{"id":285143,"date":"2025-11-15T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285143\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:27:11","slug":"melbourne-hit-with-afl-reprimand-over-eden-zanker-concussion-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285143\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne hit with AFL reprimand over Eden Zanker concussion breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zanker is sidelined for today\u2019s semi-final against Adelaide after entering concussion protocols last Sunday with the timeline that occurred coming under question by the league. <\/p>\n<p>The Demons were this week issued with a please explain relating to their handling, with the league telling this masthead on Saturday that changes were required before the semi-final clash. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AFL has issued a reprimand to Melbourne in relation to a breach of the concussion protocols and will provide further training to the Melbourne doctors in advance of tomorrow\u2019s match,\u201d the league said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cZanker is currently in concussion protocols and will not play in Melbourne\u2019s AFLW Semi-Final against Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AFL will consider learnings from this process and breach in the upcoming annual review of the AFL &amp; AFLW Concussion Guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe health and safety of our players is of paramount importance, and it is vital that there is strict adherence to the concussion guidelines to ensure that a player that suffers a head knock is appropriately managed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zanker is sidelined for today\u2019s semi-final against Adelaide after entering concussion protocols last Sunday with the timeline that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-285143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285143","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=285143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}