The Demons were issued with a ‘please explain’ by the League<\/a> after Zanker passed a head injury assessment after a head knock during the qualifying final, returning to the field before being pulled back off and entering concussion protocols.<\/p>\nThe AFL confirmed on Saturday morning it had handed down the sanction, just hours before the Demons’ must-win semi-final against Adelaide.<\/p>\n
Melbourne has confirmed the same club doctors from the qualifying final will be on duty during Saturday’s match.<\/p>\n
The League has committed to providing further training to Melbourne’s doctors ahead of the semi-final.<\/p>\n
“The 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,” the AFL said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“The AFL will consider learnings from this process and breach in the upcoming annual review of the AFL & AFLW Concussion Guidelines.”<\/p>\n
At a press conference on Wednesday, Melbourne coach Mick Stinear explained how the in-game incident unfolded.<\/p>\n
“The AFL and our doctors are working really closely together, I think it\u2019s probably little things on game day that we\u2019re able to review and tighten up,” Stinear said.<\/p>\n
“But ultimately (Eden) had passed the SCAT, but there were some signs on the vision that perhaps she needed to be ruled out. And I think that was picked up really quickly by the AFL, and our doctors.<\/p>\n
“Ultimately, from our point-of-view we\u2019re really happy with our medical team and how they handled it, and I thought both our medical team and the AFL worked really collaboratively during the game. And the number one thing is [Eden] is okay.”<\/p>\n
Zanker is currently in concussion protocols and will not play in the semi-final.<\/p>\n
Melbourne is expected to comment further after Saturday’s match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne has been handed a reprimand by the AFL over its handling of Eden Zanker’s concussion Eden Zanker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-285392","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","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285392","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=285392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}