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Battered Dockers suffer four injuries in Bulldogs loss

2021-06-07T06:58+10:00

Fremantle gave their all against the Western Bulldogs on Sunday night and it might have cost them four players.

Captain Nathan Fyfe suffered a dislocated shoulder in the fourth quarter in a marking contest.

The incident came moments after the cameras cut to Sean Darcy on the bench with a hamstring injury.

In the same passage of play, defender Brennan Cox went down with what looked to be a very serious hamstring injury of his own.

Fellow defender Griffin Logue was already subbed out with a concussion following a courageous marking contest with Aaron Naughton.

If that wasn’t enough, Mitch Crowden came from the ground with a shoulder issue in the dying stages of the 28-point loss.

Not to mention key forward Matt Taberner was a late withdrawal after not feeling “100 per cent comfortable” on a previously hurt ankle, according to Dockers coach Justin Longmuir.

Longmuir gave an update on their battered players after the game.

On Fyfe: "He’s going to have to get it scanned. I think it’s positive that it popped back in on the field … I can’t put a timeframe on it."

On Cox: "It doesn’t look positive at this stage unfortunately. We’ll get it scanned, but it looks high-grade."

Defender Nathan Wilson will likely front the MRO for a strike to the groin of Bulldog Cody Weightman.

The Dockers host Gold Coast next Saturday afternoon.

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