In a less turbulent off-season - one that didn't involve the abrupt exit of the team's captain and a protracted separation from its sporting director - Mike Grella's health might have been a bigger story.
In mid-January, Kristian Dyer reported for Metro (no relation) that the club was happy with Grella's recovery from off-season surgery to address a hernia that he'd been playing with for "the last couple of months of the season". He then picked up a knee injury in preseason, and was back in for surgery at the beginning of February.