Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir is hopeful Brennan Cox is match to play Adelaide in subsequent Friday’s pre-season match after revealing the weird method he obtained injured.
The necessary key defender was lacking from Saturday’s intra-club match at Cockburn and gained’t play within the subsequent conflict on Friday after hurting his knee skateboarding over the pre-season.
Longmuir mentioned Cox’s knee turned contaminated following the stack and had taken some time longer to heal than first thought.
“We think the Adelaide game he’ll play,” Longmuir mentioned.
“It’s one of those things, the infection looks like it’s cleared up on top of the swelling and it’s just about making sure we don’t put him out there too early and put him at risk at injuring another part of his body.
“It happened outside, he had a skateboarding incident which is not ideal but it wasn’t serious, and the scab got infected and left him in the situation that he’s in so it’s something we could’ve stopped.”
Young winger Nathan O’Driscoll has been sidelined with a scorching spot in his foot however Longmuir is assured he gained’t miss an excessive amount of longer.
“Driz has got a little hot spot in his foot, it’s different to the one he had last year,” Longmuir mentioned.
“It looks like, touch wood, we’ve got it really early thanks to some good reporting and awareness from Driz so it might keep him out another week.”
Longmuir felt the Dockers have been “in a good spot” from an injury-list viewpoint.
“We’re in a good spot,” Longmuir mentioned.
“You never like to get too far ahead of yourself because we’re still a month away from round one, but we’re in a good spot.
“Some of the guys that missed last chunks of last pre-season have done a lot of work, two being Fyfey (Nat Fyfe) and Tabs (Matt Taberner) that probably stand out.
“It’s so far, so good, but we’ve still got some important fitness work to get in before round one so hopefully we can maintain that healthy list.”
Draftee Tom Emmett (ankle) is monitoring properly to play managed minutes on Friday after coaching strongly with the non-contact crimson cap on Tuesday, whereas mature-aged pick-up Corey Wagner (hamstring) additionally regarded good on the monitor as he closes in on a return.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
