Lance Whitnall

[barry]

Whitnal

Should be go after big red and plonk him at FF ?

He meets all our recruitment requirements: Old and Slow.

[Jeffers1984]

$?

[desredandwhite]

Hah! If we actually had space on the list, then I might have been tempted to offer a spot for him. Low risk, low cost, would be able to prop up the goalsquare as a pure full-forward and boot a few goals as a short-term thing.

Fact is, it will be hard enough cutting players so that we can take our mandatory 3 picks at the draft, and you simply can't justify cutting any more kids to take an injury prone player who might have 1 or 2 years left.

[Allymay]

Do the kindest thing and roll him back into the ocean.

[AnnieH]

Is this a nightmare? Are we the rehab centre of the AFL or something?
We've done bad-boy rehab and old people rehab. Do we really need to add family problem counselling to our list?

[573v30]

Is this a nightmare? Are we the rehab centre of the AFL or something?
We've done bad-boy rehab and old people rehab. Do we really need to add family problem counselling to our list?

You also forgot weight-loss clinic.

[AnnieH]

You also forgot weight-loss clinic.

... only for Davo.

(and for Plugger if I go way, way back.)

[reigning premier]

I'd happily draft him....

Put him on minimum wage and high end match payments. If he doesn't get fit, perform well enough to make the grade, we don't have a big whole in the salary cap.

He is a very handy player that can play both ends of the ground pretty well.

[hammo]

Put him on minimum wage and high end match payments. If he doesn't get fit, perform well enough to make the grade, we don't have a big whole in the salary cap.

But the downside to this argument is that he'll take up on a space on the list which would otherwise go to an elevated rookie or a young player.

Our list does not need another 30 year old, let alone one with a chronic knee injury and who has a love for the golden arches which he hasn't been able to shake for his entire football career.

[Lucky Knickers]

He's only 28.
If he could get that body right, and that's not just the knee but the weight as well, he could be great.

Maybe a contract based on his BMI and Body Fat %

I think it's piss poor by Carlton re timing treating their club captain and a club stalwart who has stood by them during THE WORST time in the clubs' history like this. Surely the least they could have done is told him prior to trade week, particularly given they knew mid season that Judd was going to be traded.

[hammo]

If he could get that body right, and that's not just the knee but the weight as well, he could be great.

The thing about chronic knee injuries is that they tend to be chronic

[Lucky Knickers]

But that's just media talk. WTF is "Chronic"? I've heard Eades say that!
Has he had surgery?
Fix the weight, fix the knee!
You could say Tadhg's left knee is "Chronic" but we aren't chucking him.

[hammo]

Source

Carlton chief executive Greg Swann said a medical report convinced the Blues Whitnall's knee would not stand up to another AFL season.

And this:

Whitnall conceded his injury was persistent.

?It's still there but it hasn't got worse, that is what the doctors told me," Whitnall said. "They said it could get worse at some stage, but they just gave it a quick clean-out."

[NMWBloods]

MOL also has chronic knee problems.

[fil]

Lance

Lance derserves so much better. Bad luck has been his issue. A super player ad wonderful leader who knows and reads the game better than most. Not a happy Blue. 4 less memberships for 2008.