2026 Preseason

[Thunder Shaker]

Current injury list for Sydney gathered from the AFL website:
Likely to be ready for round 0:
Isaac Heeney (hamstring)
Callum Mills (hamstring)
Tom Papley (calf)

Not available for start of season:
Taylor Adams (achilles, concussion during training)
Harry Cunningham (quadriceps) 3-5 weeks
Max King (back) - 6 months
Jevan Phillipou (quadriceps) 5-7 weeks

Concussions (during training):
Joel Amartey
Brodie Grundy

As I see it, four players will not be available for the start of the season and only one (Cunningham) is a first-23 player.

[UUaswan]

Add Ned Bowman
8 Weeks, Hammy

[rb4x]

Riak Andrew has still some suspension to serve I think

[KSAS]

I think Bice will be a good replacement for Harry. Disappointing to hear about Ned's injury as he was reportedly impressing in defence and seen as heir to Rampe.

Disappointing to see injuries to our depth and development players coming late in the preseason. It will impact our VFL team.

Riak copped a 5 week suspension back in July which he should've had fully served?

[UUaswan]

I think Bice will be a good replacement for Harry. Disappointing to hear about Ned's injury as he was reportedly impressing in defence and seen as heir to Rampe.

Disappointing to see injuries to our depth and development players coming late in the preseason. It will impact our VFL team.

Riak copped a 5 week suspension back in July which he should've had fully served?

Rampe wont know what to do with himself playing alongside 3 talls

[rb4x]

Riak copped a five week suspension on July 23 and there were only four VFL rounds after that for which one of them Sydney had a bye. Sydney did not make the finals. I am not sure how suspensions are counted in the VFL but I think Riak might still have one or two weeks to go.

[dejavoodoo44]

Riak copped a five week suspension on July 23 and there were only four VFL rounds after that for which one of them Sydney had a bye. Sydney did not make the finals. I am not sure how suspensions are counted in the VFL but I think Riak might still have one or two weeks to go.

I'm also unsure how the suspension is calculated, but if it's VFL games, then it's even more problematic. That is, the VFL starts later than the AFL, then we have a bye in round 2, so the fifth game of his suspension isn't until April 4th. In that time period we play four AFL games. Hopefully there's some sort of a more sensible formula, but I'm not really getting my hopes up.