Rory Sloane checks on the injured Tom Lynch. Picture: Tom Lynch Source: News Corp Australia
ADELAIDE will today learn the extent of key forward Tom Lynch's shoulder injury — but a ready-made replacement emerged from the club's reserves ranks yesterday.
Lynch and Andy Otten (jarred knee) were expected to have scans yesterday (Saturday) or early this morning following the Crows' trial match victory — an unblemished third pre-season win — against Greater Western Sydney on Friday that delivered four injuries.
Sam Shaw suffered hamstring and glute tightness but is expected to recover quickly while senior midfielder Richard Douglas spent Friday night in Sydney's Westmead Hospital recovering from an accidental knee to the groin.
Matt Crouch was in line to play at Bankstown but awoke with tonsillitis before the match and was ruled out. His illness is expected to be only short-term.
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The key concern remains Lynch, who booted a club-high 33 goals in 17 games for Adelaide last season.
The Crows were yesterday hoping there was no muscle or ligament damage surrounding the dislocated left shoulder joint, but were understood to be bracing for at least minor surgery.
The worst-case outcome suggested missing the first half of the season.
"He's an outstanding character around the club, he's one of these really outgoing guys that gets the boys up and about," midfielder Scott Thompson said.
"He had foot surgery late last year and missed a large chunk of the summer himself and he's got himself back to a stage where he's really fit, obviously playing his first game yesterday, and to dislocate your shoulder is really disappointing.
"But fingers crossed it's not too bad."
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Should Lynch be unavailable for Adelaide's opening match of the 2014 season, against Geelong at Skilled Stadium on March 20, reserve forward Lewis Johnston did all he could to fill the spot with a spectacular seven-goal haul for the club's reserves side yesterday.
Johnston bagged three first-term goals, two in the third and two more in the last with laser accuracy in a perfect audition.
He marked strongly, led and ran hard to space and worked defensively with a big tackle in the final quarter to set up one of teammate Sam Kerridge's four majors.
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Thompson, among the best in Adelaide's win against GWS on Friday, said he was confident the Crows had the depth to cover any loss to injury.
"If need be," he said. "I don't know how bad some of those injuries are at this point, we'll wait until they get assessed.
"We've got 13 days now til the start of the season. We've got some real talent out there today (in the Adelaide reserves) so I hope those boys play well. There may be a window open now with some of the injuries we've got but if that's the case I'm sure a couple of these boys will want to put their hands up."
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