Was Maibaum playing against Melbourne? Before he was injured, most thought that he was developing slowly to one day replace Grundy... but now when we are running out of talls, he still has not been given any chance/ So wonder if he has really recovered from his ACL injury.
Good to know that they're back in training, but I wonder if they'll be playing any serious games? Giants, Suns and Lions academies, perhaps?
Actually, I was a bit annoyed a few weeks back, when I read that there was a plan to play a short NAB League season, but only for Victorian sides. Though I suppose now, we may not want to travel to Victoria.
I noted that Charlie Gardiner mentioned the names Ling and Thurlow, but I'm not sure he meant that they got some good training time in or actually played well. I know Thurlow has come back from surgery many months ago, but there hasn't been any mention of the state of Ling's injury issues from last year. So it's hard to say if they are being managed because of these old injuries or they're actually playing okay and available for selection. Ling hasn't appeared on the injury list any time this year, to my recollection. He's an important piece in our game plan if we're to compete for a premiership by 2023. You always want your 1st round draft pick to be a walk up selection by the 4th year, which is next year for the group that includes Ling, Stoddart, McCartin and Amartey.
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