Jaeger O’Meara suffers apparent ankle injury just eight days out from Fremantle Dockers’ season opener

Fremantle recruit Jaeger O’Meara feels no authoritativeness to face St Kilda at Marvel Stadium abutting Sunday afterwards awkward off the clue with a doubtable abate injury.

The above Hawthorn and Gold Coast midfielder, who had been adequate a able first pre-season at Cockburn, looked in ache afterwards an banal accident all through a handball drill.

O’Meara anon got banal anytime beefcake on his larboard abate by a trainer afore calculating jogging off the ground.

The 29-year-old was once off for many mins and came alternate on for anytime break banal about didn’t attending 100 per cent and will be one to watch all through the week advanced of his hopeful Fremantle admission afterwards arriving above from the Hawks in a last-minute barter aeon deal.

It comes a few days afterwards the new administration aggregation affiliate answered he acquainted in a “really acceptable spot” physically.

“I’m in a really acceptable atom with my body,” O’Meara said.

“I’ve been able to do the majority of the sessions over the accomplished pre-season, I’ve formed really adamantine and I’ve put myself in a fairly acceptable position to have a acceptable year.”

If O’Meara doesn’t get up, it could accessible the aperture for uncapped midfielder Matthew Johnson’s long-awaited admission afterwards a big summer, with adolescent second-year aptitude Neil Erasmus addition option.

He wasn’t the alone harm alarm advanced of annular one with basic apostle Brennan Cox abrogation the Saturday afternoon affair aboriginal avaricious at his larboard hip.

He did assorted active tests beneath the alert eye of a medical staffer abroad from the egg-shaped afore run-throughs out in the middle.

Cox has endured an disconnected pre-season afterwards a skateboarding blow saw his knee become infected.

Fellow apostle Luke Ryan looked a bit proppy at times about accomplished with the capital aggregation the accomplished affair as he pushes for a acknowledgment from alternate soreness.

Veteran advanced Michael Walters spent many of the affair alongside adolescent alpine Max Knobel, trying out out his abscessed Achilles with assorted active and jumping drills.

Walters abutting the blow of his teammates backward and appeared to be sprinting abutting to abounding clip in a conclusive assurance for his hopes of adverse the Saints.

Fellow advanced Michael Frederick accomplished acerb and looks a actual acceptable adventitious of authoritative his acknowledgment from a cloister harm in the time opener afterwards missing the two pre-season blemish matches and 2nd intraclub.

Fremantle footy bang-up Peter Bell answered beforehand in the week which he was once hopeful Frederick, Ryan, Luke Jackson (concussion) and Walters would be available.

Bell conceded 32-year-old Walters was once the least acceptable of the quartet to advanced up.

Classy left-footer Sam Sturt, who played the aftermost of his four AFL amateur alternate in annular four, 2021, could be the almsman if Walters isn’t fit to play.

The above first-round abstract aces has afflicted in a admixture of advanced and addition over the summer.

Fremantle’s WAFL accessory Peel Thunder had an intraclub hit-out in Mandurah on Saturday morning with a brace of Dockers-listed players, raw alpine Roy Benning and accelerated draftee Conrad Williams, demography part.

As many as 16 Fremantle players could be accessible for the Thunder’s pre-season battle adjoin Subiaco at Lane Group Stadium on Saturday in a conclusive assurance of the depth.