SEN’s Garry Lyon wants answers from Collingwood over their handling of Darcy Moore’s injury in their Round 3 win over GWS.

Moore suffered the injury just before quarter-time of the match with a hamstring issue before undergoing a fitness test in the rooms and on the boundary.

After returning to the ground to play out the game, Lyon assumed he’d escaped any serious injury despite all signs on the vision pointing towards an obvious hamstring strain.

Once it was revealed post-match that Moore had in fact suffered the injury he suspected as well as inflammation in his knee, Lyon couldn’t understand why Collingwood would risk their captain in such a fashion.

While the incident happened more than a week ago, Lyon wanted to shine a light on it as he believes it went under the radar in the wake of Round 3.

“I am going to go on about Collingwood. I think the Darcy Moore situation last week has gone under the radar a bit,” Lyon said on SEN Breakfast.

“I'm looking at it going, how did that happen? How did Darcy Moore, the captain of Collingwood, who's had a whole summer of soft tissue injuries, how did it happen that he came back on and played?

“I understand they thought he was right, but then he has a clear incident that’s picked up by every camera that’s watching the game. He goes off the ground and does this little kick, and it looks like he’d been shot, he grabbed his hamstring and half hobbles.

“You're sitting there going, ‘Oh well that's just bad luck, he's come back and he's re-hurt his injury’… But then they put him back out on the ground, and you're going, ‘Well it can't be a hamstring, because they've put him back out on the ground again’.

“Then he gets his first kick when he's out on the ground and again does that stiff-legged shuffle kind of thing, stays out on the ground, finishes the game, and then we're told, ‘No, he's done a hamstring, he's going to miss four weeks’.

“How does that happen at a footy club who are historically at the cutting edge? Collingwood, I know their fitness blokes, they're fantastic. I want to know how that happens with a player with a history of soft tissue injuries.

“That's alarm bells ringing everywhere for me.”

One thing that brought the Moore incident back to the front of mind was Nick Daicos’ failed fitness test before the Round 4 loss to Brisbane.

Daicos was pictured trying to get moving ahead of the clash at the Gabba but was clearly hampered by a corked calf which barely allowed him to gather a gallop.

While Lyon credited the Pies for making the right call this time, he can’t understand why they were even considering playing such a key player when he could barely get moving whatsoever.

“Then you have Nick Daicos go up to Brisbane on the back of it,” Lyon said.

“I flicked it on before the bounce and I see Daicos on the ground hobbling around like he’d been shot and I’m thinking, ‘Surely this is not going to happen again’.

“At least in this instance they said, ‘No, you're not playing’. But for an intents and purposes, they were on the verge (of playing him).

“Surely, they had to have a decision on Nick before that. So, your captain and the best player in the competition basically have been put into vulnerable positions.

“You can't argue with Darcy Moore. I just can't work out how that happened.

“Then Nick's running around on Thursday night wondering whether he's going to play … this is what I can’t work out for the life of me.”