Adelaide’s emerging midfielder Brad Crouch has injured a hamstring and won’t play against Carlton on Saturday.

The 19-year-old Crouch suffered the injury late during Adelaide’s training session on Wednesday.

“That is a bit of a setback for us. I really liked how he had been playing – he has been great for a first-year player,” Crows coach Brenton Sanderson told reporters.

“It doesn’t look too bad but it’s hard to know until he has scans … it might be two weeks (out).”

Crouch has impressed since making his debut in round two this year, but Adelaide have a ready replacement for their MCG fixture against Carlton in 2007 club champion Bernie Vince.

Vince was dropped last week but performed strongly in the SANFL.

“He is too good a player to be in the SANFL … I really do like Bernie as a player,” Sanderson said.

“It wasn’t that he had to learn a lesson. He just had to go back and find some form and touch and he did that.”

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