{"id":392849,"date":"2024-05-11T11:44:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T11:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=392849"},"modified":"2024-05-11T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T14:06:17","slug":"tigers-terrifying-accident-silences-mcg-in-scary-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=392849","title":{"rendered":"Tiger&#039;s terrifying accident silences MCG in scary scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/richmond-tigers\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"R\ufeffichmond\">R\ufeffichmond<\/a> winger Sam Banks has been knocked out after a horrific mid-air collision with <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/western-bulldogs\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Western Bulldogs\">Western Bulldogs<\/a> ruckman Tim English during the third quarter of their clash at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened right in front of Richmond&#x27;s bench, with English pushed under the ball by Tiger Noah Balta into Banks as he was running back with the flight of Jack Macrae&#x27;s kick up the line.<\/p>\n<p>English then accidentally flipped Banks mid-air, with the 21-year-old somersaulting and landing directly on his head, knocked out by the impact.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/news-2024-novak-djokovic-knocked-on-head-by-water-bottle-italian-open\/141a9cdd-015b-4357-9ada-a9f0963c38e5\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"&#x27;Upset&#x27; 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aid as he lay on the MCG turf.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Eight of Richmond&#x27;s medical team attended to Banks, who was immediately put into a neck brace and onto a stretcher.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"9f5cb779-2c5f-46fc-9e28-26610ffddae7\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/9f5cb779-2c5f-46fc-9e28-26610ffddae7\" alt=\"Balta immediately checked out Banks.\" data-width=\"3474\" data-height=\"2424\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The entire Richmond team went to Banks as he was driven off the ground as he came to.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers confirmed that Banks was &quot;up and talking&quot; to club Doctor Greg Hickey in the rooms after the hit.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Clearly a pretty distressing view when someone goes so limp on the ground like that,&quot; Tigers great Matthew Richardson said at three quarter time.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Good news from the Richmond rooms is that he is okay, bit of a headache, but okay.\ufeff&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"d31242fd-3417-490a-93ea-fafc04566e2e\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/d31242fd-3417-490a-93ea-fafc04566e2e-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Balta immediately checked out Banks.\" data-width=\"3000\" data-height=\"2000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Banks will enter the league&#x27;s concussion protocols, ruling him out for a minimum 12 days, meaning he will miss at least their round 10 clash against Brisbane.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Adem Yze looks in a state of concern,&quot; Fox Footy commentators said.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The terrifying incident raises more concern around the protection of the head in the game.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"6d662761-aa2a-4c83-9dc6-7cbe22ec0393\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/6d662761-aa2a-4c83-9dc6-7cbe22ec0393-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Balta immediately checked out Banks.\" data-width=\"5435\" data-height=\"3624\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday night, Geelong forward Jeremy Cameron waved away doctors after a heavy fall on his head from a marking contest, later to have confirmed to have suffered delayed concussion symptoms on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/news-2024-angus-brayshaw-retires-melbourne-demons-concussion-impacts-exclusive\/623ea7f0-4cf1-4b96-b5f5-751945d06b2c\" target=\"\" title=\"Melbourne midfielder Angus Brayshaw was forced to medically retire\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melbourne midfielder Angus Brayshaw was forced to medically retire<\/a> on the eve of the 2024 season due to the head trauma he has suffered\ufeff.<\/p>\n<p>Just weeks ago, Collingwood premiership defender <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/news-2024-nathan-murphy-medical-retirement-collingwood-head-trauma-concussion\/06a0a2ad-8425-433b-bce2-7b0ea16a27d3\" target=\"\" title=\"Nathan Murphy\ufeff was also forced to retire\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nathan Murphy\ufeff was also forced to retire<\/a> because of the long-term risk of further concussions and head trauma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>R\ufeffichmond winger Sam Banks has been knocked out after a horrific mid-air collision with Western Bulldogs ruckman Tim English during the third quarter of their <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=392849\" title=\"Tiger&#039;s terrifying accident silences MCG in scary scenes\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":392824,"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\/392849"}],"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=392849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392854,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392849\/revisions\/392854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/392824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}