{"id":407986,"date":"2026-01-12T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407986\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:13:08","slug":"pies-pair-facing-delayed-season-start-after-training-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407986\/","title":{"rendered":"Pies pair facing delayed season start after training injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Darcy Moore and Jeremy Howe are facing a stint on the sidelines after picking up injuries at training on Monday\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Jeremy Howe and Darcy Moore celebrate after the qualifying final between Collingwood and Melbourne at the MCG on September 7, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>COLLINGWOOD captain Darcy Moore and veteran Jeremy Howe have both suffered pre-season setbacks.<\/p>\n<p>The star defenders left the track early on Monday morning with calf injuries, before scans later in the day revealed minor strains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both Moore and Howe are only expected to be sidelined for a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Collingwood returned for pre-season training last Thursday morning following the Christmas break.<\/p>\n<p>Howe experienced an interrupted second half of 2025, making it back for the preliminary final loss to Brisbane after concussion and soft tissue injuries limited him from round 16.<\/p>\n<p>Craig McRae&#8217;s squad will play a practice match next month ahead of the AAMI Community Series game against North Melbourne on March 1.<\/p>\n<p>Collingwood starts its 2026 campaign against St Kilda in a new Opening Round fixture on Labour Day Eve at the MCG.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darcy Moore and Jeremy Howe are facing a stint on the sidelines after picking up injuries at training&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-407986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407986","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=407986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}