Essendon forward Joe Daniher will make his long-awaited return to football in the next three weeks, according to Bombers great Tim Watson.
Daniher hasn’t played since Round 9 last year due to a persistent groin injury but the All-Australian forward has travelled with the Bombers to their hub on the Gold Coast.
“I’m hearing that his training is coming along very, very nicely. And I’m tapping my nostril as I say that,” Watson told SEN Breakfast.
“I think within the next three weeks we’ll see Joe (Daniher).”
Watson pondered whether clubs who are hubbed together will organise scratch matches to ensure players returning from injury can get valuable match practice.
“This is the problem though for all clubs, not just Essendon, but if you’ve got a player who hasn’t played for some time, you’ve got to hunt around now and try and get some scratch match-type footy for those guys,” Watson said.
“I wonder what they’re all doing up there, whether they (the AFL clubs) have got some sort of gentleman’s agreement that they can come together.
“Say there’s four or five teams on the Gold Coast, is it possible that they can end up picking a game of 18 a side between those five teams of players that need a little bit of a run around?”
Daniher is out of contract at the end of the 2020 season.