{"id":71496,"date":"2025-08-16T00:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71496\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T00:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:40:12","slug":"lions-coach-provides-update-on-injured-midfielder-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71496\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions coach provides update on injured midfielder &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/introducing-myteam-your-club-your-news-your-way-166070\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"327\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"my-team-banner promo-article-banner\" id=\"my-team-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ZH-InArticleMyTeamLink.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s legitimate concern for Lions star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/jarrod-berry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrod Berry<\/a>, who appeared to sustain a dislocated shoulder in Brisbane&#8217;s emphatic 57-point win over Fremantle on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Berry hit the turf of Optus Stadium forcefully after being pushed in the back by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/andrew-brayshaw\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Brayshaw<\/a> during the fourth quarter, causing his left shoulder to dislocate from the socket. He would not return to the game.<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane senior coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/coaches\/chris-fagan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Fagan<\/a> confirmed post-game that the injury was &#8220;not ideal&#8221; for the 27-year-old, who registered his 12th 20-plus disposal game for the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know the full extent, obviously there will be scans and stuff like that,&#8221; Fagan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It didn&#8217;t look good but sometimes [the doctors] can find a way to strap them up and get them through the season and have an operation at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not 100% sure on that, but it&#8217;s not ideal. He&#8217;s been one of our better players this year. He&#8217;s a very reliable leader so fingers crossed for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His other shoulder he&#8217;s had operated on, that one has popped out, so now it&#8217;s the other one that&#8217;s popped out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s okay, I had a good chat to him. We&#8217;ll see how it all pans out in the next few days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jarrod Berry left the field after this incident with Andrew Brayshaw.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFLFreoLions?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AFLFreoLions<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZBRhg2ggGb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ZBRhg2ggGb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AFL (@AFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFL\/status\/1956337900217319610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The timing of Berry&#8217;s injury poses issues for Brisbane ahead of their Round 24 clash with Hawthorn, as their midfield depth had already been stretched thin after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/lachie-neale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lachie Neale<\/a> was ruled out of the home-and-away season with a quad injury two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Berry had been tasked with more inside midfield minutes in Neale&#8217;s absence and stepped up to the plate strongly, claiming eight contested possessions before his injury last night. How the Lions now adjust with Berry likely to face a stint on the sidelines will be an interesting watch.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s legitimate concern for Lions star Jarrod Berry, who appeared to sustain a dislocated shoulder in Brisbane&#8217;s emphatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-71496","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71496","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=71496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}