ADAM Treloar has suffered another hamstring setback.
While the Collingwood midfielder obviously has time to get over the injury, his latest soft tissue niggle is far from ideal given the players’ desperation to hang on to pre-season fitness.
Treloar last week sought medical opinion on his latest hamstring issue, which comes after he strained it in the last quarter of the Marsh Cup game against Richmond in Wangaratta on Mach 1.
That tear was to the same area of the hamstring that required surgery in 2018, but it kept him out of the Pies’ stunning Round 1 win over the Western Bulldogs.
Now, Treloar has given it another nick training in isolation.
All players across the competition are on individual programs, but most are training with reasonable intensity given they were at peak fitness when the competition was suspended .
They don’t want to lose that fitness easily.
The league’s players have been told to report back for duty on May 4 for training – a date that so far hasn’t changed given the AFL remains set to reassess matters on May 31.