Collingwood star Nick Daicos has pushed himself in a solo coaching session on Wednesday as he ramped up his bid to make an AFL finals return from a knee harm.
The younger gun reappeared for the primary time since his cameo in entrance of the Magpies trustworthy on Sunday, coaching by himself at Olympic Park on Wednesday morning.
The All-Australian midfielder upped the ante as he tried to show he had recovered from the hairline fracture in his knee, finishing a sequence of conditioning drills together with lunges holding a picket stick.
He once more accomplished run-throughs at a excessive velocity with some slight change of course work.
Daicos’ freedom of motion put to mattress any concern he had pulled up poorly after the Sunday session given his absence from the Magpies’ essential coaching run on Tuesday.
He spent a major period of time doing expertise work with two Collingwood staffers earlier than the Magpies’ captain’s run.
The precise timeline for the 20-year-old’s return is unclear, however the Magpies anticipate him to be accessible a minimum of by preliminary finals week.
Coach Craig McRae wouldn’t say on Tuesday whether or not Daicos could be accessible ought to the Pies lose to Melbourne and be pressured right into a semi-final subsequent week.
“We’re hoping we’re not going to have to worry about that,” he stated.
“We’ll take what we can control right now.”
Originally revealed as Collingwood star Nick Daicos does additional classes to get finals prepared
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
