West Coast have despatched midfielders Elliot Yeo and Elijah Hewett for scans on their respective accidents as their listing of unavailable gamers blows out previous 15.
Yeo injured his groin late within the Eagles’ 47-point loss to Geelong on Saturday, whereas Hewett harm his ankle within the opening moments of their 169-point WAFL loss to West Perth.
The pair be part of the likes of Jeremy McGovern, Liam Ryan (each hamstring), Jamie Cripps, Tom Cole (each ankle) in addition to Nic Naitanui (Achilles), Campbell Chesser (knee), Jack Williams (spleen), Dom Sheed (throat), Harry Edwards (fractured wrist) and Isiah Winder (knee) on the harm listing.
West Coast are hopeful Luke Shuey (hamstring), Callum Jamieson (ankle) and Shannon Hurn (rested) shall be out there for choice.
“Yeoy moved into the midfield and he provided some real energy and spark in there,” Eagles soccer boss Gavin Bell mentioned. “Unfortunately, it looks like he’s injured his groin.
“We’ll know more information in the next couple of days, we’ll get some scans done on that and the medical team will get to work.
“Elijah, first centre bounce basically, slipped over and did his ankle. He didn’t take any further part in the game, which left us low on numbers.
“We also lost another WAFL player in the first couple of minutes, Harry Creasey, as well so our WAFL team was down to 20 players early in the game, which made it really difficult.
“With Elijah, he’s gone off and had some x-rays. We’ll get further scans and further advice on the best progression forward for Elijah.”
Meanwhile, Bell defended the membership’s WAFL program regardless of copping the equal eleventh largest defeat within the competitors’s historical past.
“Of our six guys that played, two of them are 18-year-olds, three were 19-year-olds and one was 20, so they were the youth of our list playing in that team,” Bell mentioned.
“It’s going to be an ongoing challenge for us as they are greatly affected by our AFL player availability and the concessions that are made for us as a group it makes it difficult when we strike the adversity that we’re in at the moment.
“The WAFL program is all about helping prepare our younger guys and those guys returning from injury or out of form, getting them ready to play AFL football again.
“We saw in the pre-season that we were highly competitive and won games in that phase when we had really good player availability at that level.
“As soon as that aspect changed for us it puts a lot of pressure on our WAFL-listed players and our kids.
“We understand what’s happening at the WAFL level. We don’t like losing like we did but we also have full context of what’s going on.
“Rob (Wiley) and Steve (Trewhella) and all the guys involved in our WAFL program have our full support, because it’s something that we really value and we want to make sure we’re a highly-competitive team.”
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