Crows midfielder Ben Keays and forward Lachlan Murphy are expected to be ready for the start of pre-season training after undergoing off-season surgery.

Keays had minor surgery to repair his AC Joint this week while Murphy will have foot surgery after playing through discomfort this year.

“Keaysy had been battling with the shoulder the last three or four weeks of the season and the decision was made to have it repaired,” High Performance Manager Darren Burgess said.

“He’s only going to be unable to run for three or four weeks so it won’t have a big impact on his preparation for pre-season.

“And Murph is having surgery to tidy up a foot issue he’s been playing with and it will have very little impact on his pre-season.”

Andrew McPherson, Luke Brown and Rory Sloane are making steady progress in their recovery from their respective knee injuries.

“Sloaney is on schedule to be running throughout the off-season and attack the start of pre-season,” Burgess said.

“And Andrew McPherson is fine, we don’t expect him to have any issues with returning to full training when the rest of the team does and the same with Luke Brown.”

Josh Rachele has resumed running as part of his hip rehabilitation and is expected to complete a full off-season program, while Paul Seedsman is continuing to monitor concussion-related symptoms ahead of his return to training.