GWS have suffered an enormous blow forward of their important eight-point conflict with Adelaide on Saturday evening, set to play with out younger gun Tom Green.
In a ninth-versus-Tenth cracker, the winner of the Adelaide Oval battle may end the spherical inside the highest eight and can give their AFL finals hopes a large enhance, notably after the seventh-ranked Western Bulldogs misplaced to Sydney on Thursday evening.
But the Giants must do it with out influential inside midfielder Green, who coach Adam Kingsley mentioned did a “slight hamstring” at coaching on Thursday.
There’s no phrase on how lengthy Green can be sidelined, or who will exchange him within the aspect to face the Crows.
“It happened (on Thursday), he was just still a little bit uncomfortable with it, we decided to get a scan and it came back no good,” he mentioned.
“So it’s unfortunate for us but another guy comes in and he’ll get his opportunity through the midfield whoever that is when we decide, and we’ll go from there.”
The absence of Green, who ranks fourth within the league for disposals, will heap extra strain on the opposite Giants gun midfielders, together with Josh Kelly who copped a tough tag towards Hawthorn final outing and was held to only six touches.
It was simply the second time in Kelly’s final 162 video games he is had single-digit disposals.
“Josh and I sat down about it and spoke about the options that he does have if and when he gets tagged next, whether that’s this week or beyond,” Kingsley mentioned.
“So he’s armed with a few more tools now that will be able to hopefully help his influence on the game be a little greater than what it was against Hawthorn.
“They did a beautiful job on him, and we most likely as a group did not assist Josh sufficient, that is one thing we’ll take out of that sport.”
The conflict will even deliver two necessary milestones, Adelaide’s Rory Sloane celebrating his 250th match whereas GWS’ Lachie Whitfield can be enjoying his two hundredth.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
