Bloody hell
Certainly keeping it interesting with 42 minutes per game needed for the 946 and coming off after 45.
I suspect he checked this thread at HT, and thought thatād do him for the night.
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That would be brave. Make hay while the sun shines, no?
Jack Rodwell doesnāt care for lunar cycles
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The shot of him on the bench at about 70th minute, he looked like heād already showered, changed and was ready for bed.
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Exactly. He needs to make this seasonās documentary as interesting and suspenseful as last seasonās!
Round 11 Update
As discussed during the match, the gods of the 946 decided to keep things interesting pretty much as soon as the requisite 42 weekly minutes for 946 were reached. Itās not for them to watch JR put some tarmac between this season and last - itās gonna be a fucking slog the whole way.
| Round | Minutes this week | Cumulative Minutes | 2022-23 Comparison | Minutes per game | To 828 | 828 - Regular Season | To 946 | 946 - Regular Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before Season | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 828 | 31 | 946 | 35 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 828 | 32 | 946 | 36 |
| 8 | 69 | 69 | 45 | 9 | 759 | 40 | 877 | 46 |
| 9 | 67 | 136 | 45 | 15 | 692 | 38 | 810 | 45 |
| 10 | 90 | 226 | 122 | 23 | 602 | 35 | 720 | 42 |
| 11 | 45 | 271 | 212 | 25 | 557 | 35 | 675 | 42 |
Notes etc
- 7 - his record run of consecutive games in the A-league set at the tail end of last season (which would have been longer but for a freak injury in concussion curtailing that) will remain intact until at least the last third of this season, as the current run is cut short at 4
- No need to panic? in 2022-3, he did play a full 90 minutes in the equivalent round 11, taking him to a cumulative 212 minutes. However, not only is that nearly an hour less than this time around, but he didnāt get back on the pitch after that until round 19. This means we still have a chance to see him get further ahead of last season, which I think will be bloody well needed as itās highly unlikely that heāll be able to put a similar run of games together as he did late in 22-3
- Looking ahead, since we know we wonāt see him for the next week or two, the required minutes per game will go up to 45 then 48 in the next 2 rounds as he misses those.
edit: I just realised that for my first note, my pessimism has gotten ahead of me - we donāt 100% know he wonāt play next week just yet, so his current run of games is not officially scuppered
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Iām still backing the 828 in.
I donāt think heāll get there.
Only 557 to go for that - 6 and a half games of football!
Heās got an extra game to do it, too.
You make that sound like a task a peasant could accomplish!
All Iām getting out of that is that I should double down.
The comment from Uffie was that Jack would be assessed after 24-48 hours, yet we have heard nothing. The people demand to know the truth!
Uffie also said he āfelt his calf againā, which, if taken literally, means the mysterious injury Rodwellās been battling is a bad case of paresthesia.
Probably one of those wait-and-see āone weekā injuries. I doubt the club are going to be too forthcoming about it until a journo pushes for answers.
Overs/unders as to when weāll see him again? Iāll plump for Melby City on Feb 24th
675 remaining minus two ~60 minute games when he returns is 555 minutes, or 6-point-something 90 minute games.
He probably hits his 945 in the one finals game we play, so I predict him closing out the regular season with the two partial games and six full games to put him in reach.
So returns for 60 minutes on 10-Mar-2024 at home against Brisbane for me.
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Wonāt happen.
Yeah it will. That is how weāll justify the contract extension.
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