West Coast are sweating on Jack Darling’s health after the AFL premiership ahead sustained an ankle harm throughout match simulation.
Darling’s left leg was caught beneath teammate Jeremy McGovern in a sort out at Mineral Sources Park on Friday.
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The 30-year-old instantly known as for trainers and was helped off the bottom in ache after kicking three targets within the intra-club hit-out.
West Coast confirmed Darling could be despatched for scans on the injured ankle.
A severe harm for the participant could be a big blow for the Eagles, who’re banking on Darling to guide their ahead line this season within the absence of retired spearhead Josh Kennedy.
Darling kicked 34 targets in 2022, second solely to Kennedy’s 37 for West Coast, and shapes as a major attacking goal alongside Oscar Allen.
Allen, who missed the complete 2022 marketing campaign with a foot harm, confirmed promising indicators throughout Friday’s match simulation as he kicked 4 targets.
West Coast had the competitors’s second-worst assault final yr, averaging simply 65 factors per recreation as they completed 17th in an injury-riddled marketing campaign.
Champion Information statistics confirmed the Eagles had extra gamers miss video games via harm than some other membership in 2022.
