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HAWTHORN'S premiership defence has been rocked by a full-blown injury crisis, with defending best-and-fairest winner Josh Gibson out for up to three months.
As revealed on superfooty.com.au yesterday, Gibson has had surgery to repair a left pectoral muscle tear suffered in a marking collision with Kurt Tippett.
THE HAWKING WOUNDED
Amazingly, Gibson flew to Los Angeles to catch up with his girlfriend this week but returned on Wednesday and told club medicos the injury was not healing.
A scan revealed the damage, with Gibson in surgery last night for an injury Hawthorn footy manager Chris Fagan said would put him out for ten weeks.
Fagan told the Herald Sun last night the leadership group and coach Alastair Clarkson had approved his trip to LA well before the Sydney game.
Lance Franklin contests a mark with former teammate Hawthorn's Josh Gibson Picture: Phil Hillyard Source: News Corp Australia
But it understood questions have been asked at club level about why he was allowed to go after sustaining the injury.
"The doctor said to him that he will get some bruising come out in his bicep and might experience a bit of tingling for a few days,'' Fagan said.
"He went to LA, he went to see his girlfriend there, which he had full approval from the leadership group, and from Clarko and myself, there were no dramas there, the doctors said there was no need to worry about any treatment, and said, "You can look after it yourself".
It means the Hawks' best six players will be missing against Port Adelaide next weekend if captain Luke Hodge fails to recover from hamstring soreness.
Already the club is missing its best-and-fairest winner in Gibson, the reigning Norm Smith Medallist in Brian Lake, its best game-breaker in Cyril Rioli and its best midfielder in Sam Mitchell.
Jarryd Roughead is suspended this week, Rioli could miss more than a month, Mitchell is out for seven more weeks with a hamstring tendon injury and Lake continues to battle with repeated calf issues.
The Hawks are shocked at the spate of serious injuries, many of which could drag out longer than the official return date.
Fagan said the ten-week prognosis was a best-case scenario, but said Gibson was keen to play on for another three years.
"He will be 10 weeks providing everything goes well and they obviously expect it to. They have to reattach the tendon and he will have to go through full rehab,'' he said.
"We have to look after him, you could take a punt and say let's play him and go with it, but he would have ended up with a pretty ordinary pectoral shoulder connection and we are hopeful that Josh Gibson is going to play for another three or four years, so we have to look after him."
Grand Final emergency Jed Anderson was struck down by pre-season pneumonia and now has a shoulder injury which might end his season.
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