Hear from High Performance Manager Ben Serpell, who provides a Round 5 Injury Update ahead of Gather Round against Fremantle.
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Injury Report: Round 5
High Performance Manager Ben Serpell gives an update ahead of our Gather Round clash against Fremantle.
"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.
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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."
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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."
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| Player | Injury | Estimated Return |
|---|---|---|
3. Dion Prestia |
Hamstring |
Test
Prestia suffered hamstring awareness in Round 16 against Collingwood. Read Article |
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47. Oliver Hayes-Brown |
Knee |
Test
Hayes-Brown is a test to return to availability after recovering from knee soreness. Read Article |
|
38. Tom Sims |
MCL |
Test
Sims sustained an MCL injury in the Round 9 VFL game. Read Article |
|
4. Sam Lalor |
Achilles |
Round 20
Lalor suffered a partial tear to his Achilles during a training session in the lead-up to Round 8. Read Article |
|
16. Josh Smillie |
Quad |
Round 20-22
Smillie sustained a small re-tear of the injury he acquired in February. Read Article |
|
50. Campbell Gray |
Hamstring |
Round 20-23
Gray suffered a high-grade hamstring strain in Round 10. Read Article |
|
5. Jack Ross |
Concussion |
TBC
Ross suffered a concussion in Richmond's Round 17 AFL game. Read Article |
|
49. Kaleb Smith |
Concussion |
TBC
Smith sustained a concussion in Round 15 of the VFL. Read Article |
|
11. Luke Trainor |
Concussion |
TBC
Trainor sustained a concussion at training in the lead-up to Round 17. Read Article |
|
2. Jacob Hopper |
Ankle |
TBC
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 |
3. Dion Prestia
Prestia suffered hamstring awareness in Round 16 against Collingwood.
Read Article
47. Oliver Hayes-Brown
Hayes-Brown is a test to return to availability after recovering from knee soreness.
Read Article
38. Tom Sims
Sims sustained an MCL injury in the Round 9 VFL game.
Read Article
4. Sam Lalor
Lalor suffered a partial tear to his Achilles during a training session in the lead-up to Round 8.
Read Article
16. Josh Smillie
Smillie sustained a small re-tear of the injury he acquired in February.
Read Article
50. Campbell Gray
Gray suffered a high-grade hamstring strain in Round 10.
Read Article
5. Jack Ross
Ross suffered a concussion in Richmond's Round 17 AFL game.
Read Article
49. Kaleb Smith
Smith sustained a concussion in Round 15 of the VFL.
Read Article
11. Luke Trainor
Trainor sustained a concussion at training in the lead-up to Round 17.
Read Article
2. Jacob Hopper
Hopper suffered a stress fracture in his ankle following the Round 14 game against Brisbane.
Read Article
8. Jonty Faull
Faull will miss the remainder of the 2026 AFL season due to stress fractures in his back.
Read Article
18. Josh Gibcus
Gibcus sustained an ACL sprain in the VFL Round 5 game.
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