JACK Trengove says he isn’t worried that his latest setback will be career threatening.

Trengove, who will miss the rest of the season with a cracked navicular bone in his left foot, was positive and philosophical about his prospects, given it was the second time he has suffered a serious injury to the same foot. 

“No, not at all,” he said, when asked if he felt the injury was career threatening at a media conference at AAMI Park on Wednesday. 

“If that comes about down the track, then so be it, but I don’t see the value in really looking into it at this point, because all I’m worried about is getting back and feeling fit and healthy again.

“If that’s something I have to look at down the track, then so be it, but I’m just all positive at the moment.”

Trengove acknowledged that he had to manage his foot issues since he first hurt it in December 2012.

“It was 15 months or so when it came up the first time and [I] went through the recovery process there and got back to playing footy last year,” he said.

“I was just managing it all along the way. There were constant scans along the way to make sure it was heading in the right direction. The last couple of weeks, it’s just been getting a bit sorer and sorer, as each training session and game goes.

“After the weekend’s game, I figured that I can’t really go on with the way it’s feeling, so we investigated it further and that’s when the crack showed up.”

Trengove said it was “fortunate and unfortunate at the same time” that two of his teammates, Jack Grimes and Colin Garland, had also experienced injured navicular bones.

“Grimesy and Col Garland have both had stuff done to their navicular, so I’ve been keeping in close contact with them to see how they managed it all and what they did in their rehab process.”

“There’s plenty of examples out there of people overcoming them and never having issues with them again, so hopefully I’m one of those cases as well.”

Trengove conceded he was shattered initially, but he added that he wasn’t one to dwell on the negatives. In fact, he said he was “pumped” about getting his rehabilitation under way.

“I’m just looking forward to getting it all behind me and moving forward,” he said.

He also added that he would sit down with the likes of coach Paul Roos, manager of football operations Josh Mahoney and the medical staff to discuss what his next 16 weeks would look like.

“Being a leader around the group, I really want to be around and help out as much as possible. But at the same time, I don’t want to be getting in people’s way. I won’t have much movement, so it’ll be a matter of helping out the boys where I can and playing my role in that aspect,” he said.

“If it means there is an opportunity to go away and freshen up, then I’ll jump at it, if that offer it to me.

“My sister [Jess] is running in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow at the end of July, so if the club was nice enough to let me off for a week to go and see her … I might do that. It’s one of those things that we’ll talk about in the next week or so.”