{"id":581451,"date":"2026-04-02T21:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581451\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:13:28","slug":"nick-daicos-calf-injury-ruled-out-for-collingwood-vs-brisbane-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581451\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Daicos calf injury, ruled out for Collingwood vs Brisbane match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collingwood<\/a> superstar Nick Daicos<\/a> was a shock late out for the club’s clash with Brisbane<\/a> on Easter Thursday.<\/p>\n

The star midfielder arrived at the Gabba with his calf heavily strapped, and he struggled to move freely as he ran around the ground.<\/p>\n

The Pies made the call to scratch him at the last possible second, bringing in young on-baller Ed Allan. <\/p>\n

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Nick Daicos’ strapped calf.\u00a0Fox Footy<\/p>\n

It’s a massive loss for the Pies, who are already missing veteran pair Scott Pendlebury and Darcy Moore.<\/p>\n

Daicos is now sitting up in a corporate box to watch the match unfold.<\/p>\n

SEN’s Gerard Whateley meanwhile said “no Pendlebury, no Moore, and now no Daicos, it’s a formidable task (for Collingwood)”.<\/p>\n

“It’s a huge out \u2013 all eyes were on Nick Daicos in the warm up,” Fox Footy’s Ben Dixon said.<\/p>\n

“Was really struggling to run, didn’t look well at all.<\/p>\n

“It’s a bit strange they’d bring him up here on a Thursday night. Still no improvement in his ability to run.”<\/p>\n

Collingwood has said the injury is a corked calf. <\/p>\n

The Lions are also without key players, with Hugh McCluggage, Harris Andrews and Darcy Gardiner among those on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

Former Adelaide star Josh Jenkins put the onus on Jordan De Goey to step up and play through the midfield in Daicos’ absence.<\/p>\n

The Collingwood outfit without Daicos struggled significantly in the first quarter, giving up six goals and trailing 40-19 at the first break and 62-33 at half time.<\/p>\n

Brisbane midfielders Will Ashcroft, Zac Bailey and Lachie Neale all found plenty of the footy, while no Magpie has more than six disposals at the first break.<\/p>\n

And that continued into the second half, with Brisbane running away comfortable winners in the end. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood superstar Nick Daicos was a shock late out for the club’s clash with Brisbane on Easter Thursday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-581451","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\/581451","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=581451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}