Geelong will be sweating on Travis Varcoe's injury status after the livewire injured his left shoulder, while Carlton ruckman Matthew Kreuzer was subbed out with a broken bone in his thumb.
CARLTON has lost Matthew Kreuzer for up to two months after the star ruckman suffered a fractured thumb in last night's 16-point loss to Geelong at Etihad Stadium.
In a cruel blow for the win-less Blues, still chasing their first victory under new coach Mick Malthouse, Kreuzer was subbed out of last night's game at quarter-time, severely hurting his club's chances of causing an upset.
He will miss between six and eight weeks, with Malthouse saying the Blues simply had to make do without their No.1 ruckman.
"It's the nature of the game," Malthouse said last night. "It is a contact sport - you get some back, you lose some.
"No one wants to lose good players. Betts and (Kreuzer) are crucial to our side, but when they are not there, the best side runs out the next week."
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Malthouse said he would use either Levi Casboult or Robbie Warnock as a back-up for Shaun Hampson in Kreuzer's absence.
Carlton has to regroup after narrow losses to Richmond, Collingwood and Geelong and travel across to Perth to meet West Coast at Patterson's Stadium on Saturday night.
"I am not disappointed in the attitude (of the players) or the effort," Malthouse said.
"I think we let ourselves down in five or seven minutes a quarter, or a half, and that's what happened.
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"That's been the pattern over three games. We have allowed the opposition to take a firm hold of those vital minutes.
"I think good sides last longer. They (Geelong) are a very good football side."
But he insisted the Blues were on the improve: "We will get better because of it."
"I wouldn't say it was not enough pressure - I would say (it was) not enough technique."
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