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Injury List Oscar McDonald | Concussion – Available “Oscar has no issues after that concussion. He trained today and will be available for selection this week.” Neville Jetta | Knee – Test “Nev trained the day before the game and trained really well, but just pulled up a little bit sore and was a little bit swollen in the knee. He made a really good team decision – he didn’t want to let the team down. He was touch and go but obviously missed, so we’ll be hopeful for him this week.” Jay Lockhart | Back – Test “Jay just got a back spasm at training the day before the game coming off the flight, so again, he was a lot better the morning of the game, but we wanted to take a fit 100 percent team in, so Jay was left out. But he’s turned around really quickly over the weekend so he should be available.” Braydon Preuss | Shoulder – Test “He came back and had a scan on the shoulder which showed there wasn’t too much structural damage. We’ll review him today and monitor him during the week, but we hope he’ll be able to get out there on the weekend.” Jordan Lewis | Hamstring – Test “He did a big session on Friday back in Melbourne with the rehab group. He’ll have a normal week this week and look to make himself available.” Kade Kolodjashnij | Concussion – TBA “We will continue to monitor Kade after his head knock against Essendon. He has some lingering concussion symptoms and these will need to clear before we have more clear timeframes on his return.” Steven May | Groin – 2-4 weeks “Steven had his first couple of running sessions last week, so we’ll look to keep increasing his volume this week.” Aaron vandenBerg | Foot – 4-6 weeks “Vanders had a run outside last week. He pulled up a little bit sore, so we’ll review him today, but hopefully we can keep progressing his rehab this week.” Joel Smith | Groin – 4-6 weeks “Joel’s actually due to run today. He’s been gradually getting better and better, so we’ll look to start his re-loading program today.” Jake Lever | Knee – 6 weeks “Jake’s due to do essentially his first full session with the group on Wednesday. He’s almost ticked off all of his rehab – still needs to do a bit of contact work – but essentially he’s going to need a month of full training with the group before he plays, and that’ll start soon.” Mitch Hannan | Knee – 6 weeks “Mitch has been slowly increasing his speed and agility in rehab and is doing a lot of ball work. He’ll probably do the session the day before the game on Friday with the main group, so that’s a really big step forward for Mitch. Again, he’s going to need a decent block of training before he plays, but he’s certainly heading in the right direction.” Jay Kennedy Harris | Knee – 8-10 weeks “Jay had his first run outside on Friday and felt really good. That was really pleasing as we weren’t really sure how he’d go, but importantly he’s pulled up well, so we’ll start to ramp his volume up this week.” Guy Walker | Shoulder – Indefinite Aaron Nietschke | Knee – Season

Add Jetta and Lockhart to the growing list. Mature-age forward Jay Lockhart has a back issue, while gun backman Neville Jetta is also battling some soreness.

Yep. Hasn't really changed the entire time he has been out. 3 to 4 weeks ago it was 3 weeks de-load and 3 week re-load.

From the HUN artcile ... ? | https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/melbourne/simon-goodwin-opens-up-on-melbournes-shocking-2018-preliminary-final-and-his-eye-on-the-future/news-story/a747f87037c2f001c67464d513756f06 Goodwin has not watched the game. and he did not read any critique of it. “The game was pretty clear in my head,’’ he said. “I’ve thought about it. Like anyone, to grow and learn you have to reflect so I’ve certainly reflected on everything around our program, the lead-in to the finals, the first final, the second final, what we taught, how we educated our program, our training, how we travelled, all those things you reflect on. “But it’s too hard an industry to keep looking back and being miserable about what’s behind you so you have to keep going forward.’’ Is the game far removed from your thinking in the middle of February. “Yeah, a long way.” Are you annoyed we’re going back there? “No, it’s your job and it still sits in a lot of people’s minds. It’s there, it’s great exposure, but we need to look forward.’’ So, onwards and upwards.

Waiting on scan results for length of time on the sidelines.

From @WERRIDEE re: Casey's most recent practice match in 2019. From @Drunkn167 re: Casey's first practice match in 2019

? | https://www.sen.com.au/news/2019/03/30/goodwin-provides-injury-update-on-may-following-80-point-loss/

We now have a worse percentage.

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? | https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/moneyball-melbourne-will-be-busy-again-during-the-trade-period/news-story/dbb278c5841e8f2d4e18cec0e836871e

? | https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/melbourne/melbourne-still-paying-the-price-for-preliminary-final-run/news-story/7799d50db1b1734778b9eda48a3e9c1b

Or maybe not.

He's back.

I noticed the slight limp pre-game too. He should not have been picked and the amount of game time actually played confirms that.

? | https://www.sen.com.au/news/2019/03/22/melbourne-footy-manager-provides-lever-update/ “He’s really tracking along well at the moment so he’s somewhere in between (returning in) Round 7 or 8 to Round 10-12 so it’s in that range, depending on how it goes from here on.”