga]

Originally posted by Charlie
Perhaps that's why Warfe is being persevered with? Fair enough... I reckon he deserves 2 or 3 more to find form, before he's G-O-N-E.

Willo didn't look to good on Sunday, but Crouchy came back from a similar injury last year without missing a match... so I guess he's a maybe.

Charlie

crouchy didnt sleep for like 3 days or something to get over it, ie he was icing it at regular intervals

[Mike_B]

Knowing our medical staff, Willo won't be right for this week's game. We are atrocious at getting players back on the field in the same time it takes other clubs to get their players with the same injuries back playing.

Look at Hird, corky against Melb, back out there 6 days later. Can you see Willo playing? Unfortunately, I can't, based purely on past experience.

[NMWBloods]

As soon as I saw Willo go off, I was pretty confident he would miss a week!!

[motorace_182]

He will probably miss 1 week. Crouchy ices for hours after every game to keep that streak in tact

[bomber-princess]

williams injury

the swans official website and other afl associated websites are saying that paul williams is facing a fitness test to play this weekend as it was just a corked thigh.
Both websites are saying that Rowan is also facing a fitness test this week to play his 100th.
I hope both players pass the tests and play this weekend.

[skilts stilts]

I too hope that Warfe gets to play his 100th this week.Unlike most I rate him quite highly,and still remember him as part of that dynamic defence with Heuskes Seymour and Dunkley.All hard nuts prepared to back their ability and with the exception of one, run hard through the lines. He has missed a lot of footy and will surely improve as the weeks go by.Duds like Schauble ,Barry and Saddington have little scope for improvement and have shown themselves to be inadequate or unreliable.

[snajik]

Originally posted by skilts stilts
I too hope that Warfe gets to play his 100th this week.Unlike most I rate him quite highly,and still remember him as part of that dynamic defence with Heuskes Seymour and Dunkley.

Warfe and Heuskes never played together I'm afraid. Warfe joined in 1997. Heuskes left after the GF. Still, I agree, Warfe can be a good player. He has lost a lot of game time over the past few seasons due to injury, and will need to string some games together to return to his form of the late 90s. Another injury plagued year though could see the end of him.

[skilts stilts]

At my age,you tend to lose a few memory cells.

[Nico]

Warfe was probably playing his best footy of his career when he did his shoulder. He hasn't played with much confidence since (overhead he is ordinary), and he hasn't been able to string together enough games to get back any 'touch".

At his age it hard to see him regaining his best.

I would suggest that some players are being held on to purely for depth, no matter how questionable that may make the depth.

In 3 years you would hope that they would be replaced by far superior players, but in the meantime we have to put up with it, and hope we perform OK and not get flogged too often. They seem to have enough substance to be competetive against most sides.

[motorace_182]

Hopefully they are planning to ship him out once his ton is reached so they can benefit from any offspring of his. He WAS a good player. Now he is just a hole in our backline who could have been had it not been for certain incidents

[gloveski]

His strength when we first got him was his marks.

I can remeber watching a preseason game in 97 against Essendon at Hobart were he must have taken 15 marks and was lined up on Hird and gave him an absolute towelling.

But look like injuries may have taken their toll

[Charlie]

Originally posted by motorace_182
Hopefully they are planning to ship him out once his ton is reached so they can benefit from any offspring of his. He WAS a good player. Now he is just a hole in our backline who could have been had it not been for certain incidents

I'm afraid if that's the plan then he'll have to stick around another year. On Saturday he'll play his 74th game for Sydney, after playing 26 games for Fitzroy.

Charlie