ROKEWOOD-Corindhap's premiership campaign has suffered a serious setback with playing coach Tomas Mullane-Grant likely to miss the remainder of the Lexton Plains Football League season.
The Grasshoppers full-forward, who has kicked 74 goals so far this season in just 10 matches, has broken the fibula in his right leg, which is now in plaster.
He came off in the last quarter of Rokewood-Corindhap's 18-point win over Lexton on Saturday, having booted five goals.
"I just got tackled and thought it was soft tissue, a corky, but went to the doc's and had some precautionary X-rays and it came up with a broken leg," Mullane-Grant said.
It looked likely he would miss eight weeks, which would make him available for the RegionalOne LPFL preliminary final.
"I'll do everything I possibly can to get back for finals, but the doc said I wouldn't, but for finals footy you do some silly things," he said.
Mullane-Grant said he was "absolutely shattered" by the injury, but as coach was determined to see it as a positive.
"Now it opens up our forward line - we can give others a go.
"We've got a really good forward line in the twos."
Dallas Byars is leading the goal kicking in the LPFL reserves with 42 goals and is one possible replacement, but Mullane-Grant also said Carl Matheson, Adrian Gibson and Tim Carroll could come into
the senior line-up for this Saturday's big clash against third-placed Carngham-Linton.
Mullane-Grant is in his first season with the Grasshoppers, having spent the last two years as assistant coach at Bannockburn in the Geelong and District Football League, where he led the goal kicking
both years and was named the league best-and-fairest in 2008
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Last Modified on 01/03/2010 16:31