North Melbourne has received some positive news with Majak Daw in line for some ‘adequate’ pre-season action following arthroscopic knee surgery last week.

The Roos were hesitant to put a time frame on Daw’s return to football before the outcome of the operation was known, but Senior Performance Consultant Steve Saunders has now revealed the ruckman may be back training in just a month to six weeks.

“It scanned a little bit worse than we actually found out it was, so we’re looking at a time frame for Maj of sort of returning to full training in around four weeks so we’re really happy with the outcome,” Saunders told NMFC.com.au.

“He was doing a straight line running session last week, [he] had onset of some knee symptoms and he’s had an arthroscope last week just to tidy up a small medial meniscus tear.”

Daw was in good spirits at Arden Street on Monday no doubt relieved the setback was only minor.

“…We are always a little circumspect until we’ve gone in and had a look at the pathology … the pathology turned out to be less than what we saw on the scan so it’s a great outcome,” Saunders added.

“It’s a pretty minor procedure so there’s a little bit of recovery time around that. Most of the time is around making sure that his muscular system is back up to scratch and he’s ready for the loading associated so that’s why we’re sort of talking four weeks rather than two or three.

“Maj will get adequate game-time leading into Round 1.”

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