Scott Pendlebury, who injured his eye late the side’s Round 6 match against Essendon, had a follow up with an eye specialist and received some stitches to assist with his recovery. Pendlebury has responded well to the surgery. The 35-year-old is expected to return to full contact training late in the week ahead of Sunday's game. Pendlebury will be assessed with the expectation to play this weekend.
Nathan Murphy suffered an impact to the face during Sunday night’s game against Adelaide. Avoided serious injury and was left with a bruise. Murphy was cleared of concussion symptoms at the time of the incident. The 23-year-old has been symptom free since the impact. Similar to Pendlebury, Murphy will be assessed later in the week to determine whether he will play against the Swans.
Nathan Kreuger was subbed off in the first half against the Crows on the weekend. Kreuger sustained a knock to the knee, then further received a direct knock to the ribs. Kreuger was removed from the game as a precaution and sent to hospital for scans which cleared him of any damage. Kreuger will be assessed later in the week.
In good news, Mason Cox has progressed back to his base line measures, impressively returning back to where he was five weeks ago. Mason requires one more consultation with the specialist to clear him for contact training which will enable him to be available for selection this week.
Young defender Jakob Ryan's neck/shoulder injury is progressing well. Ryan who was able to train in Adelaide, worked through a training session with little to no pain. He will be limited in training early in the week, with the aim to have him back to full contact training by the end of the week and available for selection.
Pleasingly, Aiden Begg (back) and Arlo Draper (concussion) have returned to full training and are ready to go for this weekend's games.
Joe Richards is progressing well with his running program as he works on his fitness from his hamstring injury.
Ruckman Darcy Cameron is tracking well as he recovers from an MCL injury. Cameron has been out of a knee brace for a week now, and has settled nicely into his running program.
Patrick Lipinski (shoulder), Dan McStay (finger) and Jeremy Howe (arm) are all progressing well in their running programs with no major updates at the moment.
Similarly, Charlie Dean is working on an indoor program before he returns to running.
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