A star West Coast defender is doubtful for the Eagles’ bottom-of-the-table bout with Hawthorn because the already injury-ravaged membership is struck by sickness.
There are rising doubts about co-vice-captain Tom Barrass’ availability for the sport in Tasmania after he did not fly with the workforce on Friday.
Luke Edwards was an official out earlier than the workforce flew, with the membership taking each precaution to keep away from an sickness operating via the depleted ranks.
Players, together with Oscar Allen and interim captain Liam Duggan, wore masks via Perth airport earlier than boarding their flight.
West Coast took an prolonged squad of 27 gamers to Launceston as a part of precautions.
“I think everyone knows someone who’s got COVID at the moment, so we’re not immune to that,” coach Adam Simpson stated.
“We’re doing everything we can to protect ourselves with it. We’ve had some players get it and come through, and not on our senior side.
“We lost Luke Edwards, but it wasn’t COVID. It was a general illness, so the flu is just as powerful at the moment. We’ll take a bit more precaution with our day-to-day activities and the flight and the plane and the airport and all that sort of stuff and take a bigger contingency this week just in case because it’s not easy to travel emergencies to Launceston.”
Barrass is but to overlook a recreation in 2023, simply one in every of 10 gamers to take action.
Youngsters Noah Long and Campbell Chesser have been introduced again into the workforce after recovering from harm, with Jack Darling breaking his arm in opposition to Gold Coast and Greg Clark omitted.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
