Cameron Giles Biography

Carlton delist four players including Matthew Watson and Cameron Giles as well as rookies Blaine Johnson and Fraser Russell.

“Each of these players has made a contribution to our football club and I would like to thank them for their hard work over the journey,” Blues football operations manager Andrew McKay said.

After 14 months on the sidelines, eight months straight in a moonboot and 27 weeks on crutches, second-year defender Cameron Giles is set to return to Carlton's main training group at the end of next week.

If his right navicular continues to stand up as his training loads are increased, Giles is on track to return to the field with the Northern Blues by the end of July.

Giles says he did not realise how serious his injury was when it was first diagnosed, but quickly became intimately familiar with the perils of navicular stress fractures.

"When I found out I had to have surgery again it was the lowest point," Giles said.

"I asked the doc, 'What's the (recovery) time frame going to be like, how far is this going to put me back?'

"I had contract stuff and all sorts of things going through my head. I was pretty stressed out.

"It's been pretty frustrating that I haven't been able to show people what I can do, but now I've just accepted it.

"All I can do is get my foot right and hopefully just get back and play the last five or six games, show a bit and see what happens."

Cameron Giles has not worn a shoe on his right foot for eight months and has already been ruled out of the majority of the 2015 season, but the young Carlton defender is staying positive.

Giles is documenting his recovery from this latest bout of surgery on new social media platform, Incogo.

"Crutches officially gone as of today. Will be walking around in the moon boot for another two-three weeks, where I will gradually move into wearing a right shoe again," Giles said.

"In my case, the indications are that the injury will be fixed, so it's more a case of being spot-on with the rehab."