Injury List - 2017 Season

[bornadog]

Poor Roughie has lost half the season.

[boydogs]

Bulldog Jack Redpath to return from third knee reco

Yesterday's news

Nice scoop BAD

[always right]

Any word on whether Dahlhaus is clear to play?

[divvydan]

From the press conference:

Dunkley - dislocated shoulder, will be out for quite some time.

Stringer - tweaked his knee, will be assessed early in the week.

[Eastdog]

Not more injuries

[bornadog]

Dunkley looking at surgery.

Stringer possible medial ligament - 4 weeks out if it is.

[ratsmac]

Dunkley looking at surgery.

Stringer possible medial ligament - 4 weeks out if it is.

I saw Stringer on channel 7 walking in for scans and he looked very very sore. Fingers crossed its not too bad.

[1eyedog]

I saw Stringer on channel 7 walking in for scans and he looked very very sore. Fingers crossed its not too bad.

Ice him till after the bye

[strebla]

Fair bit of our old victim mentality on here. I thought that would have disappeared after our second premiership.

Reckon media coverage of our club has changed massively for the better.

Not only on here I was forced to leave my seat at half time as the two behind me did nothing but bag us. Really really upsets me I refuse to bag our players constructive critisism aside there is no place for it at our club.

[bornadog]

According to Stevo, Roughie will be playing this weekend against Port Melbourne in the VFL.

That would be amazing news.

[always right]

Sounds like we may have dodged a bullet with Stringer. We're due for a change in luck.

[Axe Man]

Stringer grounded by knee injury

Western Bulldogs forward Jake Stringer has avoided a lengthy stint on the sidelines, with the Club expecting him to miss the next 2-3 matches with a knee injury.

Stringer was injured during the third quarter of last Saturday night’s win over Richmond at Etihad Stadium, with scans later revealing a medial ligament strain.

“Jake was involved in a tackle where his knee got twisted and caught under himself,” said Bulldogs’ Head Physiotherapist Chris Bell.

“The mechanism of that tackle has caused Jake to damage the medial ligament in his knee. We’ll put a framework around Jake from a rehab sense.”

The news isn’t as good for young forward Josh Dunkley, who will need surgery to repair a dislocated shoulder.

“In the final stages of the game on the weekend Josh sustained a full shoulder dislocation,” Bell said.

“We were able to relocate the shoulder in the rooms immediately after the dislocation.

“We found Josh has extensive damage to the shoulder joint. Without surgical reconstruction of the shoulder joint he would have recurrent dislocations.

“We’ve decided to operate on Josh’s shoulder, and we’re optimistic he’s going to return to playing before the end of the home and away season.”

In positive news on the injury front, Jordan Roughead is on the verge of a return from a hamstring injury, with the ruckman on track to play this weekend if he can complete training during the week.

And veterans Travis Cloke and Dale Morris are progressing well with their rehab programs, with the pair set to join in modified training this week, before a return to full training from next week.

[bornadog]

I thought Cloke may return this week.

[Doc26]

The outcome with Jake is so much better than what it looked like when it happened. To grab a win and to now hear that he's only likely to miss 2 to 3 weeks is a great outcome - at the time, was resolving myself to yet another long term knee reco..

Josh's outcome is a bad one. With the brutality of the game shoulder reco's are bad at any stage but particularly disappointing when they occur in a players development years like what happened with Toby after that little Carlton twerp, Buckley, smashed him in the final seconds of a game a couple of years back..

[always right]

Feel sorry for Dunkley however he should be comforted by the fact he played in a premiership in his first year. From a team perspective he is relatively easy to replace at this early stage of his career.