Eels hooker Reed Mahoney will be named for Round 18, despite suffering a shoulder injury on Sunday against the Warriors.
Coach Brad Arthur has this morning confirmed the 22-year-old is still touch and go, suffering an AC joint injury, but will be named.
Mahoney underwent scans yesterday, after leaving the field in the 52nd minute.
https://www.parraeels.com.au/news/2020/09/07/update-mahoney-shoulder-injury/
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Must mean there's no separation in the joint and decent amount of strength to have a chance this week. You don't want to aggravate it but at the same time it'd be great to have him this week.
Hope he doesn’t do further injury but mb they will rest him after imp panthers game ?..,
Yep still a couple of months of footy (hopefully) to play no point rolling the dice before you have to.
I'd say there's a bit of a "mind game" angle to this too - better that the Panthers have to plan for a Reed and/or a Stone situation than just one or the other. Would love to have his speed and running game for the Panthers, but at the same time if he needs rest prior to the finals this is the game to rest him as we're a lower % of wining this game than the others prior to the finals.
BA must be playing ducks and drakes with this surely. If he's touch and go , why would you even name him ?
it's not a must win game.
THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is exactly why I have serious doubts about our Not so Illustrious Third Rate U8s Bush Coach - -pure fukking madness the same as he nearly destroyed Moeroa when he had a shoulder injury.
Reed is like Tep and will take the field if asked to - but at what cost.
Tep was NEVER any good after what Bushy did to him by playing him with a bad shoulder injury that required surgery.
Where are our supposed medical staff and what have they decided is best for the PLAYER?
The medical staff are the ones who make the call. They're the ones who stopped him returning to the field, they're the ones who had the scans done, they're the one that would have given the info to BA.
If he's not medically fit, he won't be an option for BA. Our injury management has been one of the best in the NRL this year. Doesn't stop BA from keeping the Panthers guessing...no harm in that.
And how much pressure is placed on the medical staff to comply with a coaches wishes?
This is not an isolated Eels issue, it has been around with almost every team for yonks.
I don't know what the average career time span is for FG players but why take risks to shorten a promising career?
Cronk is possibly the only real exception here because he and the entire Rorters set up made sure he was protected to simply get the GF win. Cronk was also retiring after that match so the risk was seen to be worth it at the time.
PLAYER WELFARE MUST COME FIRST according to the NRL.
How much pressure? Probably none, because there would be clear protocols to follow.
Still, even if not, medical professionals are used to medical interventions which would routinely involve telling people they can't do things they want to do - that's probablu 90%+ of their job.
It's a contact sport played at an elite level where injuries happen. Elite contact sport is about injury management, not injury prevention. Heck so is a lot of non-contact sport - I do distance running and I am battling injury of one sort or another nearly all of the time. Where medical professionals help is planning when you can play through injury, and when it starts to become chronic. A chronic injury is useful to no one (coach, player, medical staff), a player playing through pain is par for the course.
Player welfare comes first now more than ever before in the history of the game and it's on the rise. If you only played when you were 100% injury/niggle free you'd only play the first round. Trust the system that has worked to keep us remarkably injury free in a season where injuries have been rife due to increased game time, game speed and an interrupted preseason. This is one area where our club has been successful.
Now, can you see why BA did what he did with Mahoney? He was never going to play, but, by naming him to play until Thursday afternoon forced the Panthers to train for either Mahoney or Stone at dummy half.
Now, will this minor inconvenience to the Panthers have any tangible effect? Probably not. But, if it gives us a 0.05% advantage, it would be poor coaching if BA didn't take advantage of it.
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