Clayton Oliver injured at training

Now, just as things were looking up for Clayton Oliver, the Melbourne midfielder has yet another injury concern live to Nathan Carey and Nathan. What’s happened this time? Oh Tony, It looks like a dislocated finger for Clayton Oliver. He was looking good at training for most part and then towards the end of the session he’s hurt that finger and they’ve taken him straight off the track and sent him in for a scam. But we have just in the past hour heard from one of the days assistants, Troy Chaplin. He says. That scan was just precautionary, nothing to worry about and it’d take a lot more than that to keep Clayton Oliver off the plane to Adelaide to face Port Adelaide. So that’s a big sigh of relief for these fans. And there was also some really good signs from two other important days at training today. Back training just days after a hospital visit thanks to a cracked rib, Stephen May is as tough as they get. He’s tough, you know. I’m sure. I’m sure if he runs today and he runs well, he’ll be knocking on the door saying put me in. May will fly with the team to Adelaide, even though he’s not expected to be cleared to face the Power. But he should be right to go for gather round lots of players who played with previously. We certainly won’t be silly in that space. We’ll make sure that he’s right. He’s feeling good, he’s feeling healthy and he’s able to play and perform. Even better news for Jake Lever. After hurting his knee, he looks right for Saturday night. That’s exciting for our club after the weekend, where there’s a bit of doom and gloom about having, you know, two key defensive pillars out. Jake Lever really confident he’ll play at Essendon. Peter Wright making sure he’s good to go when his format suspension is up. Coach Brad Scott revealing they were advised not to challenge the ban in case it was increased to six weeks. They’ve iterated the rules to a point where some of the finest legal minds in our country can’t find. A way to challenge the charge still expect that new Essendon edge to remain. We really want to encourage our players to to make the ball their object and to and we still feel that Pete made the ball his object and you know he had to make a you know an absolute split second decision and and the reality is sometimes players are going to get that slightly wrong. Harrison Jones is a likely replacement for Wright Well Darcy Parrish looks finally ready to return from his calf injury. Nathan Curry 9 News.