{"id":462162,"date":"2026-02-06T11:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/462162\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:21:24","slug":"crows-backman-breaks-leg-out-for-at-least-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/462162\/","title":{"rendered":"Crows backman breaks leg, out for at least three months"},"content":{"rendered":"

Influential Adelaide defender Mark Keane will be sidelined at least three months after breaking a leg in a training mishap.<\/p>\n

The Irish-born backman will have surgery on his lower right leg after being stretchered off the field at Adelaide’s West Lakes headquarters on Friday.<\/p>\n

“As far as I’m aware to this point, it’s around three or four months (out),” Crows coach Matthew Nicks told Adelaide radio station 5AA.<\/p>\n

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Keane backed into a marking contest and collided with recruit Finbar Maley.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old immediately clutched at his lower right leg before removing his sock and boot and being helped by medicos on to a motorised stretcher.<\/p>\n

Keane last season made the AFL’s All Australian squad but missed selection in the ceremonial team.<\/p>\n

The injury is another blow to the Crows, who have already lost young gun Daniel Curtin for a lengthy period.<\/p>\n

Curtin dislocated a knee during a wrestling drill in late January.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old has undergone surgery and will be sidelined until at least round seven of the premiership season.<\/p>\n

Adelaide, who were last year’s minor premiers but fell from the finals with consecutive defeats, open their premiership season on March 14 against Collingwood at the MCG.<\/p>\n

Luckless North Melbourne midfielder George Wardlaw was sent for scans after he hurt a hamstring during Friday’s match simulation.<\/p>\n

Wardlaw was restricted to 13 games last season, with a hamstring injury sidelining him until round seven.<\/p>\n

North will start their season on March 15 against Port Adelaide at Marvel Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Influential Adelaide defender Mark Keane will be sidelined at least three months after breaking a leg in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-462162","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\/462162","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=462162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}