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Rapidly improving young Bomber Mark McVeigh will undergo ankle surgery tonight to remove a piece of floating cartilage from the joint. As a result McVeigh will be on a modified training program for the next four weeks. Persistent soreness in the joint and a subsequent MRI scan revealed the floating cartilage and necessitated the arthroscopy.
""It is just a clean up more than anything and certainly not a major setback. I would expect he would be available for selection for our pre-season match against Fremantle,"" Essendon football manager Dominic Cato said.
McVeigh, 22, played every game for Essendon last season after finding his niche deep in defence. It was a critical move for the team with McVeigh's success down back releasing Mark Johnson to the midfield.
Senior-coach in waiting Mark Harvey thought his time had finally arrived when he heard Essendon senior coach Kevin Sheedy had collapsed on a Perth beach last weekend – or so rumour would have it. Now all is well with Sheeds, Harvey thought it was time to make his true feelings known when word filtered through that the coach was allegedly on his last legs.
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