St Kilda’s Mason Wood is expected to miss six weeks of football after breaking his collarbone in a damaging incident at the MCG on Friday night.
Wood collided in mid-air with his teammate Zaine Cordy as they both went for the ball in the first quarter of the game against Collingwood.
The impact spun Wood, who fell to ground heavily and was knocked out by the impact.
The game was stopped for several minutes as medical teams came onto the MCG to attend to the 30-year-old.
He was taken off the ground on a stretcher, before going to hospital for scans.
His team went on to beat defending premiers Collingwood by 15 points for St Kilda’s first win of the season.
The club confirmed on Friday that Wood had been concussed, and would now undergo surgery within 24 hours on his injured collarbone.
“Obviously you’d prefer your players not get injured at all, but considering the angle and way Mason landed, we could’ve been dealing with something far more serious,” Saints general manager of football David Misson said.
“Mason’s set for surgery in the next few hours, which is a great start. He’ll now get his rehab started pretty much straight away.
“We’ll have a better idea of a return to play timeline after his initial recovery from surgery — we think it’ll be around the six-week mark, but we’ll be able to provide a clearer picture early next week.
“If we know anything about Mase it’s that he’s extremely diligent and professional in how he looks after his body, so we know he’ll be doing everything he can to get right and be back on the field as soon as possible.”
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Source: AFL NEWS ABC
