Collingwood's Adam Treloar will miss the Magpies' clash with GWS on Thursday night, despite laughing off suggestions that he had any injury concerns.
Treloar reportedly copped a few knocks during their intra-club match last week, with the 24-year-old adding to a growing list of key Pies under injury clouds ahead of their round one clash with Hawthorn on March 24.
''The body's fine,'' Treloar said. "Everything's all good. (It was) just a maintenance check.
''With about three, four weeks left before the season you want to make sure you're in fine nick.''
Jamie Elliott (ankle), Daniel Wells (achilles), Jeremy Howe (calf), Alex Fasolo (shoulder) and Darcy Moore (achilles) are all players in Collingwood's best 22 who have had interrupted preseasons while Jordan De Goey is another player in their best side who is also unavailable through disciplinary reasons.
When asked about his wayward teammate, Treloar was positive around De Goey's way back into the senior side.
"Obviously he's disappointed in what's happened, and we hold him in such high regard that we get disappointed," he said.
"We want not only great players at our footy club but great people who put the footy club first and I think there's a few lessons Jordy can learn from that.''
"I think we all would," Treloar said when asked if he would like to have De Goey by his side in round one.
"...because he's here to help us win games. Him going away, working...and not in the footy bubble is going to help him really progress as a person and come back and be firing.
"And if he lives up to what's happened and has gone back and really assessed where he's at as a person and putting the club first...I think that's the thing that he's missed the last couple of times he's sort of stuffed up," he said.
"But in saying that, he is a great person and a great character and is one of our favourite people at the club because of the way he is as a person. If he's up for selection, then I wouldn't have any doubt that he's going to be in the team because he's an absolute star."
