Coach Shane Snibson said wrist surgery had brought the curtain down on Goodes’ season.

He said Goodes had had a scaphoid pinned on Thursday.

It has been a frustrating year for him, his second with Sebastopol.

The forrmer Western Bulldogs player missed the early part of the season with a calf injury.

Goodes made his first appearance for the Burra in round six and bows out after being part of its first win against Melton South.

He is one of two important losses for Sebastopol’s clash with Darley at Darley Park on Saturday, with young forward Lochie Huppatz being called up to play with North Ballarat Roosters in the VFL.

The BFL season is also over for Ballarat Swans’ Grant Baldwin after just two senior appearances.

Coach Shane Hutchinson has confirmed that Baldwin has damaged an anterior cruciate ligament and will require a total knee reconstruction.

He said initial hopes were that Baldwin had escaped serious injury, but scans revealed the worse case scenario.

This will mean the best part of a year on the sidelines.

Baldwin has only just resumed his playing career, having signed with Ballarat at the start of the season after spending the past six years as a Cricket Australia teams’ masseuse, a position he still holds.

Hutchinson said the Swans had been looking forward to have the seasoned Baldwin continue to progress for the rest of the season and then make a substantial mark next year.

While the outcomes for Goodes and Baldwin have not been good, North Ballarat City key defender Ryan Hobbs is on the brink of making an unlikely return.

Hobbs has had a stop-start season, being restricted to just four games for City and not playing since round seven, after which he had minor surgery to clean up a knee.

North Ballarat coach Jordyn Burke originally thought that signalled the end of the season for Hobb.

Burke said Hobbs had recovered much quicker than expected.

Unfortunately for City, mercurial forward Derick Micallef is not expected to play again this year.

Sidelined by a hamstring problem, Micallef has also played only four games – in which he kicked 10 goals.

He has not been sighted since round five.

Redan veterans Orren Stephenson (hamstring) and Brendan Peace (hamstring) remain on the sidelines, but the Lions are hopeful of regaining them in the next few weeks.