Premiership ruckman and Ballarat boy Jordan Roughead is still working through a hamstring complaint and looks to be at least a couple of weeks away from an AFL return.
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Roughead is no longer listed on the official injury list, but Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge said Roughead did not play at any level of football this weekend due to a “slight” hamstring complaint.
Returning big men Jackson Trengove and Tom Campbell both played in Footscray’s one-point VFL win on Saturday night.
Trengove gathered 20 possessions while Campbell chimed in with a goal – neither were named in the best.
Beveridge said its ruck configuration is something that will come under consideration during the week after it was beaten 65-19 in the hit-outs, Suns ruckman Jarrod Witts (58 hit-outs) dominating against Tom Boyd and Tim English.
Beveridge paid credit to 190cm utility Josh Dunkley who stepped into the ruck to give the Bulldogs a different look around the stoppage.
“His influence around the footy...he started to surge the ball and competed really hard,” Beveridge said.
“We didn’t have a great day in there, Witts was too dominant, we’ll need to consider that this week, we can’t give up that advantage like we did today.
“We’ve been challenged there, but I thought we were really compromised there in the first two and a bit quarters, so we went with something a little bit more obscure and it ended up working for us.”