{"id":457838,"date":"2026-02-04T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457838\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:50:08","slug":"blues-pair-to-miss-start-of-season-in-double-injury-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457838\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues pair to miss start of season in double injury blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Blues have been dealt a double injury blow ahead of the start of the season\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Nick Haynes during the match between Port Adelaide and Carlton at Adelaide Oval in round 16, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>CARLTON defender Nick Haynes and midfielder Matt Cottrell will miss the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Haynes (ankle) and Cottrell (knee) had arthroscopes on Wednesday after dealing with soreness in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues said the move &#8220;allows them to recover fully, with their availability to play to be assessed following the club&#8217;s bye in round two&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It means Haynes and Cottrell will miss the season-opener against Sydney, and the round one meeting with Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>In his first season at Carlton, Haynes, 33, played 23 games in 2025, while Cottrell was limited to just six games last year.<\/p>\n<p>Carlton is aiming to bounce back from a disappointing season as it finished 11th with a 9-14 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blues have been dealt a double injury blow ahead of the start of the season Nick Haynes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-457838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457838","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=457838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}