Menzel suffers another setback

Daniel Menzel has suffered another setback in his recovery from a second knee reconstruction and has been withdrawn from training. Picture: Chris Scott Source: Herald Sun

EMERGING Geelong forward Daniel Menzel has suffered a setback in his comeback from a second knee reconstruction and has been withdrawn from training.

The luckless Menzel, 21, did not make the trip to Falls Creek for the Cats' camp after tweaking his recently reconstructed knee at training.

Club medicos opted to keep the livewire forward in Geelong to ensure he had access to the best available medical treatment.

Menzel was completing an agility drill at training when he felt the tweak and immediately left the field.

But the Cats said the injury was minor and they remained confident Menzel would resume his recovery after the Christmas break. He remains on track for Round 1.

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"He was just doing a little bit of twisting work, nothing major at all, so he'll be fine," Geelong assistant coach Nigel Lappin said yesterday.

"It was a slight tweak on it. Just precautionary ... he just iced it straight up and was sent off to get it checked out, but it seems fine."

"We wanted to make sure that the best treatment was available for him, so he stayed back there (in Geelong). I guess he'll nearly be ready to head back to Adelaide and join his family for Christmas."

Another youngster, Billie Smedts, spent yesterday's solid 150-minute session in football's version of solitary confinement as he battled to overcome a flare-up of his hip problems.

Smedts could only jog laps and take part in stationary ball work by himself away from the main group, despite receiving plenty of physio treatment before the session.

Lappin said Smedts should be right after Christmas.

"He's been pulled out of training for a couple of weeks, so hopefully it's nothing too serious and it will settle down," Lap- pin said.

"He's done the majority of training this pre-season and looked good."

Smedts missed the entire 2011 season after having surgery to fix a hereditary hip problem that also affected his twin sister, Maddison.

Speedster Travis Varcoe rejoined the main group after overcoming his foot issues and looked sharp yesterday, and ruckman Hamish McIntosh took part in most of the session in his comeback from knee surgery.

Young gun Allen Christensen left the field late in yesterday's session after appearing to roll his right ankle.

He immediately had the ankle iced and Lappin said he was confident Christensen escaped any major damage.

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