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Posted Mar 3, 2009 - 10:33 AM
Essendon veteran on-baller Mark McViegh could be fit to play in round one of the AFL season after scans revealed his ankle injury was healing quickly.
McViegh suffered a grade-one strain to his tibia-fibula joint in his left ankle during the club’s exciting two-point win over the Lions on Friday night and is likely to miss at the most, four weeks.
Bombers football operations manager Paul Hamilton said that the joint that was injured is a weight-bearing one, so it’s hard to predict exactly when McVeigh will be fully fit again.
He added that it depended on how he responded to the recovery program, so it could be two weeks, it could be four weeks.
According to Hamilton there is a good chance McViegh could take the field for the first home and away game of the regular season.
