Callinan injured

[tferrier18]

"Callinan has ripped his bicep muscle, looks like a long term injury, 6 - 10 weeks maybe"

From the live chat coverage of Adel vs Carl today. Head to adelaide's website to see it.

[Titan Tim]

"Callinan has ripped his bicep muscle, looks like a long term injury, 6 - 10 weeks maybe"

From the live chat coverage of Adel vs Carl today. Head to adelaide's website to see it.

http://www.afc.com.au/season2011/nabchallengeliveadelaidevcarlton/tabid/17232/default.aspx

[Alex7089]

Well that sucks, but at least now I have 1 less Crow :P

[nathan11]

ADELAIDE has lost key forwards Kurt Tippett and Ricky Henderson to injury in the opening minutes of its practice match against Carlton.

[MightyLions]

Damn, nice cheap rookie! That hurts..

[enzedder]

"Callinan has ripped his bicep muscle, looks like a long term injury, 6 - 10 weeks maybe"

From the live chat coverage of Adel vs Carl today. Head to adelaide's website to see it.

Well that's another one out...one less rookie option and likely that more teams will look the same in the bench department

[Alex7089]

ADELAIDE has lost key forwards Kurt Tippett and Ricky Henderson to injury in the opening minutes of its practice match against Carlton.

Good news for McKernan, if they are still out come Round 1 I'd expect him to play :)

[Talisman]

Greaaaaaat!  ::)

Well ladies & gents, who do we replace Callinan with?? Any bright ideas?

I reckon he was on a lot of people's fwd bench... Might sound silly, but would upgrading him slightly to Ryan Gamble be a stupid idea?? ($$ permitting of course) Cos I can't really think of any other great replacements who should get game time out there... Talia? (though I'm not sure on his job-sec with Otten & Davis in the team - both very similar types I think) Tapscott? Darling? (he's in a rubbish team tho) How about Viv Michie from Freo?? I've heard/read the odd thing about this guy - anyone know what his job-sec/scoring potential might be this year?? Know Harvs loves the kids!

[MightyLions]

Greaaaaaat!  ::)

Well ladies & gents, who do we replace Callinan with?? Any bright ideas?

I reckon he was on a lot of people's fwd bench... Might sound silly, but would upgrading him slightly to Ryan Gamble be a stupid idea?? ($$ permitting of course) Cos I can't really think of any other great replacements who should get game time out there... Talia? (though I'm not sure on his job-sec with Otten & Davis in the team - both very similar types I think) Tapscott? Darling? (he's in a rubbish team tho) How about Viv Michie from Freo?? I've heard/read the odd thing about this guy - anyone know what his job-sec/scoring potential might be this year?? Know Harvs loves the kids!

Mckernan or Tapscott?

[enzedder]

Greaaaaaat!  ::)

Well ladies & gents, who do we replace Callinan with?? Any bright ideas?

I reckon he was on a lot of people's fwd bench... Might sound silly, but would upgrading him slightly to Ryan Gamble be a stupid idea?? ($$ permitting of course) Cos I can't really think of any other great replacements who should get game time out there... Talia? (though I'm not sure on his job-sec with Otten & Davis in the team - both very similar types I think) Tapscott? Darling? (he's in a rubbish team tho) How about Viv Michie from Freo?? I've heard/read the odd thing about this guy - anyone know what his job-sec/scoring potential might be this year?? Know Harvs loves the kids!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...is a problem atm. I was thinking which mid benchy now but I just checked my team and he's on my fwd bench so I don't know who to replace him with yet either. Hope it becomes clearer in the next cpl of weeks.

[BratPack]

Depends if you've taken him as a fwd or a mid. If you took him as a mid....there was a report in the Herald Sun saying Jarrad Irons could play in Rd 1

[Talisman]

Yeah, Tapscott was one of my initial thoughts.
(Sorry BP, thought I alluded to it - he was on my fwd bench)
Now I'm thinking about downgrading Liam Anthony to Gaff (gun rookie) & upgrading Callinan to Chris Knights (probably on par with Liam Anthony, in that he could ave. 90's if he catches fire, but both have injury question marks)... Thoughts on this option??

[BratPack]

Too many questions on Knights and Anthony will probably score more. Bad option IMO

[Talisman]

I should've mentioned, that doing that (L.Anthony & Callinan to Gaff & Knights) also allows me to upgrade Duffield to Broughton...

So it's actually: L.Anthony, Callinan & Duffield to/vs. Gaff, Knights & Broughton...

So, worthwhile? Or still a bad move - better to just simply swap Callinan to Darling (or similar), & keep L.Anthony & Duffman??

[BratPack]

I guess it depends how much you trust Knights. I don't so I may be biased, I don't think Broughton provides enough of a difference to make it worthwhile.