The Western Bulldogs’ season from hell seems to have reached an all-time low this week with a bucketload of injuries coming out of their 57-point loss to Port Adelaide on Thursday night.
Just 18 months ago everyone associated with the club was lying in the summer sun, basking in the glory of the Bulldogs’ second-ever premiership win, but just a year and a half later they sit in 14th spot and on a run of four losses.
Adding injury to insult they limped out of Adelaide with concerns on a number of their most important players.
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Western Bulldogs football director Chris Grant gave an update on the carnage.
“Easton (Wood), as you would have seen, it’s a fairly significant hamstring injury,” Grant told SEN Mornings on Friday.
“He is going to miss a number of weeks for sure.”
.@westernbulldogs captain Easton Wood has come from the ground after injuring his hamstring.
— AFL (@AFL) June 14, 2018
Injury update thanks to @MLC_Australia. #AFLPowerDogs pic.twitter.com/La09CfhJKA
“Jackson Macrae also had his hamstring issue. It’s not major at all,” Grant said of the Bulldogs most improved player.
“He was saying at half-time he certainly had some awareness there, we kind of called it grade one. How much time he misses is still to be determined, but it certainly won’t be the length of Easton.
“We had a couple other boys who hurt some fingers in Tom Boyd and Lukas Webb. Both will require some surgery.
“With Tom Boyd, it’s a compound dislocation of his finger.
“Lukas has got a fracture to his thumb and it’s going to require some surgery. We think Lukas will miss at least a few weeks of footy.”
The Dogs did get some good news with superstar Marcus Bontempelli declared to be OK after leaving the ground with what appeared to be a knee injury, but returning to the game later on.
Marcus Bontempelli is back on the ground after an initial injury scare - here's the incident.
— AFL (@AFL) June 14, 2018
Injury update thanks to @MLC_Australia. #AFLPowerDogs pic.twitter.com/53kJ7bUXux
Life doesn’t get any easier for the Bulldogs with the next six rounds being against finals contenders North Melbourne, Geelong, Hawthorn, Melbourne, West Coast and Port Adelaide again.