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Foot injury addin’ to Warriors’ woes

David Long

Addin Fonua Blake could have played his last game for the Warriors this season, if fears that he has a lisfranc foot injury are proved correct.

The Warriors powerful prop, who has been the club’s best player this season, came off towards the end of yesterday’s 24-18 loss to the Dragons.

Warriors coach Nathan Brown said at the post-match press conference that it looked like a lisfranc injury. If that proves to be the case, he may not be back again this season.

A lisfranc injury is where one or more of the metatarsal bones are displaced from the tarsus and it can take between three and six months to recover from.

It was an injury Ben MurdochMasila picked up last season and it wasn’t until a few games into the current campaign that Brown was confident he’d be able to have a decent run.

‘‘Not sure on Addin’s foot at the moment, but there’s a possibility of it being a lisfranc maybe, which is not great news if that’s the case,’’ Brown said of

Fonua-Blake, who will have medical tests tomorrow, with the team heading back to Brisbane.

Coming off the back of Matt Lodge leaving the Warriors last week, because he no longer wanted to be part of the team, it’s another blow for the club.

The Warriors hope to complete the signing of former Raider Dunamis Lui tomorrow, with the 32-year-old former Queensland State of Origin player linking up with the club for the remainder of the season.

As for the loss to the Dragons, Brown said the result could have gone either way.

‘‘It was four tries apiece and it was probably a 50/50 game,’’ he said. ‘‘I’m not sure if they were any better than us, or we were better than them. It was a tight game and unfortunately we could have kicked a couple more goals, but it didn’t happen. It was a pretty tight contest.’’

This wasn’t a game where the Warriors went through a period of playing abysmal footy, which had been the case in recent weeks, but Brown said they lost it by letting in soft tries.

‘‘We have those moments unfortunately,’’ he said. ‘‘We had a lot of people do a lot of good things. It was probably the best our ruck defence has been all year. We worked hard and we had some blokes who played some terrific footy. But we also had two or three players who made some bad choices and had bad moments and we gifted them a couple of tries far too easily.’’

After Dallin Watene-Zelezniak scored a stunning solo try, in what was his best game so far in a Warriors jersey, they failed to score again. They spent the last five minutes camped on their goal-line, but Brown said they should have done enough by then to have already won the game. ‘‘Four tries should be enough to win,’’ he said.

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