Michael Voss insists star forward Charlie Curnow will play St Kilda on Friday despite ‘nice little collision' with teammate
Carlton coach Michael Voss denied star forward Charlie Curnow was having injections in his knee just to get through training and insisted he was 'fine' to play St Kilda despite a 'nice little collision' with a teammate.
Curnow collided with star ruckman Tom De Koning late in Wednesday's session but Voss said there was no issue with the 28-year-old's knee and he would train again on Thursday before Friday night's game.
Voss said he tried to 'fob off' reports around Curnow but did want to clarify his fitness.
'He'll be fine,' Voss said on Thursday.
'The last 30 seconds of the drill, him and Tom had a nice little collision, so it's not exactly what you want to see.
'They're both fine. I tried to have a bit of a laugh to fob it off, but (an initial report he was) holding his knee is incorrect … he's fine.'
Voss said it 'wasn't the case' that Curnow had been having pain injections before training.
'You don't need to know specifics – let's just say he's playing, he said.
'I think I've been pretty emphatic at this point that he's playing.'
Jack Silvagni returns to the Blues line-up after breaking his hand in the first quarter of the round 7 win over Geelong to bolster the team after last week's road loss that Voss said was reviewed hard.
'The recent form says we have been going OK, but we let ourselves down last week,' he said.
'It's just taking the opportunity to reset and reinforce what works well for us.'
That will include a renewed focus on effort, which was down against the Crows and left Voss 'disappointed the most'.
'We'd made a lot of ground in a lot of areas … we're looking for a response,' he said.
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