Collingwood star Adam Treloar is battling a mystery injury but is expected to be fit to face his old side Greater Western Sydney on Saturday.

Treloar was a limited participant in Tuesday morning’s training session after going for scans on the undisclosed injury on Monday following the Pies’ loss to Carlton at the weekend.

“He’s less than 100 per cent fit right now but by game time he will be,” Buckley told reporters on Tuesday.

“He’d be in some doubt but we expect him to play.”

Following the Pies’ loss to Carlton, Buckley was criticised after he drew attention to the fact that his team had played three games in 12 days.

But he said it would be remiss of his club’s performance staff not to take the heavy load into account, as they have done with Treloar.

“As I’ve been pilloried for … we did have a brace of games that were pretty tight with not a lot of rest in between,” he said.

“You get to the other side of that and we’re planning to take the early stages of this week just to settle, reset and make sure that we monitor the group.”

Daniel Wells and Henry Schade were rested for the clash against the Blues but Buckley said that both would return for the encounter with the Giants at Spotless Stadium.

His side’s performance against Carlton was in stark contrast to the stunning effort in an upset win against Geelong the week before.

The Pies slipped to a 2-5 record with the latest defeat, which put Buckley’s future under the microscope once again.

“We’ve got some work to do to find our best and prove that we’re a good team because at the moment we’re proving that we’re inconsistent,” the coach said.

“Every game is a must, we need to win games of footy, but that’s the outcome – we need to execute our roles man by man.

“It’s something that we’ve proven that we can do. We keep educating and we keep learning and we’ve got to keep taking that tack.

“It’s not a matter of just try harder, it’s actually play smarter and be more engaged in every moment in the game.”