COLLINGULLIE-Glenfield Park have their fingers crossed Jayden Klemke's latest knee injury won't keep him sidelined long term after he went down late in the second half of last week's win at Griffith.
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Klemke ruptured his ACL on SANFL debut for West Adelaide in 2019, but thankfully a recurrence of that issue has been ruled out.
However, it could be some time before Klemke learns his fate after scheduled scans on Tuesday were postponed to next week due to COVID.
Klemke will miss at least a handful of weeks and his omission is a big blow to a Demons side which has entrenched itself in the top five with four wins from five games before they host Coolamon on Saturday.
"It was a bit deflating to lose him at the end of the second quarter," Demons coach Brett Somerville said.
"It's not ACL, but it could be anything below that. We're looking at at least two or three weeks.
"That's all you can do, hope for the best. He's been playing a good season and stepping up in the middle when we were missing blokes, so hopefully it's only short term.
"It's disappointing, we start getting guys back and then others go out through injury or unavailability."
Half-back flanker Daniel Frawley's expected return from hamstring and knee injuries last week was aborted, and the club will wait until later in the week to see whether he is fit to take on the Hoppers.
"It's a hamstring plus a kneecap injury I think he's been playing with for year, but adding a hamstring issue to it hasn't helped," Somerville said.
In better news Ed Perryman will return from a two-week suspension against a Coolamon side desperate to find their mojo after losses to Ganmain-Grong Grong-Matong and Turvey Park in their last three games.
"It's pleasing to see all the young fellas stepping up in young absences and it's reward for effort," Somerville said.
"Obviously they'll come out firing after the result on the weekend, generally it doesn't matter when you play Coolamon it's always a good tussle.
"We probably haven't started very well most games and it was pleasing at Griffith we did that. Hopefully we can have that start and keep pushing through with it."
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