CAMPERDOWN hopes to have midfielder Will Lord back in August after he underwent surgery for a nasty broken arm he suffered in Saturday's narrow defeat.
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The former Geelong Football League player was taken to Warrnambool Base Hospital after landing awkwardly on his arm during the Magpies' 13.8 (86) to 12.11 (83) defeat to North Warrnambool Eagles at Leura Oval.
Coach Neville Swayn said Lord, who joined the club in 2019 after moving to Camperdown, came off the ground midway through the second quarter.
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Swayn hoped the talented midfielder, who had surgery on Sunday morning, would be pushing for selection later in the year.
"We have got a couple of byes so the worst case is he has got to have six weeks in the plaster, as there is pins in there as well, then they think at this stage it will take six weeks to strengthen it up," he said.
"We have every intention he will be back at some stage in August. With the two byes hopefully we see him again this year.
"He is feeling pretty good. He is a positive young man and is already talking about coming back bigger and better as soon as he can start running and doing fitness stuff."
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Swayn rued his side's loss after their final-quarter fightback fell agonisingly short.
"We are confident how we finish games and over the first four weeks we are growing in belief we can finish off strongly," he said.
"I said (at three-quarter-time) even if we get down, and we were by over three goals at one stage, the belief is still there that we can finish strong and we did but just we couldn't convert late, that was all."
Swayn said his side would heavily review how it enters the forward line late in tight games heading into its match against Warrnambool after the bye.
"We will look at it and have a hard review of it on Tuesday and it will be something that going forward if other sides do it we might be able to change how we go about it," he said.
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Sean Hardeman
I'm a sports journalist for the Warrnambool Standard who covers a number of different sports across the south-west of Victoria. I enjoy watching cycling, surfing, football, soccer and Formula 1.
I'm a sports journalist for the Warrnambool Standard who covers a number of different sports across the south-west of Victoria. I enjoy watching cycling, surfing, football, soccer and Formula 1.
