Essendon clung to a narrow victory against North Melbourne, but a devastating incident put a shock absorber on the result.
In a low punctuation clash in the Marvel Stadium, it was the bombers that left with the crucial Victoria 65-62 to keep them at a surprising distance from the eight of the AFL.
However, he had a price with Harrison Jones suffering a dislocated ankle.
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The 24 -year -old jumped for a ball before the limits, but landed awkwardly and immediately clung to the bottom of the leg and stayed against the fence.
Jones was taken from the field through Medicab after a long delay.
Harrison Jones leaves the field with an ankle injury. AFL photos through Getty images
“That is not a good sign,” said Mark Howard on Fox Footy.
“You heard ‘endure, we need a stretcher’, which is really bad news.”
World World of Sports has chosen not to show images or images of the incident.
Jon Ralph of Fox Footy spoke when the players and Essendon’s staff reacted to the injury.
“Horrible scenes here when Harrison Jones took off in a medical cart. All Essendon’s medical fraternity tried to comfort him there,” he said.
“They will be really worried about a fractured ankle. Really shady scenes here as Essendon’s players who look at them in the medical cart.
There were also criticism that the game was allowed to continue while medical staff hastened to attend Jones, even though he was out of the playing field.
“That’s strange,” said David King in the comments.
“I mean, if the stretcher comes to the field, the game stops. That is a mistake.”
