Fremantle and West Coast will hold a “summit” to try and solve the Optus Stadium surface problem, Dockers coach Ross Lyon said this morning.

Fremantle are reeling from the loss of Matt Taberner and Rory Lobb to lower leg stress fractures on top of a fractured ankle to defender Alex Pearce, who suffered his injury at the MCG but under innocuous circumstances.

West Coast have experienced foot or lower leg injuries to Willie Rioli, Tom Barrass, Elliot Yeo and Jamie Cripps over the past 12 months amid concerns that the stadium surface is too hard.

“I think both clubs are going to get together,” Lyon said.

“I think they are going to have a bit of a summit on it and try to work forward. We can only control what we can.

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“We will cease training there in the meantime. We can control the surface here (at Cockburn). We can control footwear and not panic about it and move on.”

Lyon said the Dockers had not “attributed solely” their spate of injuries to the stadium surface but still acknowledged that the need for a solution was “reasonably acute”.

“They will come together and work through it. There is no silver bullet here. If there was, it would have been fired and no-one would be talking about it,” Lyon said.

Camera Icon West Coast and Fremantle will hold a summit to try and solve the Optus Stadium surface issue. Credit: Steve Ferrier

“We can’t attribute it to it solely. When West Coast were having their unfortunate run with Rioli and Barrass and a couple of others, our luck had been holding out.

“All summer we had been trying to manage footwear and training volumes and the threads that we can control.

“I think we acknowledge it starts the year really hard. It is a multi-purpose venue that has concerts, motocross, all sorts of things.

“It has cricket so it has got some challenges coming in. Then it works its way in but when you are an AFL club you are only concerned about your cohort.

“They are working on it.”