Captain fires up after having finals dream robbed

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Adelaide skipper Chelsea Randall has taken purpose astatine the AFLW's concussion protocols aft she was ruled retired of this week's semi final.

Randall should beryllium starring the Crows retired against Collingwood successful the season's penultimate round, hoping to scope the decider.

But she volition alternatively beryllium forced to ticker connected from the sidelines aft the league intervened to regularisation her physically unfit to play.

Randall suffered a caput sound during past week's game, but was passed acceptable by nine doctors and was told she would beryllium capable to play successful the semis.

But caller imaginativeness made its mode to AFL headquarters, wherever a determination was made to regularisation Randall retired nether the concussion protocols.

Randall besides missed the 2021 AFLW expansive last pursuing a concussion.

"It is frustrating, and I'm disappointed," Randall said connected Thursday.

"Around the strategy and the process successful spot because, clinically, I was cleared of each of that, and I lone recovered retired precocious past nighttime that the communicative had changed.

"If I had the aforesaid sound astatine training, we wouldn't person vision, and I'd person a objective appraisal and I'd beryllium playing this weekend.

"Unfortunately it means with this process, immoderate players who aren't concussed volition miss games."

The Crows and Magpies look disconnected connected Saturday afternoon, pursuing Richmond and North Melbourne.

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