Promising ahead Mykelti Lefau shall be added to Richmond’s horror damage record after badly hurting his knee towards Geelong.
Lefau, who was energetic with two targets within the Tigers’ 30-point defeat, landed awkwardly after flying for a mark within the final quarter.
The 25-year-old rugby league convert has been a shining mild in a tough season for Richmond.
But Lefau, who beforehand ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament again in 2022, will endure scans to find out the harm this week.
“He’s injured, and to the extent we don’t know yet, but it doesn’t look good,” Tigers coach Adem Yze mentioned.
“It does look like he might have hurt his knee, but we’ll obviously go get the scans on Monday.
“It’ll be shattering whether it is, as a result of he is in good type, and he is an actual expertise.
“If it is we’ll wrap our arms around him like we have with the other boys that have injured themselves, but hoping that it might not be the case.”
Dual premiership utility Marlion Pickett additionally suffered a calf damage and was subbed out of the match within the final quarter.
When leaving the sphere, Pickett raised his center finger at a piece of the group.
Yze was unaware of the incident however would converse with Pickett after viewing the footage.
“If he has, that’d be disappointing. I’ll have a chat for sure. Can’t be doing that,” he mentioned.
In his rookie season after following triple premiership coach Damien Hardwick at Richmond, Yze has endured a torturous run with accidents to his gamers.
Lefau and Pickett be part of the likes of Tom Lynch (hamstring), Tim Taranto (wrist), Jacob Hopper (hamstring), Jack Ross (foot), Maurice Rioli Jnr (ankle) and Dylan Grimes on the sidelines.
Tylar Young, Sam Naismith, Josh Gibcus and Judson Clarke have all been dominated out of the season with critical knee accidents.
“We’ve still got some young players that are getting some opportunities while we’re going through this so we’re always going to look at the silver lining,” Yze mentioned.
Superstar Dustin Martin seems set to be rested for Richmond’s journey to the Adelaide Oval on Thursday night time to face the Crows.
Martin is just one recreation off changing into the seventh Richmond participant to achieve 300 video games.
The triple Norm Smith medallist will nearly definitely carry up the milestone the next week on the MCG towards Hawthorn as an alternative.
“It won’t be around that (the milestone) it will be because we’re going into a five-day break,” Yze mentioned.
“We’ll probably have three or four players in that category based on their age and workload that might be high risk to play Adelaide no matter what.
“We’re about efficiency.
“He’ll want to play, but if it means it’s too high a risk based on the five-day break and the travel; we’ll make that decision later in the week.”
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