Collingwood coach leader Craig Mcrae has the difficult but enviable task to work on how to fit five starters again into his match day team for this weekend.

Defender Brayden Maynard exacerbated an existing damage to the planar fascia in LordS ‘ Win with 45 points excessive Northern Melbourne At the weekend and joins the likes of Daniel McStay and Ash Johnson on the club’s short -term injuries list, which will receive a much smaller whole.

Normal Smith medalist Bobby Hill is set to return after he lost the match against Roos for personal reasons and will return to the side of small but influential goals he has produced since his Movement by GWS in early 2023, with 16 goals in his name in 2025.

Scott Pendlebury was a second late retreat along with Hill last round after he went down with a gastro period, forcing Mcrae to call two emergency.

“I don’t remember the last time we had a late retreat,“Said mcrae.

“To be able to think a little on our feet and get things where they had to be again another pleasant part of the game.

“Some boys were not playing up an hour before the match.“

In planning for Friday evening blockr against the sixth place hawthornMcrae is also planning to remember three other important cogs of the Prime Minister’s claim.

34-year-old Stele Sidebottom, average 23 moods and four solutions for the game this season, was ‘managed’ last weekend due to a little concern since then it has come down.

Darcy Moore, who had lost two weeks with a joint AC damage on a shoulder, has also been cleaned to return along with Little Lachie Schultz after he is recovered by the shock suffered in Fremantle two rounds back.

Stair Leaders will seek to extend their attitude At the top of the ladder and revenge last season Loss of 66 points to Hawks in round 19.