Join High Performance Consultant, Simon Anning for this week's injury update.

The main injury to come from this weekend was to the milestone man, Steele Sidebottom. Steele was involved in an awkward collision during the early moments of his 300th game. Scans have shown he has unfortunately sustained a medial ligament sprain to his right knee. The expected return timeline for Sidebottom will be 6-8 weeks.

Young forward Reef McInnes hyperextended his knee during our VFL game on Sunday. In positive news for Reef, scans have shown no serious damage and he will work into training this week and be tested before selection for the upcoming round. 

Billy Frampton goes from strength to strength in his rehabilitation program on his way back from an adductor injury. Provided Billy can get through training this week, we expect him to be available this weekend. 

In exciting news, Patrick Lipinski and Dan McStay look set to return for our King's Birthday clash in Round 13. Lipinski will partake in full contact training over the next fortnight in a bid to be available for AFL selection. Meanwhile, McStay is also progressing along nicely with his finger injury. He'll start ball handling this week, in addition to the general speed and strength conditioning he's been working on during his rehabilitation process. 

Small forward Joe Richards has increased the intensity of his training drills over the last week as he returns from a hamstring injury. He's joined into some modified drills and how he tolerates his work over the next week will determine wether or not he'll be available for Round 13 or after our bye. 

Jeremy Howe has made some really promising progress as he continues to build his workloads. He's now involved in more football specific drills with the main group and continues to build his football specific training. At this stage we expect Jeremy to be available sometime shortly after the bye. 

Charlie Dean is continuing to build his strength work as we look to build him up to a point where he runs next week.