\n A key Adelaide forward will remain on the sidelines due to injury, but two teammates will be available for selection after exiting concussion protocols\n <\/p>\n
Darcy Fogarty warms up ahead of the round three match between Adelaide and Geelong at GMHBA Stadium, on March 26, 2026. Picture: Getty Images\/AFL Photos<\/p>\n
INJURED Adelaide forward Darcy Fogarty remains sidelined, but coach Matthew Nicks is forecasting tough selection calls with two regulars again available.<\/p>\n
Fogarty will miss a third consecutive game because of an injury to a disc in his back when the Crows host St Kilda on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Nicks said the forward still had “a little way to go” to recover from his latest issue.<\/p>\n
“It’s unfortunate … it has been a tough grind for him,” Nicks told reporters.<\/p>\n
“He’s improving, but slowly. And we won’t take any risk around that.”<\/p>\n
Fullback Jordon Butts and utility Luke Pedlar have both exited concussion protocols and will be available for selection.<\/p>\n
“It’s going to make it (selection) an interesting one because the guys who have come in have done a good job,” Nicks said.<\/p>\n
“There’s a bigger picture to all of it; there’s a lot more than just the individual around decisions. It’s going to be a tough one.”<\/p>\n
Midfielder Jake Soligo remained in doubt after hurting an ankle in Adelaide’s Gather Round win over Carlton last Thursday night.<\/p>\n
“He’s going to train, he’s going to test it out,” Nicks said.<\/p>\n
Jake Soligo celebrates a goal during the R5 match between Adelaide and Carlton at Adelaide Oval on April 9, 2026. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
“He has done everything he possibly can, it’s just whether he’s able to get out there and hop on it and change direction and move sideways, so we’ll have a look at that.”<\/p>\n
Young Dan Curtin took part in the full session without restrictions for the first time since dislocating a knee in late January.<\/p>\n
“We’re not going to rush it from here and make a mistake,” Nicks said of Curtin, runner-up in the Telstra AFL Rising Star award last year.<\/p>\n
“He has been out of the game long enough to say: ‘Hey, let’s get a game under your belt at a slightly different speed to maybe what’s required at AFL’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A key Adelaide forward will remain on the sidelines due to injury, but two teammates will be available…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-608968","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\/608968","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=608968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}