Chris Judd is experiencing some tightness in a hamstring. Picture: George Salpigtidis Source: Herald Sun
CARLTON will take a "super cautious" approach with champion midfielder Chris Judd after a tight right hamstring forced him off the training track.
The setback on Friday reinforced Carlton's decision to rest its former skipper from an intraclub practice match on Wednesday, although it hopes Judd will be ready to play in Round 1 of the NAB Cup in Sydney in three weeks.
"It was just some tightness in his right hammy and he felt it coming on so decided to come off the track," Carlton's general manager of football Andrew McKay said yesterday.
"The medicos think he'll be fine. We're just going to be super cautious. We'll see how he pulls up.
"If it doesn't free up in the next couple of days we'll send him off for a scan."
McKay said Judd, 30 this year, would be one of several senior players rested from match simulation on Wednesday, the same day the Blues plan to reveal their new clash jumper.
Carlton's opening NAB Cup involvement is a twilight engagement with the Swans and the Giants at Blacktown on February 24.
The Judd development came as Blues ruckman Matthew Kreuzer said he had learned to listen to his body, and hoped to have put three injury-interrupted seasons behind him.
Knee, hip, foot and muscle injuries have limited Kreuzer to 45 games since 2005, and have reduced his on-field effectiveness.
"You don't want to miss a game if you can, so you've just got to cope with it and find ways around it," he told the club website.
"Some weeks you do this and other weeks you do that, and you work out what works best for you.
"I learnt a lot about how I've got to manage my body, so I'll take a lot of things from last year and put them in place this year.
"It was a tough year, but I took a lot out of it. And it was like that for the whole club because we had a lot of injuries and had to play a few players out of position."
Kreuzer, 23, conceded that injury niggles meant he "wasn't the greatest kick" last season, but hopes that will have been addressed by off-season surgery to repair a meniscus tear in his left knee.
"Last year it was just hard to find time to work on it because I was on a tight schedule as to how much (training) I could do during the week," he said.
"Hopefully this year I won't have any of those problems and I can do every session. If that's what happens, I think my kicking will definitely improve, and everything else will too."
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