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CibbuanoRocca to miss eight weeks
June 23rd 2008 05:14
COLLINGWOOD forward Anthony Rocca will miss the next eight weeks with an ankle injury.
After missing several weeks with soreness, Rocca was a late inclusion for the Magpies' 10-point loss to the Western Bulldogs a Telstra Dome on Sunday night but he broke down in the third quarter
Collingwood football manager Geoff Walsh said Rocca would have surgery on Tuesday to have a pin inserted in his troublesome right ankle.
Walsh revealed a new crack had been found in the ankle he had surgery on late last year and said that the injury wasn't career threatening.
"The surgeon's advised this morning that given the time-frame he'll be out, he'll come good," Walsh said.
"It'll heal perfectly. It's not career-threatening."
Meanwhile, promising young Collingwood forward Ben Reid is also expected to be sidelined for the next eight weeks after breaking a bone in his foot against the Bulldogs.
After missing several weeks with soreness, Rocca was a late inclusion for the Magpies' 10-point loss to the Western Bulldogs a Telstra Dome on Sunday night but he broke down in the third quarter
Collingwood football manager Geoff Walsh said Rocca would have surgery on Tuesday to have a pin inserted in his troublesome right ankle.
Walsh revealed a new crack had been found in the ankle he had surgery on late last year and said that the injury wasn't career threatening.
"The surgeon's advised this morning that given the time-frame he'll be out, he'll come good," Walsh said.
"It'll heal perfectly. It's not career-threatening."
Meanwhile, promising young Collingwood forward Ben Reid is also expected to be sidelined for the next eight weeks after breaking a bone in his foot against the Bulldogs.
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