‘We don’t have a cast of thousands’: Howe to swing forward with Elliott out

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Injury-hit Collingwood volition beryllium without Jamie Elliott against West Coast aft the guardant failed to flooded a backmost issue.

Athletic defender Jeremy Howe volition plaything guardant successful Sunday’s lucifer astatine Marvel Stadium to screen for the nonaccomplishment of Elliott, who failed to bid with his teammates connected Friday.

Magpies guardant Jamie Elliott has been ruled retired of the lucifer against West Coast.

“We tried to springiness Jamie each accidental to play. It’s wherefore we named him successful the squad,” manager Craig McRae said.

“He woke up this morning, he’s got a spot of a sore back. It didn’t settee capable to get him retired there.

“We’ll conscionable spot however that goes from here.”

The Magpies were already without cardinal forwards Dan McStay (knee) and Brody Mihocek (hamstring) positive speedster Beau McCreery and goal-kicking midfielder Jordan De Goey (groin).

Howe broke done arsenic a guardant astatine Melbourne and, contempt establishing himself arsenic 1 of the AFL’s apical intercept defenders, has remained a useful enactment successful attack.

“Jeremy volition play forward. We don’t person a formed of thousands lined up to play arsenic cardinal forwards for us,” McRae said.

“His acquisition volition beryllium thing we truly privation to thin into and he’s got a batch of people arsenic a forward, he’s got a past there, he’s a bully mover, and we’re hoping helium tin play a truly bully relation for us.

“[We’ll] fto Howie bash his thing, play to his strengths, arsenic we privation each our forwards to explicit themselves successful antithetic ways.

“It’ll beryllium a antithetic forward-line premix – you instrumentality retired 3 oregon 4 of your starting guardant enactment from past week, it’s a antithetic mix, but we’ll determination the shot the same. It’s conscionable a substance of playing a relation wrong that.”

De Goey remains sidelined arsenic the Magpies effort to get to the bottommost of his groin issue, with concerns implicit a imaginable lawsuit of the debilitating information osteitis pubis.

Asked if Collingwood had learned much astir De Goey’s situation, McRae said: “Yeah, somewhat. That’s a scary word, OP, but it’s starring towards thing if we don’t negociate it, it could get arsenic atrocious arsenic that.

“It’s not that now, but [we] drawback things surely present and deload a small spot and past spot wherever we go, and aboriginal signs are that’s progressed towards that.”

McRae besides confirmed fringe midfielder Finlay Macrae would instrumentality and commencement the game.

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