Geelong coach Chris Scott was coy when pressed about the Jake Kolodjashnij concussion saga at his weekly press conference on Wednesday.
Kolodjashnij has been away from the club since coming forward as the player at the centre of the saga and Scott has not spoken to him in the intervening period.
“I was aware at our captain's run before the Essendon game last Friday night, I was aware that he was unavailable at that point,” Scott said.
“Because the situation is the status quo I haven't felt the need to get an update.”
Asked if he believed Kolodjashnij would play again at Geelong, Scott said: “I couldn't speculate on that”.
Geelong has refuted reports that a waiver was signed, instead indicating it was an acknowledgement of risk after an amber ruling from the league's concussion panel.
Scott stopped short of launching an impassioned defence of those involved in the saga but made it clear he stood by them.
“There is part of me who would like to give an impassioned defence of certain people within our club, but I just don't think that would help at the moment,” Scott said.
The Geelong coach has long supported player privacy in the face of public interest, with the club notorious for the vagueness of its injury lists and spoke of privacy when addressing the media.
“I think they are concerned that he is concerned that he feels like his privacy has been invaded here,” Scott said.
Scott also provided an update on injured veterans Patrick Dangerfield and Jeremy Cameron, with the former “very likely” to play and the latter to be held back.
“This is a situation where our medical staff are saying that we think it is possible that we explore him playing this week,” Scott said of Cameron.
“But we just made the decision to hold him back, given that we do have at least one other game before we potentially start a finals series.”
The coach added a deep finals run would be needed for the Max Holmes to be seen again this year.
