Sydney Swans veteran Luke Parker could possibly be staring down the barrel of a prolonged suspension following an off the ball hit within the VFL.
Throughout Friday evening’s contest towards Frankson, the Swans star ran previous the ball and elected to bump opponent Josh Smith.
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The brutal second half bump floored Smith and left him crumpled up on the turf of Kinetic Stadium.
The hit got here greater than 5 metres off the ball as play was dropped at a halt shortly after as trainers helped Smith from the sphere.
The Frankston participant was despatched to hospital after struggling critical facial accidents on account of the hit from Parker.
The Herald Solar’s Jon Ralph wrote: “This doesn’t look good for Luke Parker. You bump, you might be accountable for the contact. Frankston’s Josh Smith despatched to hospital with a cheekbone damage.”
Any suspension handed down will imply Parker’s potential return to the AFL might be delayed having didn’t crack Sydney’s facet after a stable month with the reserves facet.
“I see him getting again into the workforce in some unspecified time in the future,” Kate McCarthy mentioned on Channel 7’s Armchair Consultants on Friday evening.
“I might have thought with (Robbie) Fox’s damage, that might be subsequent week.
“However from what we noticed from the grainy footage, I consider that he’ll face a good bit of scrutiny for that one.
“It was an off-the-ball block, he’s bought him, the ball’s gone previous the place he’s, after which he’s copped him excessive.
“From all the things we’ve seen to date this yr, that’s positively going to be not less than per week, which might imply he’s out of the workforce for an additional week, however I’d say it’s greater than that.”
Adam Cooney mentioned it will be greater than per week.
“Eight, 9 years in the past, you’d have known as it an ideal shepherd for the man coming by. Now, you understand you possibly can’t do this,” he mentioned.
“It was simply so pointless and if the accidents which are rumoured to be true, he’s going to face just a few weeks on the sidelines — which is unlucky, as a result of with the Fox damage, there was a spot opening up that he probably might have are available in (to).”
Regardless of the Parker incident, the Swans continued their premiership kind by dismantling Carlton on Friday evening.
After a backwards and forwards begin on the SCG, the Swans ran riot as the house facet kicked 17 objectives to 5 the remainder of the way in which to march to a 17.15 (117) to 9.11 (65) thrashing that had consultants and followers alike reaching for superlatives.
With Brownlow Medal favorite Isaac Heeney, greatest on floor Chad Warner and the ridiculously skilful Errol Gulden main the way in which, four-time premiership-winning Hawk Jordan Lewis made an unlimited assertion on Fox Footy.
“The one factor they’ve on their facet is age,” Lewis mentioned after the 52-point win. “Heeney’s 28, Warner is 22, Gulden is 21.
“They’re already within the dialog of one of the best gamers within the AFL on the age they’re at.
“That’s the factor, if they will construct on that, get individuals round them like they’re, they may probably be one of the best mixture of the trendy period.”
