News From The Reserves

- In the VFL, Box Hill beat Coburg Tigers by 5 points with Hawks bigman Robbie Campbell impressing amongst the best whilst also kicking a snag. Hawker Travis Tuck was in the best too and also kicked a goal.For the Tigers, Joel Bowden was their best afield, kicking 2 goals as well, while Troy Simmonds booted 3 goals and Mark Coughlan, Shane Tuck and Graham Polak were all named in the best players.Northern Bullants beat Collingwood by 8 points, with Carlton ruckman Robbie Warnock back and doing pretty well with 18 hitouts. Also for the Blues brigade, Adam Bentick got 31 touches and 3 goals, Cam Cloke booted 2 snags and Jeff Garlett produced some...

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Worsfold Hints Cox's Year Over

West Coast coach John Worsfold looks to have conceded the seasons of Dean Cox and Daniel Kerr are already over due to injuries."We want to get them up ready to play with no soreness," Worsfold said on Tuesday."That might take four weeks, that might take eight weeks."Even though we are not playing in eight weeks time we have to get them to a point to say they are working hard enough to be ready to play and they are not getting any soreness, so we know we've fixed the problem."When the season finishes we can't stop them from doing anything and think we've fixed the problem. We need to make sure we have."So that means getting them up to a point...

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Around The Grounds

Popular St Kilda defender Sam Gilbert could miss another match with back soreness. Gilbert missed Saints training on Tuesday and worryingly St Kilda coach Ross Lyon said this, "We're in a position to be more conservative as opposed to aggresive." Gilbert may not be risked.Also from St Kilda there was an injury scare for Leigh Montagna but he should play, with Lyon saying, "Montagna’s pretty keen to keep his form going. We’ll see how the week unfolds.”Port Adelaide's $405k midfielder Dom Cassisi will play this weekend despite a depression in his frontal sinus. Port confirmed Cassisi's injury is minor but he'll wear a helmet this weekend.Essendon look likely to regain Alwyn Davey and Mark McVeigh for this weekend's clash with Brisbane but Matty Lloyd (heel) and Jason Winderlich (back) will...

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Chappy Gone For Two?

Geelong have revealed gun forward Paul Chapman will miss next week, and perhaps a game more, with a hamstring injury.The popular Cats forward booted six goals in the weekend's win over Adelaide but Geelong coach Mark Thompson revealed he sustained the injury during that game."He played with it for a time," Thompson said at Skilled Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. "He did it during the game – I think it was late in the first quarter."He got the hamstring twinge. It was his left – not the one he kicked all the goals with."He played with it, and he wants to play this week, but we're not going to let hi...

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