{"id":947865,"date":"2026-10-31T18:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947865\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:20:16","slug":"huge-concern-for-west-coast-eagles-aflw-star-ella-roberts-after-mid-game-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947865\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge concern for West Coast Eagles&#8217; AFLW star Ella Roberts after mid-game knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Updated\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Ella Roberts left the field in the hands of medical staff during the opening minutes on Saturday&#8217;s game\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Ella Roberts leaves the field in the hands of trainers during round 12, 2026. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WEST Coast will sweat on scans for superstar midfielder Ella Roberts after she suffered what appeared to be a serious knee injury in the opening minutes of Saturday night&#8217;s loss to Hawthorn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roberts planted her right leg to change direction and went down immediately in pain, requiring the help of trainers to leave the ground in a significant blow to the Eagles hopes in what turned into a 55-point defeat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EAGLES V HAWKS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/aflw\/matches\/8982\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full match details and stats<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 21-year-old, who is among the most talented players in the game, took no further part in the match, with the Eagles confirming she had suffered a knee injury as they now wait on scans to determine the exact nature of the setback.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We won&#8217;t know [the extent] until we get it scanned,&#8221; coach Daisy Pearce said post-match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It was serious enough that she didn&#8217;t go back out there, but we&#8217;ll just wait on results and hope for the best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Her attitude on the bench was outstanding and the way she carried herself through the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;She&#8217;s a competitor, and she would have hated watching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roberts has won the Eagles&#8217; AFLW club champion award in each of the past two seasons and is the leading contender to take out the award in 2026 after another strong season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has averaged 23.5 disposals and led the Eagles for tackles (6.4), clearances (5.5), contested possessions (13.2) and inside 50s (4.2), ranking second for score involvements. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saturday night&#8217;s clash was the Eagles&#8217; last game of the season, with the team failing to qualify for AFLW finals after a 4-8 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 55-point defeat was a disappointing way to close the year, with Hawthorn kicking its highest ever AFLW score and landing five unanswered goals in both the second and fourth quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Ella Roberts left the field in the hands of medical staff during the opening minutes on Saturday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":["post-947865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947865","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=947865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}