{"id":923943,"date":"2026-10-11T06:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/923943\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T06:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:36:10","slug":"two-carlton-afl-players-hospitalised-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/923943\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Carlton AFL players hospitalised in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Two Carlton AFL football players have been hospitalised in Melbourne, the club says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The club confirmed Lachie Cowan and Will Hayward were admitted to hospital on Sunday under separate circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An Ambulance Victoria spokesperson said advanced life-support paramedics responded to reports of an incident in South Yarra about 5:15am today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A man in his 20s was transported by road ambulance to The Alfred Hospital with upper body injuries in a stable condition,&#8221;  they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The club said Cowan received medical treatment and underwent observation, before being discharged a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Will Hayward experienced a minor cut to the head after a fall, and admitted himself to hospital, where he received stitches before being discharged, they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Cowan, a Tasmanian drafted to the Blues in 2022, has played 38 games for the club as a young defender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Howard, who re-signed with Sydney in 2024, crossed over to the forward line at Carlton in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The club said it has been in regular contact with both players, with the priority on their wellbeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Carlton AFL football players have been hospitalised in Melbourne, the club says.\u00a0 The club confirmed Lachie Cowan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,40366,64,63,55,639,6856,4082,3899,314712,85,112087],"class_list":["post-923943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-ambulance-victoria","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-carlton","tag-hospital","tag-injury","tag-lachie-cowan","tag-sports","tag-will-hayward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923943","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=923943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}