AFL youngster granted personal leave

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The Adelaide Crows person granted Fischer McAsey idiosyncratic permission up of pre-season grooming commencing this week.

Crows caput of shot Adam Kelly said the nine was knowing of McAsey's circumstances and confirmed the 21-year-old would not beryllium joining his teammates successful South Australia until aft the Christmas break.

"We are afloat supportive of Fischer taking idiosyncratic permission and we volition springiness him the clip and abstraction that helium requires," Kelly said successful a nine statement.

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The Adelaide Crows person granted Fischer McAsey idiosyncratic leave. (Mark Brake/Getty Images)

"We volition stay successful regular connection with him, arsenic good arsenic his management, to guarantee helium has ongoing enactment portion distant from the club.

"As always, the payment of our radical is the apical precedence and we inquire that Fischer's privateness beryllium respected during this period."

McAsey was selected by the Crows with prime No.6 successful the 2019 nationalist draft.

He debuted successful the opening circular of the 2020 play and played 10 AFL games successful his archetypal campaign.

However, helium hasn't been seen astatine the elder level since circular 12 of 2020.

Adelaide manager Matthew Nicks came to the youngster's defence this play erstwhile questions were asked astir McAsey's non-selection.

Justin Westhoff of the Power breaks distant from Fischer McAsey of the Crows. (AFL Photos via Getty Images)

"For Fischer, it has been a beauteous pugnacious road. He's enactment his caput down, he's moving truthful hard to get his crippled backmost to definite levels," Nicks said.

"Now, determination were a fig of reasons wherefore aboriginal (on) it wasn't moving for him.

"Things happening disconnected field, a mates of challenges that helium was faced with, but successful saying that he's started moving truly hard connected his footy."

There were trade rumours past month that McAsey would petition a determination backmost location to Victoria, but thing eventuated.

McAsey is retired of declaration astatine the extremity of adjacent season.

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