Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley says that high flyer Jamie Elliot could be missing for as long as three months as he continues to battle a back complaint.
โHe had a good session today and his progress is good,โ Buckley said.
โItโs really hard to put a number on it.
โWe still think that heโs going to need another week or two of running, probably two or three weeks of conditioning on top of that.
โSo we think, long-term, weโd have six to eight, but it could be four to 12.
โConservatively, we wonโt see him in the next month. Heโs got a lot of work to do to get back up to speed."
Meanwhile, Buckley refused to accept that former Brownlow Medalist Dane Swan may have played his final game of AFL football after breaking his leg in Round 1.
โWhen he gets it fixed tomorrow we will know a bit more about the recovery time looks like,โ he said.
โAnd when the dust settles, Iโll have a sit down with Swanny and have a chat with him about how heโs feeling, where he sees himself going forward.
โTheyโre ongoing discussions with everyone around the place...Heโll have a big say given what heโs provided to the club for a long period of time and given the fact heโs his own man."
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