More pain for Treloar
COLLINGWOOD star Adam Treloar’s recovery from a third soft-tissue tear this season will be challenged by the league’s second compressed fixture.
In better news, Will Hoskin-Elliott was cleared of structural damage, but will miss at least one game with bone bruising to his knee.
Treloar is likely to miss a month.
Pies footy boss Geoff Walsh said on Friday the injury was a recurrence of his March hamstring strain.
He also missed six weeks with a calf injury.
“Because it is around the same site, we will treat it conservatively,” Walsh said.
“It could be up to a month until we see Adam.”
Coach Nathan Buckley joked Treloar might miss 12 games given the league’s compressed schedule.
As revealed by the News Corp yesterday, the AFL wants to compress rounds 14 to 16 before conventional rounds 17-18.
Treloar will have to find a way to ease back into football in this compressed schedule to be fit for finals.
Collingwood will have to assess Isaac Quaynor, who had his shin split open in a horror cut that may take weeks to fully heal given the risk of infection and reinjury.
But after a night in a Brisbane hospital Quaynor was walking without the aid of crutches on Friday.
Walsh said he might miss only one to two games.
Scott Pendlebury will start kicking again next week after recovery from a quad injury, while Levi Greenwood (knee) and Tom Langdon (knee) came through a scrimmage on Thursday morning.
Scans cleared HoskinElliott of structural damage and the Pies hope he might miss only the game against Adelaide on Tuesday.