A cagey Michael Voss has declared Charlie Curnow fit to play against St Kilda after the star forward was involved in a last-minute training collision with ruckman Tom De Koning on Wednesday night.
The Carlton coach denied that Curnow had hurt his troubled knee in the clash but refused to elaborate any further on where the dual Coleman medallist had been hurt.
Michael Voss says Charlie Curnow is fit to play against St Kilda.Credit: Getty Images
“The last 30 seconds of the drill, him and Tom had a nice little collision,” Voss said on Thursday morning.
“So it’s not exactly what you want to see in the last 30 seconds, but he’ll be fine.”
Voss was asked what went through his mind when he saw his key forward go down clutching his knee.
“I tried to have a bit of a laugh to fob it off, but holding his knee is incorrect. But he’s fine,” he said.
Voss also flatly denied a suggestion that Curnow had been having injections in his knee before training.
“Before training? No, no, that’s not the case at all,” he said.
Voss said expected Curnow to get through training on Thursday morning before being picked to take on the Saints at the MCG on Friday night for Spud’s Game – a game to raise awareness for mental health in honour of Danny Frawley. Curnow completed the light session without issue.
When asked to expand on what happened to Curnow when he collided with De Koning, Voss said that “it was just a knock”.
“You don’t need to know specifics. Let’s just say he’s playing,” Vioss said.
Curnow had a disrupted pre-season after surgery on his ankle and then his knee in December.
He missed the first two games of the season before returning in round three against Hawthorn.
Voss said defender Jack Silvagni should be available to take on the Saints just a week after undergoing surgery to repair a broken hand.
Silvagni’s likely participation pits him against the club where his father, the two-time premiership player and the AFL’s full-back of the century Stephen Silvagni, is the list manager.
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