{"id":408294,"date":"2026-01-12T12:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408294\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:46:11","slug":"geelong-cats-grant-tyson-stengle-extended-leave-knee-injuries-to-north-melbourne-kangaroos-jackson-archer-and-carlton-blues-jesse-motlop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408294\/","title":{"rendered":"Geelong Cats grant Tyson Stengle extended leave. Knee injuries to North Melbourne Kangaroos\u2019 Jackson Archer and Carlton Blues\u2019 Jesse Motlop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motlop, who signed a two-year deal to remain with Carlton, suffered the injury at training on Monday. Archer, who has had an injury-riddled career so far, received the results of scans after going down with a right knee injury at training on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Blues football boss Chris Davies said Motlop was a resilient character who would now concentrate on his rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

\"Jesse<\/p>\n

Jesse Motlop celebrates kicking a goal for the Blues.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cJesse has put in plenty of hard work in the pre-season, so we are really feeling for him at this time,\u201d Davies said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there is understandable disappointment right now, Jesse is the ultimate professional, who possesses great resilience, which will help as he moves through the recovery process.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Blues have Elijah Hollands and Will White training with the club in the hope of gaining a spot on the list via the pre-season supplemental process.<\/p>\n

Archer, the son of North Melbourne great Glenn, played just three matches last season due to suspension and injury.<\/p>\n

Adelaide youngster Tom Cochrane also suffered a \u201csignificant\u201d hamstring injury on Monday which will force him to miss the start of the season.<\/p>\n

Keep up to date with the best AFL coverage in the country. Sign up for the Real Footy newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motlop, who signed a two-year deal to remain with Carlton, suffered the injury at training on Monday. Archer,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-408294","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\/408294","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=408294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}