Wodonga is sweating on the results of scans to determine the extent of a knee injury to in-form forward Noah Spiteri suffered last weekend against Lavington. / (min cost $ 0 ) or signup to continue reading Spiteri had started the match in promising fashion with two early goals before injuring his knee late in the first term. "I just went up for a mark as normal and it wasn't so much the landing but the ball got out the back and I went to turn and accelerate at the same time of landing," Spiteri said.
"I felt my knee buckle underneath me and heard a massive pop. "I had instant pain for about 30 seconds but then it subsided so I went back on at the start of the second quarter. "But I only lasted a couple of minutes because my knee felt unstable and loose.
"So there wasn't much use for me running around when we had three fit guys on the bench. "My gut feeling is that I'm set for an extended stint on the sidelines." Spiteri is set to have scans on his knee in Canberra on Wednesday.
"The physio without seeing the scans said that I've done damage to my meniscus and MCL (medial collateral ligament) which is 90 percent definite," he said. "He feels it is 50/50 that I've also done my ACL (anterior cruciate ligament). "So I'm hoping for a miracle and expecting the worst.
"If it is only my MCL it's probably six to eight weeks on the sidelines "I would take that and run now if I had the chance. "But if it is my ACL then I'm gone for 12-months obviously." In what proved to be a dark day a.
