Stuart Waitley

How are you this morning?

I'm good.

Yeah.

I'm good.

So what do you know about Maynard?

I know that he had a right shoulder operation at the end of 2023 when he dislocated it late in the season.

So this is unstable in the first place and that they will consider that again.

So that's an option for him again to go under the knife and then miss the rest of the season.

The reality is if he continues to play, this will continue to happen.

He'll have it popped out once, twice, three times a week potentially.

And then he'll have to deal with the pain as well.

So that's the situation facing Collingwood and Brayden Maynard.

Okay.

We've been getting messages constantly throughout the morning asking about Brodie Majercek, and everyone's been very respectful and careful here.

So how do you want to approach what's happening?

So I'll be as respectful and careful as I can be.

Melbourne is concerned that there is some sort of break in the neck.

Now, everyone will leap to the worst possible conclusion from that.

It is possible to break your neck and not –

be a paraplegic or a quadriplegic, and The Age reported last night that he was sitting up in his hospital bed asking to listen to the rest of the King's birthday clash, that he was moving his arms and his legs.