{"id":623035,"date":"2026-04-22T07:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623035\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:08:13","slug":"chris-scott-responds-to-tyson-stengle-reports-in-the-afl-medical-model-gryan-miers-acl-injury-press-conference-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623035\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Scott responds to Tyson Stengle reports, in the AFL medical model, Gryan Miers ACL injury, press conference, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geelong head coach Chris Scott has stated he is reluctant to speculate on the indefinite absence of small forward Tyson Stengle, after reports emerged the star has \u201ccut off all ties\u201d<\/a> with a number of people within his inner circle.<\/p>\n

Stengle, an All-Australian, hasn\u2019t played an AFL game so far in 2026 after back-to-back full seasons for the Cats as the club manages him through an \u2018individualised program\u2019, as per their weekly injury report.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to media on Wednesday morning at Kardinia Park, Scott remained cagey over the 27-year-old\u2019s personal circumstances that continue to prevent him playing professional football. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not my role to be across those things. I\u2019d hate to sound defensive of it, but what I think I\u2019ve learned over the years is to acknowledge the different roles that people have in these sorts of situations,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have a problem with the media speculating, but they are speculating with less information than I have \u2014 and I have less information than other people at the club have, who probably have less information than the AFL have.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s reasonable to say in this situation, more so than say Gryan (Miers\u2019) situation, you\u2019re just asking the wrong person. One, if I had good information, I probably wouldn\u2019t tell you anyway because I\u2019d consider it to be private. But, this is one where I genuinely don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seven\u2019s Tom Morris reported that the AFL \u201cwas essentially not allowing Stengle to play football \u2026 because of the medical model they have\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the way the AFL want it (a vague return timeline). So, we need to submit to their processes,\u201d Scott continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not my position to settle the nerves of Geelong fans … if people want more information, they probably should direct their questions to the AFL.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve loved what I\u2019ve seen from him at training. When we see him out on the training track, we feel like: \u2018We\u2019d like to get this guy into our team as soon as practical\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked how his training consistency had been over the past few weeks, Scott responded: \u201cI\u2019m tempted to say that\u2019s none of your business … we don\u2019t walk you through the training programs of our players. Everyone\u2019s on an individual program, and he\u2019s no different.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday evening, Geelong released their weekly injury report that revealed they are continuing to explore the best course of action to manage a knee injury to Gryan Miers, after initial fears the damaging half-forward had torn his ACL.<\/a><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s understood Miers has avoided an ACL tear, with the club waiting in the short-term to see if it\u2019s possible to have him return to the fold without needing surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m taking the approach that I think everyone else should take, and that is to just be patient and wait until the experts have made their assessment \u2014 which they haven\u2019t done yet,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand that there\u2019s a little bit of information out there, and I\u2019m not going to add to that speculation. Expect to say, that there\u2019s room for an open mind on this one. As always with injury … I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the worst process for the coach to be the last to know on these things. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not available this week, so he\u2019s not dominating my thinking. I\u2019ll be brought in at the right time … once there\u2019s some decision to be made, then I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll be brought across it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Geelong travel to Adelaide this weekend to play Port Adelaide on the Saturday night of Anzac Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong head coach Chris Scott has stated he is reluctant to speculate on the indefinite absence of small…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,85102,64,63,689,55,639,36891,12923,301884,21773,301887,301888,86692,88842,3512,301886,677,6082,10036,1124,85,1144,301885,82592,301883],"class_list":{"0":"post-623035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-anzac-day","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","13":"tag-australian-football-league","14":"tag-australianfootballleague","15":"tag-cats-coach","16":"tag-chris-scott","17":"tag-cryptic-injury","18":"tag-dominant-victory","19":"tag-fires-back","20":"tag-indefinite-absence","21":"tag-injury-report","22":"tag-inner-circle","23":"tag-knee-injury","24":"tag-medical-model","25":"tag-oceania","26":"tag-port-adelaide","27":"tag-professional-football","28":"tag-south-australia","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-tom-morris","31":"tag-training-consistency","32":"tag-tyson-stengle","33":"tag-vague-return-timeline"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623035","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=623035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}