GOLD COAST INJURY UPDATE
- Suns coach Rodney Eade says Jaeger O'Meara and David Swallow have taken a big step forward in their recoveries from knee injury operations but neither is a certainty for round 1. Both of them have been running
“David Swallow ran on the AlterG two weeks ago for the first time, which is the treadmill and he started his running on grass last Thursday”.
“Jaeger [O’Meara] started AlterG today so he’s about a week or so behind David but he’s progressing really well. He got a really good report last week off the tendon specialist.”
- Eade says Gary Ablett (shoulder) and Dion Prestia (knee) will be available for round 1 unless anything happens along the way.
“Dion’s doing half the footy drills at the moment, he’s doing 50 per cent”.
“It’s a bit like Gary, he’s a bit behind Gary obviously but we’re just integrating him slowly and he did about 10 to 12 k today total in volume and he did about half the footy drills so we’ll gradually put him in the program which should be after Christmas where he’ll be fully in.”