Both Essendon and Adelaide’s push for a finals berth took a giant hit on Monday with key gamers struggling important accidents together with a season ending ACL for a Crows defender.
Nick Murray will miss the remainder of the 2023 season and a giant chunk of 2024 after rupturing the ACL in his left knee in Sunday’s loss to Melbourne on the MCG.
The Crows slipped greater than a recreation outdoors the highest eight after the defeat made worse by a hamstring harm to electrical ahead Izak Rankine who will miss no less than 4 matches.
“While it’s disappointing to lose Izak, fortunately there was little to no tendon involvement so he will begin his rehab process and we anticipate that being 3-4 weeks before he returns to play,” Crows High Performance Manager Darren Burgess stated.
“Izak has had hamstring injuries in the past so he knows what is required with his rehabilitation and will work closely with our medical team to get back.”
The Bombers, who’ve fallen outdoors the highest eight after back-to-back losses, can be with out greatest and fairest successful defender Jordan Ridley doubtlessly for the remainder of the season with a quad harm he suffered in opposition to the Western Bulldogs.
“It‘s disappointing for Rids who has been one of our most consistent players this season,” Essendon efficiency supervisor Dan McPherson stated.
“We‘ll get a more accurate sense of his potential return-to-play timeline in the next week or so, but at this early stage we believe he is unlikely to play before the last round of the home-and-away season.”
Essendon has winnable video games to come back in opposition to Sydney, West Coast, North Melbourne and GWS, earlier than a last spherical showdown with premiership favourites Collingwood to make it to the finals.
The Bulldogs in the meantime will get stronger of their pursuit of a top-four end Norm Smith medallist Jason Johannisen set to return from a severe hamstring harm in opposition to GWS this Saturday.
Johannisen has missed the previous eight video games after struggling a high-grade hamstring pressure with tendon harm and has undergone a rehabilitation program contained in the Whitten Oval throughout the previous two months.
“Being a high-speed athlete, we have taken our time with him to make sure that the damage in his hamstring has fully recovered,” Head of Sports Medicine, Chris Bell stated.
“Jason has progressed well over the last month and has built some great continuity in his training.
“If he ticks his final boxes this week – and pulls up well from our main training – JJ will return to availability.”
Source: www.news.com.au
