Melbourne captain Max Gawn has gone down with a suspected knee harm simply minutes into Friday night time’s blockbuster towards Brisbane.
Demons midfielder Jack Viney innocuously ran into Gawn’s left leg within the early phases of the primary quarter.
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The ruckman was instantly in ache and went off the sector and down into the rooms for evaluation together with his head in his palms.
He was changed by Melbourne’s substitute Jake Melksham, leaving new recruit Brodie Grundy to shoulder the ruck work towards Brisbane’s Oscar McInerney and Darcy Fort.
Gawn was noticed within the rooms nursing an ice pack on his knee, trying extraordinarily dejected.
“That image is worth 1000 words if you are seeing it,” Gerard Whateley stated in commentary on SEN.
“And if you’re not, it’s despondency if ever you’ve seen it.”
The precise nature of the harm isn’t clear but and Gawn returned to the interchange bench and can seemingly endure scans on Saturday.
The premiership captain and six-time All Australian torn the ACL in his proper knee twice early in his profession.
Fox Footy’s Jon Ralph reported the “best case scenario” can be a medial ligament pressure that will rule Gawn out for a few months.
“The silver lining is it’s not his right knee, which has been surgically reconstructed,” Ralph stated.
“But didn’t that body language just tell you a tale of desolation.”
Demons head of soccer stated Alan Richardson Gawn’s preliminary analysis was “reasonable”.
“Clearly a sore knee,” Richardson informed Channel 7 at halftime.
“We don’t know much more really. I know there’s an image going around that suggests he’s feeling really down and that leads to potential ACL stuff. That’s not the case.
“We’re going to have to scan it. Our doctors are saying he feels reasonable…”
Brisbane dominated the midfield battle to guide by 40 factors halfway via the fourth quarter earlier than an influence outage noticed the floodlights flip off and the sport suspended.
Once play resumed, Melbourne kicked 5 straight objectives however it was too little, too late because the Lions held on for a 14.9 (93) to 13.4 (82) victory.
Source: www.news.com.au
