Jordan De Goey faces yet another injury setback
Collingwood star Jordan De Goey‘s injury struggles continued over the weekend after failing a fitness test 24 hours before the match against Richmond. He was withdrawn from the side, with his replacement, first-year forward Joe Richards, then withdrawing through illness in a situation Magpies coach Craig McRae admitted was “not ideal”.
The Magpies still went on to post a comfortable win over the last-placed Tigers, keeping their premiership defence alive, albeit just. But ahead of this weekend’s crucial clash against Carlton, flag hero De Goey’s fitness is once again under a cloud.
The 28-year-old has been limited to 12 appearances this season and has struggled to have his usual explosive impact when available. And McRae isn’t confident that he will be available against local rivals the Blues. “It’s difficult to know what’s going on there for me … other than he looked really sore this week,” McRae said.
“He’s been looking really sore early in the week and we’re de-loading him and running straight lines and getting him to the line. But this week he looked really sore, so we’ll work through that.”
“Each week seems to start in the same place and maybe not playing this week might help us start in a different place. But again, we’ll wait and see on that.”
De Goey recently opened up about his ongoing injury frustrations, with the explosive midfielder admitting that his groin complaint has been a “debilitating” week-by-week proposition that has greatly impacted his form. “Come weekend you get all the adrenaline and stuff like that so that makes it easier (to get through a game but it) is tough to get the continuity,” he told Channel 7’s Talking Footy earlier this month.
“It’s just groin soreness or groin awareness (and) it’s just debilitating in terms of power. Over time it does get better. It’s just a process and you have to kind of push through this first phase.”
