{"id":55933,"date":"2021-04-09T07:41:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T07:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55933"},"modified":"2021-04-09T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T10:58:57","slug":"bizarre-injury-wipes-out-crows-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55933","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre injury wipes out Crows captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/taylor-walker-continues-resurgence-as-adelaide-crows-beat-gold-coast-suns\/ef2b8b27-0caa-47a2-a6fb-0219a302c3c9\" title=\"Adelaide captain Rory Sloane\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adelaide captain Rory Sloane<\/a> is set to miss up to a month of footy due to a bizarre injury in a massive blow to the Crows&#x27; promising start to the season.<\/p>\n<p>The gun midfielder reported blurred vision during yesterday&#x27;s training session and, after consulting with a specialist today, requires surgery to fix a retinal detachment.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Rory&#x27;s health and wellbeing is obviously our number-one priority,&quot; said Crows head of football Adam Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;At this stage, it is hard to give a definitive date on when he will return to the field, but we are hopeful of it being in the vicinity of two to four weeks.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>As per Kelly&#x27;s estimation of two to four weeks on the sideline, Sloane won&#x27;t play until at least the Crows&#x27; clash with the Giants at Adelaide Oval in round seven.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"2eee0525-9b08-4b5e-97af-b690e1feb780\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/2eee0525-9b08-4b5e-97af-b690e1feb780\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sloane was instrumental to Adelaide&#x27;s victory over Gold Coast last Friday, posting 34 possessions (19 contested) and 11 clearances.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#x27;s wooden-spooners have surprised the footy world early in season 2021, trumping Geelong by 12 points in round one, falling to Sydney in a dogged 33-point defeat in round two and pipping Gold Coast by 10 points last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Crows will start as heavy favourites against the last-placed North Melbourne at Marvel Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Adelaide captain Rory Sloane is set to miss up to a month of footy due to a bizarre injury in a massive blow to the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55933\" title=\"Bizarre injury wipes out Crows captain\">[&#8230;]<\/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\/55933"}],"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=55933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55935,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55933\/revisions\/55935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}