The Dees have a little crisis to deal with following Christian Petracca’s injury on King’s Birthday against Collingwood.
Petracca is still hospitalised after four broken ribs and a lacerated spleen in a marking contest with Darcy Moore late in the first term of the Dees’ loss.
On Footy Talk with Abbey Holmes, Brown took us inside the four walls of the Dees – how Petracca’s holding up and how the Dees plan to replace a player that hasn’t missed a game in six years.
“Yeah, let’s not beat around the bush,” he began.
“We’re going to have a hole to plug…”
BEN BROWN TALKS CHRISTIAN PETRACCA:
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