\n Scans have confirmed an adductor strain for Hayden Young\n <\/p>\n
Hayden Young after the round 21 match between Fremantle and Carlton at Optus Stadium, August 3, 2025. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n
FREMANTLE midfield gun Hayden Young’s season is in jeopardy after scans revealed he suffered an adductor strain in Sunday’s win over Carlton at Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n
While no timeline has been set for his return, the club confirmed Young will miss at least Saturday night’s clash with Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old was subbed out of the game at quarter-time against the Blues in just his third game back from hamstring surgery.<\/p>\n
Young came from the ground 20 minutes into the first quarter and appeared in pain as physios assessed his groin, with the 24-year-old attempting some run throughs at quarter-time, however he was unable to return.<\/p>\n
“We were hoping to get a bit of continuity with him, so touch wood it’s not too bad. It doesn’t look very serious. He just couldn’t get going,” Longmuir said post-match<\/p>\n
“I think today’s injury was just a bit unlucky and a bit more of a twisting action. But when you miss as much work as he did over pre-season, and he’s had repeat hammies, it puts you at serious risk when you come back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, he hasn’t been able to buffer that stage that you need to regain full fitness, but also the resilience in his body.”<\/p>\n
Young had an interrupted pre-season after a fractured leg in the final game of 2024 and a pre-Christmas knock to the same area, then suffering back-to-back hamstring injuries in February. He went under the knife for a third hamstring injury in May.<\/p>\n
Dual Brownlow medallist Nat Fyfe could receive the SOS call to replace Young, despite missing most of the season after damaging his hamstring soon after returning from knee surgery.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old made his belated return in round 12, before injuring his calf just three matches later while warming up at half-time as the sub.<\/p>\n
Fyfe’s latest bid to return to the side began on Saturday when he racked up 27 disposals, six tackles and five clearances while playing for Peel Thunder in the WAFL.<\/p>\n
That huge display came despite him being rested for the entire final quarter, with Fyfe now a chance to return for the clash with Port.<\/p>\n
Fremantle has surged into premiership contention after winning 10 of its past 11 games.<\/p>\n
The Dockers sit in fifth spot on the ladder, only percentage behind Geelong in fourth, with games against the Power, Brisbane and the Western Bulldogs in the run home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scans have confirmed an adductor strain for Hayden Young Hayden Young after the round 21 match between Fremantle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-42580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}