{"id":621561,"date":"2026-04-21T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621561\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:43:10","slug":"rnd-7-injury-update-darcy-omeara-sturt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621561\/","title":{"rendered":"RND 7 Injury Update: Darcy, O\u2019Meara, Sturt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Fremantle Director of Performance Adam Beard has given an update on the team\u2019s health ahead of the Len Hall Tribute Game against Carlton\n            <\/p>\n<p>Fremantle Director of Performance Adam Beard has given an update on the team\u2019s health ahead of the Len Hall Tribute Game against Carlton<\/p>\n<p>UNAVAILABLE:<\/p>\n<p>Jaeger O\u2019Meara (face)<\/p>\n<p>We had to wait for the swelling to come down and he\u2019s due for surgery tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking at around about a four-week timeline for Jaeger\u2019s return.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Sturt (knee)<\/p>\n<p>Sam&#8217;s progressing really well (from a knee reconstruction), so it will be around about eight weeks. We&#8217;ll just keep integrating him into football training and we&#8217;ll go from there.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Darcy (calf)<\/p>\n<p>Sean&#8217;s progressing through the concussion protocol, the same as Bailey Banfield.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, he&#8217;s had a relapse of the calf that he had in January, so we&#8217;re just collecting information and should have a timeline for him soon.<\/p>\n<p>TEST:<\/p>\n<p>Bailey Banfield (concussion) <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s progressed really well through the concussion protocols.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s done his incidental contact and passed that and he should be in full main training tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>                                Concussion<\/p>\n<p>                                Test<\/p>\n<p>                                Face<\/p>\n<p>                                4 weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Knee<\/p>\n<p>                                8 weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Calf<\/p>\n<p>                                TBA<\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Concussion\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: Test\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Face\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 4 weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Knee\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 8 weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Calf\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: TBA\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fremantle Director of Performance Adam Beard has given an update on the team\u2019s health ahead of the Len&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-621561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621561","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=621561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}