\n After a horror 2025 Reef McInnes has suffered another serious knee injury that will end his season\n <\/p>\n
Reef McInnes during a Collingwood training session at Olympic Park Oval, March 5, 2025. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n
COLLINGWOOD has been hit by bad news on the eve of its Anzac Day clash with young defender Reef McInnes sustaining an ACL injury in Friday’s VFL game against Essendon.<\/p>\n
McInnes left the field in the first quarter, with scans late this afternoon confirming the injury to his left knee.<\/p>\n
McInnes’ 2025 season was devastated when he injured his right knee, also an ACL, after taking big steps towards securing a regular senior spot.<\/p>\n
Magpies’ general manager of football Charlie Gardiner said the club would support the 23-year-old throughout his recovery.<\/p>\n
“Reef\u2019s injury is incredibly disappointing news, particularly given the commitment and hard work he has put in over the past 12 months to return from his right ACL,” Gardiner said.<\/p>\n
“He’s an outstanding character and has shown enormous resilience and positivity to get back to playing. While this is undoubtedly a difficult setback, our entire program will be behind Reef every step of the way during his recovery.”<\/p>\n
Collingwood took McInnes with pick no.23 in the 2020 draft.<\/p>\n
He has played 23 games since his debut in 2022, but has failed to play more than nine games in a season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a horror 2025 Reef McInnes has suffered another serious knee injury that will end his season Reef…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-627831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627831","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=627831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}