Corey Yeo to miss 2016 season

Star Claremont midfielder Corey Yeo will miss the entire 2016 season after damaging his right knee at training.

The 24-year-old Yeo simply felt his knee “go” while he was standing in the goalsquare during a match simulation drill in the final minutes of an impressive two-hour training session at McGillivray Oval last Wednesday night.

He had ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee
and will undergo surgery this week for a complete knee reconstruction.

This is terrible news for the outstanding midfielder and for
the club. Everyone at the Claremont Football Club
wishes him a speedy recovery which will enable him to resume training next summer in preparation for the 2017 season.

Before Yeo’s knee gave way he had trained with typical enthusiasm and dash and there was no indication that anything was amiss. He crashed to the ground even before he had started to make a contest in the goalsquare. There was no physical contact or any twisting or turning.

Yeo has been a shining light from the moment he joined Claremont before the 2015 season. He started his career with the Tigers by playing in the reserves side for the first two matches in 2015 and then appeared in the rest of the club’s 18 league matches.

So well did he perform that he finished sixth behind Luke Blackwell, Ryan Neates, Mark Seaby, Brandon Franz and Andrew Foster in the voting for the E. B. Cook Medal for the club’s fairest-and-best award.
Yeo missed three matches at the start of the 2015 season when he was suffering from vertigo. He threw off the effects of that ailment to develop into a star performer and played in 18 of the club’s 21 matches, finishing third behind Matt Davies and Franz in the Cook Medal.