Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has strongly defended a club doctor’s decision to allow both Zak Butters and Tom Jonas to return to the field in less than 10 minutes following a heavy head clash during PAFC’s loss to Richmond on Thursday night.
Asked about the incident in his post-game press conference, Hinkley said:
“I gather there’d be some conversation around the collision, but people get cuts in games of football and they don’t get concussion.
“I’ve got a doctor who’s been with our footy club 25 years and the conversation between our doctor and our football manager during the game was these boys have got no issue with concussion.
“If anyone’s got a challenge on that and they feel more qualified than Mark Fisher, who’s a 25 year AFL doctor, feel free. “I think you’d want to be really, really sure you’re not trying to umpire or make some calls from outside the fence when you have no knowledge, we’ve got a very experienced doctor who has the utmost respect in the AFL.”
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