Joe Daniher marks during an Essendon training session at Windy Hill. Source: Getty Images
ESSENDON coach James Hird says prized father-son recruit Joe Daniher is ready to play AFL football.
But with forward Stewart Crameri set to return from a knee injury, Hird gave the strongest indication yet that Daniher would be kept in cotton wool for at least another week.
Hird said veteran defender Dustin Fletcher would not play and all but conceded that forward Michael Hurley will join him on the sidelines after hurting his ankle against St Kilda last Saturday.
"Michael will try and do a bit of running this morning but I'd be very surprised if he comes up,'' Hird said.
"We hope to have them the week after.''
Scott Gumbleton was a huge presence up forward for the Bombers last week in his first game of the season, kicking four goals against the Saints.
With Crameri coming back in essentially as a replacement for Hurley and the ruck combination of Tom Bellchambers and David Hille fit and firing, the need for Daniher to debut is less than what it might have otherwise been.
Hird denied the Anzac Day stage against Collingwood, with a crowd of 90,000 expected to attend, was too big for the 19-year-old to debut.
And after kicking four goals to be the Essendon VFL team's best player last Saturday, form is not the issue either.
"Joe's definitely ready. If you've seen him play in the last two or three weeks he's very close to playing AFL football,'' Hird said.
"Whether he plays Anzac Day or another game is not the issue, it's whether he'll fit in to the team and in the right way and we'll make that decision later on.''
See the Anzac Day teams as they drop today at SuperFooty
With just five days between the Saints and Magpies matches, recovery has been the aim of the game for Bombers players and coaches this week.
"We had a good session yesterday, a good 45-minute session at training,'' Hird said.
"We got a bit out of that, worked out which guys would be ready to play and which guys wouldn't. We'll announce our team later on today.''
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