Port Adelaide are hoping for one of the best, however fearing the worst, after stress ahead Sam Powell-Pepper suffered a doubtlessly season-ending knee damage.
Powell-Pepper can have scans on his knee after going off through the third quarter of Port’s 11.16 (82) to 10.12 (72) win over St Kilda on the Adelaide Oval on Friday evening.
It was an evening of carnage for the Power, who additionally misplaced captain Connor Rozee (hamstring) and defender Aliir Aliir (concussion).
All three will virtually definitely miss Port’s Showdown in opposition to Adelaide again on the similar venue on Thursday evening.
Port coach Ken Hinkley admitted the incident appeared “a bit nasty”.
“The medical report is that they’re a little bit hopeful,” he mentioned.
“But we’ll wait and see what, again, what the scan says.
“There’s some scare as a result of he is harm his knee.
“When you hurt your knee, and can’t go back on, my history in the game and the amount of times I’ve seen those sort of things happen, it lends itself towards possibly being an ACL.
“But the medical doctors have been saying afterwards, that there is some promising components round the way in which it examined. We will not guess, it is too laborious to guess.”
Powell-Pepper was only playing his third game since serving a four-match suspension for a high bump during a pre-season hitout.
Rozee, Port’s star midfielder, will likely be sidelined for Port’s first home-and-away opportunity to play their cross-town rivals, the Crows, since he was named captain ahead of this season.
The 24-year-old will undergo scans but indicated in a post-game interview it was a minor hamstring strain.
“Just a little bit nick within the hammy so hopefully not too lengthy,” Rozee told the Seven Network.
Aliir has been placed into concussion protocols following a tackle by St Kilda small forward Jack Higgins in in the second term.
Higgins faces a nervous wait to learn if he will be cited by the match review officer for a dangerous tackle.
St Kilda coach Ross Lyon said he had not seen the incident
“There’s nice processes and buildings throughout the AFL and the sport so the whole lot will get taken care of in the long run,” Lyon mentioned.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
