Richmond’s Kane Lambert is set to miss the rest of the home-and-away season, after undergoing minor ankle surgery.
The injury was sustained early in the Tigers’ big victory over Gold Coast on the weekend.
“First quarter, he flagged a bit of an issue with his ankle after an incident in the game,” Richmond’s Physical Performance Manager Peter Burge told the club website.
“He played out the game, but probably wasn’t able to run as well as he normally would. He was a little bit inhibited and came in yesterday limping.
“So we had that scanned and it came out that he’s got a partial syndesmosis sprain in his ankle.
"He went into some minor surgery this morning to put some reinforcement onto the ankle.
“Right now he’s probably going to miss the next two weeks and we’re going to prepare him for the first final.”