AFL Odds: Cats Already Hurting
January 22nd, 2015 by TJ DilferThe AFL season is a long one. It rarely feels like it for the fans, who are able to just sit back and enjoy the whole show as it gets more and more tense towards the business end of the season. But for the players and the people making the big decisions at each AFL franchise, the season is a long campaign, with a ferocious battle every week. And when injuries inevitably come, they can really affect those AFL odds for your team and their chances of reaching the finals or lifting silverware.
So it’s vital to get a good, strong pre-season in to build towards each new season. What you absolutely don’t want to see, as a fan or as a coach, is players picking up injuries or breaking down in pre-season training. Spare a thought, then, for Cats coach Chris Scott, who had not one or two pieces of bad news to deal with last week, but three injury reports landing on his desk. Probably the most concerning is to potentially key recruit Mitch Clark, who has long been troubled by foot problems, but who was on a very light training schedule this week, and being very closely watched, no doubt, by a concerned staff.
Elsewhere, there are injury concerns surrounding Nathan Vardy and Steve Johnson – both key men to the Cats’ 2015 campaign. We’re not entirely sure how any of those three injuries will develop, or how long the concerns will last. Certainly, at this stage, the NAB Challenge and the start of the season are in doubt for all three men. We’ll leave it to you to decide how their potential absence affects the AFL odds we’re seeing for the Cats…
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