of the Demons\u2019 win over Brisbane on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe defender was immediately taken into the rooms and did not return to the field.<\/p>\n
Melbourne coach Steven King said Petty could have suffered a serious delayed concussion from an earlier hit.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re still having a bit of a look at that, potentially concussion or something,\u201d King said, after a nail-biting win over the reigning premiers.<\/p>\n
Analysing Petty’s delayed concussion | 01:51<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll do all the right tests but we\u2019re not 100 per cent sure, but he was complaining of some blurred vision so we\u2019ll do all the test tonight and tomorrow. Obviously, not great.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s something he received that ball in the goalsquare and he probably thought \u2018I should\u2019ve stopped the game\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether it was something more sinister, whether it was delayed concussion, we\u2019ll have a look at it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he mentioned something (about blurred vision) before, slightly before that kick, we\u2019re obviously going to take it pretty seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dual All-Australian Leigh Montagna watched vision of Petty back closely and pinpointed a marking contest in the second term \u2014 where Petty\u2019s chin makes accidental contact with Lion Josh Dunkley \u2014 that might\u2019ve led to his on-field instability some 45 minutes later.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found that incident and then I watched the rest of the play up until this moment \u2014 and I didn\u2019t see one sign of him, up until that point, showing any signs of distress or light-headedness or anything like that,\u201d Montagna told Fox Footy\u2019s First Crack. \u201cSo, it was interesting to see how quickly it came on.<\/p>\n
‘No better place’ to play than the MCG | 11:38<\/p>\n
\u201cThe question is was it coincidence when it came on? It was the second time in the game where he kicked the ball directly to the opposition inside defensive 50 and had conceded a goal \u2026 it just then came on there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI watched even the 10 minutes before that, there was not one sign of him having any issues \u2014 and then, all of a sudden to come on like that, I thought was a bit bizarre.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven with a delayed concussion, to have your legs go under you like that out of nowhere, it was interesting.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut again, we don\u2019t know everything about delayed concussion. It was just the timing of it, I thought, was interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dual premiership Kangaroo David King added: \u201cI haven\u2019t seen a delayed concussion hit like this \u2026 It is disturbing to watch.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fox Footy commentator might\u2019ve uncovered the innocuous marking contest that later led to a \u201cbizarre\u201d and \u201cdisturbing\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,299964,651,3239,299960,73839,1127,5330,299962,285052,17290,299620,299959,677,299961,701,52765,85,299963],"class_list":{"0":"post-618520","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-australia-and-new-zealand","12":"tag-australian-football-league","13":"tag-australianfootballleague","14":"tag-blurred-vision","15":"tag-brisbane","16":"tag-carlton-blues","17":"tag-concussion-incident-leaves","18":"tag-footy-news","19":"tag-fox-footy","20":"tag-head-coach","21":"tag-innocuous-marking-contest","22":"tag-kangaroo-david-king","23":"tag-marking-contest","24":"tag-mental-health-episode","25":"tag-nail-biting-win","26":"tag-oceania","27":"tag-on-field-incident","28":"tag-queensland","29":"tag-reigning-premiers","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-unusual-head-injury"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618520","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=618520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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