{"id":615839,"date":"2026-04-18T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615839\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:44:13","slug":"sam-darcy-liberatore-odonnell-lobb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615839\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Darcy, Liberatore, O&#8217;Donnell, Lobb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Injury News\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Scans reveal nature of injuries to Bulldogs quartet.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Western Bulldogs forward Sam Darcy will miss the remainder of the 2026 season after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>Darcy underwent scans on Saturday following an incident during the second quarter of Friday night&#8217;s game against Geelong at GMHBA Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly disappointed for Sam after scans confirmed he has ruptured his ACL,\u201d Bulldogs Head of Sports Medicine Chris Bell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s an extremely driven individual and we have no doubt he\u2019ll attack his rehabilitation strongly in the coming months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tom Liberatore suffered a concussion during the second quarter and will be assessed within the AFL concussion protocols.<\/p>\n<p>Scans have confirmed a hamstring injury for James O\u2019Donnell. His return to play plan will become clearer in coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Rory Lobb has been cleared of any serious injury to his hamstring and will be assessed early in the week to gauge his availability for Thursday&#8217;s game against Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injury News Scans reveal nature of injuries to Bulldogs quartet. Western Bulldogs forward Sam Darcy will miss the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-615839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615839","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=615839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}