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<\/p>\nDespite the knocks, Hughes played out Thursday night\u2019s game and attended the post-match function, but his wife rushed him to hospital early the next morning when she realised he was not well.<\/p>\n
Allies coach Shane Crawford jokingly urged his players to physically target Hughes in a televised pre-match address. The comedian came off second best in a contest with West Coast premiership player Embley, was pushed to the ground by Gorringe at a centre bounce, then kicked a goal and was toppled by Robinson as he celebrated.<\/p>\n
Crawford said he asked Hughes post match whether he was OK, and had reached out to him on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI sent him a message saying, for starters, not many get through a game with broken ribs, so you are in very rare company. Obviously, I hope he is OK,\u201d Crawford said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely don\u2019t want anyone getting injured.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brodie Grundy\u2019s brother denied $70k car<\/p>\n
The brother of star ruckman Brodie Grundy has missed out on winning a $70,000 car despite finishing on top of the AFL Fantasy competition because the league\u2019s organisers discovered he was related to a current player.<\/p>\n
Kyerin Grundy believed he would land first prize \u2013 a new Toyota Hilux \u2013 after outsmarting and outplaying more than 150,000 registered teams, including a late-season decision to trade his Sydney-based sibling into his side.<\/p>\n
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Sydney\u2019s Brodie Grundy has been a big points winner for fantasy teams this year.Credit: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
But his dreams were dashed on Monday when competition organisers called to say he was disqualified because he did not meet the AFL\u2019s terms and conditions \u2013 which state immediate family members are not eligible to win any prizes.<\/p>\n
A disappointed Grundy said he was led to believe he could land the car when he was invited to join the AFL\u2019s official fantasy podcast earlier this month to explain the success of his team and chances of winning.<\/p>\n
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One of the podcast\u2019s hosts, Warnie, said to him during the interview: \u201cHopefully we can all go for a ride in the Hilux.\u201d<\/p>\n
The podcast was promoted on the AFL\u2019s website. Grundy was also the subject of an article that appeared on the AFL website before it was later removed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey would have known I was going to win a prize of some sort and then no one said anything until the Monday (which) was disappointing,\u201d Grundy told Seven.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it went to their legal team, and they\u2019ve then decided that under the immediate family rule, that I\u2019m not eligible for the prizes, and that also, they were unaware of me being on The Traders podcast, and they took it down as soon as they realised.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo they\u2019ve just sort of totally just blown it off. I don\u2019t even know if they\u2019re going to still recognise me as the overall winner or if someone else is the overall winner.\u201d<\/p>\n
The AFL Fantasy organisers sent Grundy a follow-up email on Thursday to clarify their position.<\/p>\n
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Brodie Grundy (left) with his brother\u00a0Kyerin Grundy.Credit: Sydney Swans<\/p>\n
A football source with knowledge of the rules of the competition who was not authorised to speak publicly said attempts were made to contact Grundy before the season was finished to tell him that he was ineligible, but they were unable to reach him.<\/p>\n
An AFL spokesperson told this masthead that the eligibility rules were clearly stated in the AFL Fantasy\u2019s terms and conditions which had to be agreed to by all competitors before they registered.<\/p>\n
Those terms and conditions say: \u201cEntry is open to all people; although employees of the promoter, the AFL, all AFL clubs and other agencies, firms or companies associated with this promotion, and their immediate families will not be eligible for prizes. Non-Australian entrants will not be eligible for prizes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the knocks, Hughes played out Thursday night\u2019s game and attended the post-match function, but his wife rushed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-106054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}