Injury List

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Brent Macaffer and Matthew Scharenberg’s seasons are over, but Dane Swan’s lives on.
That is the prognosis from Director of Football Rodney Eade, who told CollingwoodTV’s Blackmores Injury Update that Swan’s hamstring complaint, sustained during the win against Greater Western Sydney on the weekend, was back-related.
“Dane Swan is not as bad as first thought,” Eade said.
“He won’t play this week with a six-day break.
“It was just a bit of an overload in his hamstring. He was in a kicking motion and we think it’s more back-related – he’s had back issues this year – so we think that actually contributed to his tight hamstring.”
Like Swan, Clinton Young also damaged his hamstring in Saturday’s win.
He won’t play this week, but remains in the frame for a return should the Magpies qualify for the finals and progress deep into September.
“He normally plays 75 per cent game time because he’s such an explosive player,” Eade explained.
“He played 95 per cent the week before (against Brisbane) because we didn’t have any rotations.
“With the heavy ground, he was in that kicking motion and got pushed as he kicked a long kick, so we think all those factors contributed to him getting a strain.”
Sadly, Macaffer and Scharenberg’s seasons are over.
Both players ruptured their anterior cruciate ligaments (ACL) in the space of 24 hours on the weekend.
Fortunately, Macaffer’s injury was not a reoccurrence of the ACL tear he sustained in February 2012.
“There’s no other damage, which should enhance the recovery time. We’re hopeful that he can be nine months,” Eade said.
“He was very disappointed and down, as you’d imagine, but his spirits have lifted since and he’ll probably have an operation by maybe the end of the week or early next week."
Scharenberg’s injury is a devastating blow for both player and club, for he had worked diligently for several months to rehabilitate his foot injuries.
“He fought his way back from his feet but it was just a classic motion in an ACL injury that contributed to him going down in a corkscrew motion,” Eade said.
“He changed direction and his foot actually got stuck in the turf and didn’t release and he just did his ACL.
“People have said that he went off earlier with the injury but that’s not correct.
“He actually got a knock to the knee. It was fully tested so it was just an actual knock.
“He was completely stable. He did a lot of testing on it, went back on and played for another 15 minutes. Unfortunately it was just one of those things.
“People talk about our hamstrings but now we’ve had eight ACLs in the last three years so it’s probably an area, too, we need to look at to see whether it’s just bad luck or whether it’s anything that we can assist with within our program.”
Looking ahead to Friday's game, senior stars Jamie Elliott (hamstring) and Heritier Lumumba (corked thigh) will undergo fitness tests on their respective ailments later this week.

Injury List as of Tuesday 26 August 2014

Name	Injury	Status
Marty Clarke	Illness	Test
Jamie Elliott	Hamstring	Test
Heritier Lumumba	Corked thigh	Test
Caolan Mooney	Ankle	Test
Alan Toovey	Groin	1 week
Dane Swan	Hamstring	1-2 weeks
Travis Cloke	Ankle	3-4 weeks
Clinton Young	Hamstring	3-4 weeks
Taylor Adams	Finger	Season
Dayne Beams	Knee	Season
Nathan Brown	Shoulder	Season
Nathan Freeman	Hamstring	Season
Ben Hudson	Shoulder	Season
Brent Macaffer	Knee	Season
Jonathon Marsh	Hamstring	Season
Adam Oxley	Ankle	Season
Ben Reid	Hamstring	Season
Matthew Scharenberg	Knee	Season
Nick Maxwell	Ankle	Retired

Long-term injury list: Nathan Brown, Ben Hudson and Adam Oxley have been added to Collingwood's long-term injury list. Jack Frost, Corey Gault and Kyle Martin have been elevated from the rookie list as their replacements.