The AFL has ordered Port Adelaide to elucidate why star defender Aliir Aliir and teammate Lachie Jones didn’t undertake full concussion exams after a sickening collision which drew questions from a world famend professional.
Aliir turned as much as coaching on Monday declaring he was “fine” however each he and Jones was later positioned in concussion protocols and gained’t play this week in a dramatic aftermath to the pinnacle conflict between the pair throughout final Saturday’s Showdown loss to Adelaide.
Jones underwent a head impression evaluation and whereas he was cleared of a concussion from the second-quarter incident he was subbed out of the sport at half-time.
But Aliir returned to the bottom later within the quarter and performed out the match, which even raised considerations kind famend concussion professional Dr Chris Nowinski.
The AFL additionally confirmed it had despatched a “please explain” relating to the concussion protocol administration and “specifically in relation to the club’s decision not to undertake a SCAT5 concussion test” after the incident”.
“In absence of the SCAT5 test occurring and out of an abundance of caution, the Port Adelaide Football Club has decided to enter Aliir into AFL Concussion protocols and he will be unable to participate, at a minimum, in the clubs Round 21 match this week vs the Geelong Cats,” a league assertion stated.
“Upon further review after being substituted on Saturday night, Port Adelaide player Lachie Jones, who was involved in the collision with Aliir, has also entered AFL Concussion protocols.”
Both gamers will now have to undertake and medically move the obligatory 11-step, minimal 12-day course of earlier than returning to play .
The AFL may additionally dole out some punishment together with fines on the Power if it decides that physician Mark Fisher breached the league’s tips on concussion.
On Sunday the Power on Sunday made clear Fisher was sturdy in his perception Aliir had no concussion-related signs and didn’t want the SCAT 5 take a look at, regardless of imaginative and prescient of the incident exhibiting the defender splayed on the bottom within the aftermath.
The incident stays the topic of an AFL investigation.
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