Steele injured his knee early in last Saturday's loss to Marrar, where he is now expected to miss the Blues' final two games of the Farrer League season.

"It's expected to be a PCL at the moment," Steele said.

"I haven't been to see anyone yet but at this stage I'll be gone for the season. It's right in behind the knee cap.

"We'll bring in a few younger kids in and give them a bit of a go instead of me running around half-fit.

"I've had a bad run with injuries this year so hopefully I can string something together for next year."

Injuries have restricted Steele to 12 games this season, two of which he's gone down in.

The speedster has still been in Coleambally's best on nine occasions, in his first season of taking on the coaching duties, alongside Luke Hillier.

The pair are likely to take on the role for a second year, but are yet to discuss that formally with the club.

For now, the focus is on avoiding the wooden spoon after they dropped to eighth spot at the weekend, with only percentage keeping them ahead of Barellan and off the bottom of the table.

The Blues travel to take on Barellan on Saturday

"That's mainly it. The last couple of weeks we've started to play four quarters worth of footy, which is promising," he said.

"Hopefully we can string it together this weekend and beat Barellan because we owe them one for the start of the year. It didn't really go our way and it wasn't really our fault how it panned out, but everyone is still pretty much hurting from that loss so hopefully we can return the favour and get a win over them.

"Then we've got Jets at Coly so that's another winnable one if we perform well enough."

Barellan was awarded the win at Coleambally early in the season after the game was cancelled late in the third quarter due to a badly broken leg to Blues defender Tom Morton.

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Barellan were ahead by nine points in a low scoring affair, 5.2 (32) to 2.11 (21).

To be fighting to avoid the bottom is disappointing for Coleambally, who had top-three aspirations at the start of the year.

"It's been frustrating for us, especially for the team that we had on paper but just couldn't gel together but we've been smashed by injuries," Steele said.

"I think injuries were our biggest factor. We never had our full side on the park once this year.

"You put in a pre-season, recruit well and it all falls apart when the season comes along."

Coleambally is already turning their attention to 2022.

"We've got a few recruits we're talking to at the moment so hopefully we can get them across for next year," Steele said.

Shane Pound will break the club record for most senior games played at Barellan on Saturday, should he be selected.

There was some speculation that Pound would retire on 333 games, equal alongside Damian Mannes, but Steele hoped that would not be the case.

"I'll find out at training (Thursday night). I hope he does go again because it will be a headache for us if he doesn't," Steele said.

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