Luckless Melbourne defender Marty Hore will miss the entire 2021 season after today rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament at training.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old suffered the setback when he was tackled and was then helped from the ground by trainers.<\/p>\n
Melbourne footy boss Alan Richardson confirmed Hore, who hasn't played since 2019 due to a torrid run with injury, had hit another hurdle.<\/p>\n
MORE AFL NEWS:<\/strong> Saints coach Brett Ratten excited about bulked-up Max King<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/melbournefc\/status\/1352511424656904201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n "Unfortunately, the scans have confirmed that Marty has ruptured his ACL and will miss an extended period of time," Richardson told the club's website.<\/p>\n "This is devastating news for Marty and the club, as he was preparing for the season ahead.<\/p>\n "Marty is a very impressive and resilient person, and we will fully support him through his rehab.<\/p>\n "He'll meet with the surgeon next week to discuss the appropriate treatment required to repair the ACL."<\/p>\n Hore has played 14 AFL games since Melbourne selected him as a mature-age recruit with pick 56 in the 2018 national draft.<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Luckless Melbourne defender Marty Hore will miss the entire 2021 season after today rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament at training. The 24-year-old suffered the setback […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25418,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25417\/revisions\/25418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}