Collingwood are in damage control amid a disastrous injury crisis, with Scott Pendlebury a surprise addition to their growing AFL injury list.
7NEWS can reveal the former Magpies skipper had a scan on Monday for a sore bicep/elbow area after an unseen incident against Fremantle on Friday night.
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Pendlebury said the injury had already improved since the weekend’s game.
“I feel much better than I did Friday night after it happened, which gives me confidence that it’s tracking in the right direction,” he told 7NEWS.
“(I’m) staying away from it this early in the week.
“I don’t really need to push it today, we have still got four days before we play, so I’ll get some running in and hopefully it (the scan) comes back all clear, which I’m confident it will.”
If Pendlebury misses this week’s crucial clash with the Western Bulldogs, he will join Jordan De Goey, Mason Cox, Joe Richards, Jamie Elliott, Will Hoskin-Elliott, Reef McInnes, Brody Mihocek and Tom Mitchell on the sidelines, plus Dan McStay, who suffered an ACL injury last year.
De Goey missed last Friday’s draw with the Dockers after “experiencing groin awareness” against Adelaide the previous week, according to the club.
This has now become “an acute rectus abdominal tendon tear”, which is set to sideline him for another month.
It has raised questions over the explosive star’s initial rehab program, having missed the two games prior to the Round 10 clash with the Crows.
Cox was subbed out of the weekend’s game with both concussion and a knee injury, sustained in the same incident.
The head knock would have kept him out for at least 12 days anyway, but scans have revealed a grade two MCL injury in his knee, which bent back underneath his body in a sickening incident.
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The 33-year-old big man will be unavailable for the next six weeks, leaving the burden of the ruck duties almost entirely to Darcy Cameron.
Mature age recruit Richards won’t return before Round 16 after fracturing his foot during his 22-disposal, one-goal game against the Dockers.
And if it couldn’t get any worse, Mihocek suffered a hamstring injury in the final minute of Friday’s game, in the same spot as his previous hamstring injury.
It will mean the forward-50 workhorse will miss between two and four weeks.
