Touk Miller has gone down with a knee damage in grim indicators for a Suns outfit that managed to knock over North Melbourne in a gutsy and essential win.
Miller appeared to break down over his left knee halfway by the conflict in opposition to the Kangaroos diving to get a handball away, and was attended to by physios earlier than returning to the sector.
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Not lengthy afterwards, nonetheless, it appeared to be that Miller’s left knee locked up, marking the top of his involvement within the contest and placing query marks over the Suns’ midfield depth as soon as once more.
The Suns’ midfield core of Matt Rowell, Noah Anderson and Miller checked out some extent to be one of the vital harmful younger combos within the league after Rowell and Anderson have been drafted with the highest two picks in 2019, however that hasn’t eventuated so far.
Regardless, the Suns would go on to dominate a lacklustre North Melbourne outfit, getting up 14.13 (97) to 7.12 (54).
The Suns had misplaced 4 out of their previous 5 video games heading into the essential conflict at Carrara, however 5 targets from Ben King ensured they relieved some stress on the under-fire Stuart Dew, who has been criticised for not maximising his membership’s huge riches of younger expertise, in addition to shedding figures like Izak Rankine to conventional soccer states.
Suns co-captain Jarrod Witts spoke on the significance of the sport, telling Fox Footy’s Alistair Lynch that the Suns have been in a position to management the soccer considerably greater than in earlier weeks.
Asked concerning the return to type of key ahead Ben King, Witts was glowing in his reward.
“Yeah he’s a really important part of our footy club and a great man,” Witts stated.
‘To see him put some continuity together has been great, it’s nice to have him again on the market.”
King has struggled together with his confidence at occasions this season, nevertheless it was clear from the opening bounce on Sunday that the massive man had come able to play.
He persistently threw himself into the competition, labored laborious up the bottom and even almost took a mark of the yr contender early on.
King, who has been the current topic of hypothesis surrounding his future regardless of having a contract till the top of subsequent yr, had 4 targets to halftime and completed with 5 targets.
Fellow Suns tall Jack Lukosius sprayed his first shot however kicked his first within the third time period.
North Melbourne vibrant spark Harry Sheezel has been having a ball in his first season, however Gold Coast ensured the occasion got here to an finish.
Sheezel had been averaging over 30 disposals a recreation in his first 5 video games, however Suns coach Stuart Dew determined to throw powerful nut Nick Holman onto the younger star.
With Holman sporting him like a glove, the raging Rising Star favorite had simply six disposals to the primary break.
He was moved from halfback to half-forward after halftime and completed with 11 disposals.
Elsewhere, it was not the consequence that veteran Todd Goldstein would have needed on the event of his three hundredth recreation.
He has now change into simply the ninth VFL-AFL ruckman to achieve the 300-game milestone, behind Simon Madden, Gary Dempsey, Don Scott, John ‘Sam’ Newman, Len Thompson, John Nicholls, Paul Salmon and Justin Madden.
That makes him the primary ruckman to achieve the elusive milestone this century.
– with NCA Newswire
Source: www.news.com.au
