{"id":46653,"date":"2021-03-18T22:36:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T23:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=46653"},"modified":"2021-03-19T02:04:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T02:04:02","slug":"huge-blow-for-cats-as-gun-recruit-cops-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=46653","title":{"rendered":"Huge blow for Cats as gun recruit cops injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man brought to <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/geelong-cats\" title=\"Geelong\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geelong<\/a> to lift them from contenders to premiers will have to wait for his debut in the blue and white hoops after re-injuring his hamstring.<\/p>\n<p>According to AFL.com.au&#x27;s Mitch Cleary, Cats power forward <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/jeremy-cameron\" title=\"Jeremy Cameron\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeremy Cameron<\/a> strained his hamstring in training on Wednesday, having got back to full strength following <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/afl-news-geelong-cats-football-club-jeremy-cameron-hamstring-injury\/e59d95a0-8130-45a3-b974-bcbaec178a42\" title=\"an injury to the same hamstring in January\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an injury to the same hamstring in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old had played in both of Geelong&#x27;s pre-season games and was expected to make his first <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\" title=\"AFL \" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFL <\/a>appearance for his new club against Adelaide tomorrow but his latest setback will likely keep him out for at least three weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"c98ef93c-ddc4-4fc7-9631-1310a211bbe4\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c98ef93c-ddc4-4fc7-9631-1310a211bbe4\" alt=\"Jeremy Cameron\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Cameron has already been ruled out of next week&#x27;s clash with Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>The Cats play rivals Hawthorn in Round 3 and Melbourne in Round 4.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of Cameron in Geelong&#x27;s season-opener will put major pressure on spearhead Tom Hawkins who will shoulder a huge load in the forward line, particularly as Esava Ratugolea (leg fracture) is also out of the side.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Crow Josh Jenkins is expected to play against his former side for the first time as a ruck\/forward, while the Cameron injury could prompt the Cats to play midfield star Patrick Dangerfield more time in the forward line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The man brought to Geelong to lift them from contenders to premiers will have to wait for his debut in the blue and white hoops <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=46653\" title=\"Huge blow for Cats as gun recruit cops injury\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46655,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46653\/revisions\/46655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}