{"id":46573,"date":"2024-03-18T08:58:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T08:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/hamstring-surgery-to-sideline-dockers-cox-for-12-weeks\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T08:58:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T08:58:46","slug":"hamstring-surgery-to-sideline-dockers-cox-for-12-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/hamstring-surgery-to-sideline-dockers-cox-for-12-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamstring surgery to sideline Dockers’ Cox for 12 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fremantle are bracing to be without Brennan Cox for at least the next three months with a hamstring injury, amid the brutal toll of their round-one win over the Brisbane Lions.<\/p>\n

Cox, Oscar McDonald (knee) and Karl Worner (concussion) all failed to finish the Dockers’ surprise 23-point victory at Optus Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Versatile tall Cox suffered a serious right hamstring injury as he led for a pass during the final quarter and tumbled to the turf.<\/p>\n

He saw a surgeon on Monday and faces a long road back to action.<\/p>\n

“It looks like he’ll need surgery on that hamstring to be able to repair it,” Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir told Fox Footy on Monday night.<\/p>\n

“I’m not a doctor but it’s somewhere between 12 to 15 weeks, I would imagine.”<\/p>\n

New recruit McDonald went down clutching at his left knee in the dying stages of the third quarter after suffering an ugly hyperextension while landing.<\/p>\n

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“He’s got a little bit going on in that knee,” Longmuir said.<\/p>\n

“I’m not going to say what it could be, because it could be a number of things at the moment. I’ve got my fingers and toes crossed for him.<\/p>\n

“It was his first game at the club and he was playing a really important role for us and has had a super pre-season. Hopefully we get a better result there.”<\/p>\n

Worner was taken off the ground on a stretcher during the third quarter after copping a sickening incidental hit to the head while trying to mark a ball.<\/p>\n

“He’ll enter the concussion protocols and we’ll take it day by day with him and see how long it takes,” Longmuir said.<\/p>\n

“We all know that concussion is a tricky one so we’ll take it easy on him for the first few days and see how he responds.”<\/p>\n

Brisbane also suffered blows in the same game but are yet to confirm the extent of Darcy Gardiner’s suspected posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) injury and Conor McKenna’s hamstring issue.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Essendon coach Brad Scott confirmed he will have to make three forced changes to his team for Saturday night’s clash with unbeaten Sydney, revealing Matt Guelfi will miss with a calf injury.<\/p>\n

“Doctors tell me it’s minor but it’s major enough to miss,” Scott told Fox Footy on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Guelfi joins key defender Zach Reid (hamstring strain) on the sidelines after last Saturday’s 24-point win over Hawthorn, while the Bombers have accepted Mason Redman’s one-match ban for striking Hawk Jai Newcombe.<\/p>\n

Highly-rated Reid was the 10th overall pick at the 2020 draft but has managed just nine senior games while battling a series of injuries.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been ultra conservative with him (throughout his career) and he’s got a minor hamstring,” Scott said.<\/p>\n

“It’s not serious but for Reidy at the moment our view is there’s no such thing as a minor hamstring for him.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got to be really, really patient with him and it’s really frustrating.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fremantle are bracing to be without Brennan Cox for at least the next three months with a hamstring injury, amid the brutal toll of their round-one win over the Brisbane Lions. Cox, Oscar McDonald (knee) and Karl Worner (concussion) all failed to finish the Dockers’ surprise 23-point victory at Optus Stadium on Sunday. Versatile tall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}