MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 13: Jack Martin of the Blues in action during the 2020 AFL Round 02 match between the Carlton Blues and the Melbourne Demons at Marvel Stadium on June 13, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images)
Carlton forward pairing Jack Martin and Zac Fisher will be sidelined for the next six weeks with injuries.
The Blues announced on Tuesday that Fisher is suffering from an ankle injury picked up late into Carlton's loss to Collingwood last Thursday, while Martin sustained a PCL knee injury in the match.
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Carlton's high performance director Andrew Russell revealed the pair won't require surgery but will miss the next six weeks of action.
āJack Martin was your classic PCL mechanism of knee-on-knee. Initially, he wasnāt too bad coming out of the game but heās had some swelling,ā Russell toldĀ Carlton Media.Ā
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āThatās going to require him to be on the sidelines for somewhere around six weeks.
āFisherās is the opposite to his syndesmosis ankle last yearā¦ heās got some bone stress. We think heās at this stage heās going to miss around six weeks of footy and then weāll see him back out there.ā
Russell also revealed that forward Jack Silvagni is likely to return from a shoulder injury for the Blues' clash against Fremantle on Sunday.