Hear from High Performance Manager Ben Serpell, who provides a Round 5 Injury Update ahead of Gather Round against Fremantle.

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"Not the result (we were looking for v Brisbane). But came through pretty well. No new injuries, which we're happy with," Serpell told Richmond Media on Tuesday.

"There was some good game time, good experience into some of our young lads."

Josh Smillie had a successful VFL debut on Saturday, collecting 10 disposals while playing on managed minutes in a win over the Lions.

"Josh is looking really good after that game. We're all excited to see him back out there," he said.

Meantime, Hugo Ralphsmith also made his return via the VFL.

"Hugo's GPS numbers were through the roof. It was a really good demonstration from him to say that he's ready to go. Hopefully this weekend he's another discussion at the selection table," Serpell said.

Liam Fawcett

Concussion, Test

"Liam's protocol today was to get through some training with modified contact. He got through that successfully.

"He'll have a day off tomorrow and then we'll go full contact training Wednesday.

"Provided he gets through that without any headaches or symptoms, we'll get him available for selection this weekend."

Kane McAuliffe

Foot, 1-2 weeks

"Kane presented to training a couple of days ago with some soreness in his foot. We took a precautionary approach. We sought expert opinion from inside and outside the Club.

"What we've found in the last little while is that he's responded to a little bit of downtime.

"Whilst we'll rest him this week, he'll probably be available for selection the following week, in the week we play Gold Coast."

Rhyan Mansell

Shoulder, 2-3 weeks

"Rhyan sustained a shoulder injury back in our game against Port Adelaide. Obviously he put in a mountain of work the week after and got himself up for the game against St Kilda.

"Unfortunately, he re-injured his shoulder then (against St Kilda). We'd always made a decision that we were going to jab his shoulder the following week (Round 4), to put him in a good position and give him a bit of downtime.

"He's progressing quite well and will be available for selection once he serves his ban."

Dion Prestia

Achilles, 3-4 weeks

"Dion's still going through (rehab). No real progression on him.

"He's probably going to go through more of a plateau at the moment, until we can see that he's progressing well.

"We'll have some updates on him as soon as we can."

Judson Clarke

ACL, 2-4 weeks

"All going to plan, he's (Judson) available to play in the next 2-4 weeks now."

Mykelti Lefau, Tylar Young, Taj Hotton, Josh Gibcus

ACLs, TBC

"The ACL guys are taking real big advances at the moment.

"Just last week we took them over to AAMI Park and did some testing with Dean from Prepared To Play. We got some extra little results from him, to see where they're at and where they're tracking.

"Happy to say they're tracking fantastically."

Injury List

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Player	Injury	Estimated Return
4. Sam Lalor	Knee	Unavailable Lalor had a collision incident involving his right knee late in the Round 22 AFL game. Read Article
29. Jasper Alger	Ankle	Unavailable Alger has pulled up with some ankle soreness after the Round 21 VFL game. Read Article
21. Noah Balta	Toe	Season Balta injured his toe after an awkward landing during a contest in Round 19. Read Article
22. Sam Cumming	Ankle/Shoulder	Season Cumming suffered a moderate grade syndesmosis injury in a tackle during Round 21. The ankle injury will not require surgery, but the Club will take the opportunity for him to go in and have his shoulder operated on. Read Article
7. Rhyan Mansell	Foot	Season The Club sought specialist opinion regarding Rhyan Mansell's foot soreness leading into Round 21. Following their assessment, the Club has made the decision to rule him out for the remainder of the year. Read Article
38. Tom Sims	Toe	Season Sims has some medial sesamoid pain, with the plan to offload him until he is pain-free. Read Article
49. Kaleb Smith	Quad	Season Smith sustained a quad strain in the July 19 VFL game. Read Article
2. Jacob Hopper	Ankle	Season Hopper suffered a stress fracture in his ankle following the Round 14 game against Brisbane. Read Article
8. Jonty Faull	Back	Season Faull will miss the remainder of the 2026 AFL season due to stress fractures in his back. Read Article
18. Josh Gibcus	Knee	Season Gibcus sustained an ACL sprain in the VFL Round 5 game. Read Article
16. Josh Smillie	Quad	Season Smillie and the Club are entirely focused on setting him up for a full pre-season. Read Article

4. Sam Lalor

Lalor had a collision incident involving his right knee late in the Round 22 AFL game.

Read Article

Injury: Knee

Est. Return: Unavailable

29. Jasper Alger

Alger has pulled up with some ankle soreness after the Round 21 VFL game.

Read Article

Injury: Ankle

Est. Return: Unavailable

21. Noah Balta

Balta injured his toe after an awkward landing during a contest in Round 19.

Read Article

Injury: Toe

Est. Return: Season

22. Sam Cumming

Cumming suffered a moderate grade syndesmosis injury in a tackle during Round 21. The ankle injury will not require surgery, but the Club will take the opportunity for him to go in and have his shoulder operated on.

Read Article

Injury: Ankle/Shoulder

Est. Return: Season

7. Rhyan Mansell

The Club sought specialist opinion regarding Rhyan Mansell's foot soreness leading into Round 21. Following their assessment, the Club has made the decision to rule him out for the remainder of the year.

Read Article

Injury: Foot

Est. Return: Season

38. Tom Sims

Sims has some medial sesamoid pain, with the plan to offload him until he is pain-free.

Read Article

Injury: Toe

Est. Return: Season

49. Kaleb Smith

Smith sustained a quad strain in the July 19 VFL game.

Read Article

Injury: Quad

Est. Return: Season

2. Jacob Hopper

Hopper suffered a stress fracture in his ankle following the Round 14 game against Brisbane.

Read Article

Injury: Ankle

Est. Return: Season

8. Jonty Faull

Faull will miss the remainder of the 2026 AFL season due to stress fractures in his back.

Read Article

Injury: Back

Est. Return: Season

18. Josh Gibcus

Gibcus sustained an ACL sprain in the VFL Round 5 game.

Read Article

Injury: Knee

Est. Return: Season

16. Josh Smillie

Smillie and the Club are entirely focused on setting him up for a full pre-season.

Read Article

Injury: Quad

Est. Return: Season

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