Brodie Grundy has been ruled out of Sydney’s clash against Geelong after suffering delayed concussion symptoms.<\/p>\n
The star ruck suffered a head knock after being crunched in a marking contest in the final quarter of a thrilling two-point win over Brisbane at the Gabba on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Grundy had passed a head injury assessment and was on his feet after the match.<\/p>\n
But Sydney coach Dean Cox confirmed Grundy reported delayed symptoms the day after their Gabba clash.<\/p>\n
“He obviously passed his HIA but then wasn’t well yesterday,” Cox told SEN Breakfast on Monday.<\/p>\n
“He’ll be into concussion protocols, which will mean he won’t be available this weekend.”<\/p>\n
Brodie Grundy won’t play against the Cats in Round 23.\u00a0Russell Freeman\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n
It is the first time Grundy will miss a game for the Swans, having featured in 47 matches since moving from Melbourne at the end of 2023.<\/p>\n
Grundy could return to play in Sydney’s final-round clash against West Coast should he progress through concussion protocols.<\/p>\n
“He might be back for that,” Cox said. “I think the thing we need to do with Brodie is to just assess day-to-day, which is what we have done with Hayden McLean.<\/p>\n
“He (McLean) came back after the 12-day protocol, and Tom McCartin was a week earlier.<\/p>\n
“We’ll just assess it as it plays.”<\/p>\n
Swans defender Justin McInerney is in doubt to feature again this season as he awaits scans on a likely posterior cruciate ligament injury.<\/p>\n
McInerney injured his knee in the final quarter against the Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Grundy has been ruled out of Sydney’s clash against Geelong after suffering delayed concussion symptoms. The star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-59230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59230","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=59230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}