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Not again ... Daniel Menzel is carted off after injuring his knee in the VFL.
Daniel Menzel's shocking AFL luck now extends to a fourth serious knee injury.
Scans on Monday confirmed that Menzel snapped the LARS graft in his left knee on Saturday during a VFL match.
Geelong will spend this week working out what to do next.
That was Menzel's second match after returning from LARS surgery on the same joint last December.
The most obvious treatment will be a fourth reconstruction, but the Cats say they will look at every possibility.
"Now the trick is we've all got to get our heads together and think about the future for Dan's knee - what's best for his knee,'' Geelong physiotherapist Mike Snelling said on the club website.
"We're going to go through every single possibility we can, leave no stone unturned.
"Hopefully by the end of the week, we've made some pretty clear decisions about what we're going to do.''
Menzel was trying to tackle an opponent on Saturday when he went to ground and immediately clutched his left knee.
"He pivoted on that knee when an opponent tried to get around him,'' Snelling said.
"He felt an immediate `pop' and some pain and was pretty adamant he'd done some damage.''
Before Geelong confirmed the bad news on Monday afternoon, Menzel knew the scan results would not be good.
He told the Geelong Advertiser he was ``shattered that I've possibly done the same thing again''.
"There's not a lot of hope there, so we'll wait and see.''
The 21-year-old has played 21 AFL games and kicked 32 goals since his 2010 senior debut.
The first-round draft pick is arguably the most talented of the group of young players who are making impressive progress at Geelong.
Menzel first suffered an anterior cruciate ligament rupture in his right knee during Geelong's 2011 qualifying final win over Hawthorn.
He then had the same injury in his left knee during his VFL comeback match last season.
Menzel first had a traditional reconstruction on his left knee and then underwent the newer LARS procedure when he hurt the joint again late last year at training.
Before Menzel resumed in the VFL again, coach Chris Scott said earlier this month that the Cats were confident the youngster would eventually overcome his knee problems.
"I'm quite prepared to say this publicly - if at some point he hurts his knee again, we'll just go through the same process and he'll be back, because the medical staff are telling us that there's no reason he can't be,'' Scott said.
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