West Coast star Harley Reid’s season is over due to an ankle injury, while hamstrung Adelaide defender Max Michalanney is unlikely to return before the finals.<\/p>\n
Reid will be joined on the sidelines by fellow young gun Bo Allan after the pair both suffered similar low-grade syndesmosis injuries.<\/p>\n
Former No.1 draft pick Reid had to be helped off the field after damaging his right ankle in a tackle in the Eagles’ 49-point loss to Fremantle on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Allan suffered his season-ending injury after his foot was also caught in a tackle at training last Thursday.<\/p>\n
Former No.1 draft pick Reid had to be helped off the field after damaging his right ankle in a tackle in the Eagles’ 49-point loss to Fremantle on Saturday.\u00a0Janelle St Pierre\/AFL Photos\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Eagles will at least hope key defender Harry Edwards will be able to return for their match against a wounded Melbourne outfit after being ruled out late against the Dockers with hamstring soreness.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Michalanney — a crucial part of Adelaide’s backline — was substituted out during the third quarter of Saturday night’s thumping win over Port Adelaide and will miss four to six weeks.<\/p>\n
It means the Crows will continue their push for a top-two berth without the versatile defender, who will need to prove his fitness for the finals.<\/p>\n
“It’s unfortunate for Max given the season he’s been having,” Crows high performance boss Darren Burgess said.<\/p>\n
“Thankfully for us, we know he’s an extremely diligent worker and will do everything possible to return stronger.”<\/p>\n
Michalanney, 21, had played 64 of a possible 65 games since his debut in 2023.<\/p>\n
Adelaide will miss Michalanney against Hawthorn’s dynamic forward line on Friday night, while he will also be sidelined for games against West Coast, Collingwood and North Melbourne.<\/p>\n
The Crows (56 points), sit second behind Collingwood (60) and just ahead of Brisbane (54).<\/p>\n
Geelong, Hawthorn, GWS and Fremantle (all 52 points) are all jostling for top-four berths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Coast star Harley Reid’s season is over due to an ankle injury, while hamstrung Adelaide defender Max…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-27166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}