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The Swans have confirmed that Gulden is set to undergo surgery on his dislocated shoulder later this week, which will sideline him for around four months. <\/p>\n
While that timeline could have Gulden tracking to return ahead of the finals, it\u2019s a mega blow to Dean Cox\u2019s side in a year that it\u2019s gone chips in on contending with the addition of Charlie Curnow.<\/p>\n
\u201cSydney Swans midfielder Errol Gulden sustained a dislocated shoulder on Saturday night against Brisbane,\u201d the Swans said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cGulden will have surgery later this week. He is expected to be unavailable for approximately four months of football.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cox reacts to Injury scare on star duo | 10:44<\/p>\n
It marks consecutive years of injury disaster for the 23-year-old, who missed the first half of the 2025 season with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n
Gulden injured his shoulder in Saturday night\u2019s win over Brisbane, while Isaac Heeney also picked up a hamstring injury, though the severity is still to be determined.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019ll be what it will be, unfortunately, so hopefully it is quick. If it is longer than normal, then so be it as well,\u201d Cox said of Gulden post-match.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to make sure we do whatever we can to get him right as quickly as we can, which might be Monday, Tuesday, it might be a little bit longer. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll wait for that and then work our way through it from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Swans will try to improve to 3-0 when they visit Hawthorn at the MCG on Thursday night. <\/p>\n
YOUNG SAINT TO MAKE SHOCK COIN<\/p>\n
St Kilda midfielder Mattaes Phillipou is set to earn an eyebrow-raising figure throughout his new deal. <\/p>\n
Phillipou, who signed a two-year contract extension last season, is set to make seven figures in each of those two seasons, per Tom Morris. <\/p>\n
The 21-year-old played just 44 games across his first three years in the league since arriving at Moorabbin as the No.10 pick in 2022. <\/p>\n
\u201cMattaes Phillipou re-signed halfway through last year, extended two years – 2027 and 2028 – my understanding is that extension is around $1 million a year,\u201d Morris told SEN Breakfast on Monday. <\/p>\n
He added: \u201cHe hasn\u2019t quite won over his teammates yet, I\u2019ll give you that much.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a surprising amount for a player who hasn\u2019t averaged better than 14.4 disposals and 0.6 goals per game during his short time in the competition. <\/p>\n
Phillipou sustained a corked quad in St Kilda\u2019s narrow loss to Melbourne on Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n
After a 24-game rookie campaign in 2023, Phillipou managed 13 and seven games respectively in the ensuing seasons due to injury interruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Swans superstar Errol Gulden faces months on the sidelines in a mammoth blow to the ladder-leading side.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1813,63,689,684,3237,1129,12148,2105,269242,43,269244,50759,19972,60457,673,44,677,248048,670,269243,7200,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-543382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ankle-injury","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-cotton","tag-brisbane-lions","tag-charlie-curnow","tag-dean-cox","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gone-chips","tag-headlines","tag-injured-shoulder","tag-injury-disaster","tag-injury-update","tag-mark-metcalfe","tag-new-south-wales","tag-news","tag-oceania","tag-return-timeline","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-superstar","tag-sydney-swans","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543382","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=543382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}