\n Max King won’t return to full training until the end of January\n <\/p>\n
Max King during St Kilda’s official team photo day at RSEA Park on January 28, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
MAX KING’S horror injury run has continued, with the St Kilda forward undergoing another round of knee surgery.<\/p>\n
King has not played at AFL level since round 16, 2024 and missed the entirety of last season due to a right knee issue.<\/p>\n
The Saints confirmed on Wednesday that King has undergone another “minor procedure” on his knee, although he is expected to be back in full training in January.<\/p>\n
King underwent surgery in mid-2025 to repair damage to the medial aspect of his right knee, which had been an issue since February.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Saints re-signed King to a six-year deal in 2024, taking him to 2032.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Mason Wood has also been sidelined after sustaining a calf injury this week, while Alex Dodson has suffered a minor hamstring strain.<\/p>\n
Mason Wood during a St Kilda training session at RSEA Park on August 13, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
Recruit Tom De Koning (calf) is expected to resume full training after the Christmas break after a delayed start to his time at Moorabbin, while fellow new addition Jack Silvagni is dealing with a groin injury, but the Saints insist he is making “positive progress” in his recovery.<\/p>\n
Dan Butler, Ryan Byrnes, Mitch Owens, Dougal Howard and Paddy Dow are all back to full training after their 2025 seasons were cut short due to injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max King won’t return to full training until the end of January Max King during St Kilda’s official…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-353510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353510","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=353510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}