Fremantle forward Michael Walters had strained posterior cruciate against Hawthorn Michael Walters was among the sore Dockers on Grand Final day. FREMANTLE forward Michael Walters played in the Dockers' Grand Final defeat this year with a bad knee injury. Walters, 22, was nursing a strained posterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. An All-Australian candidate as a small forward this year with 40 goals in the home-and-away season, it has been revealed Walters was heavily restricted in his sprinting and ability to turn tightly around the Dockers goalmouth throughout the finals series. And it has emerged some six weeks after the agonising 15-point loss to Hawthorn that Walters and key defenders Michael Johnson and Luke McPharlin would not have played if the big occasion had not been a grand final. Johnson and McPharlin both required pain killers to get through light training loads in the days leading into the title playoff and then to take their places in Fremantle's defensive division. Hospital cuts to hit kids EXCLUSIVE: EMERGENCY helicopter cases will have to bypass the new Monash Children's Hospital after the State Government cut plans for a helipad. Typhoon death toll rises to 1200 WITH the death toll from Super Typhoon Haiyan rising to 1200 in the Philippines, neighbouring Vietnam is bracing itself for the storm's next landfall. They have all recovered and are on course to resume full training when the Dockers go into summer work early next month. Walters, 22, has continued with a heavy running and gymnasium training schedule, learning a valuable experience from the horrors of last summer when he was banished back to his WAFL club Swan Districts overweight out badly out of condition. His damaged knee ligament did not require surgery before he resumed full running and training. Walters was most limited in his first final of the September campaign when Fremantle upset Geelong at Simonds Stadium. Fremantle coach Ross Lyon and Walters walk off the MCG after the grand final loss to the Hawks. He strained the PCL in Fremantle's 12-goal thumping of Port Adelaide at home in Round 22 and was then a legitimate omission from Fremantle's 71-point trouncing from St Kilda a week later when the Dockers rested 12 of their starting 18 contingent ahead of the gruelling finals campaign. Walters managed just one goal against the Cats in the 15-point win and improved his scoring value as the finals campaign gathered force. He was at his dangerous best with three majors from 14 disposals in the home preliminary final win over Sydney a fortnight later and then managed a couple of goals from 11 touches in the Grand Final. Johnson, 29, battled a nagging calf strain throughout the month-long finals campaign after the reliable key defender was a shock withdrawal on the day of the Cats first final clash when the All-Australian had been expected to play. He played in the preliminary final but finished the Grand Final with a badly torn calf as one of the Dockers' best with 20 possessions, eight marks and an impressive 80 per cent accuracy in his disposal. McPharlin, 31, had the horror assignment of manning Hawks superstar and danger man Lance Franklin for much of the Grand Final. McPharlin, who enters next season in the final year of his existing contract, had 16 possessions and wasn't as efficient as normal with his foot disposal.