Swans star to miss rest of season after head knock

Sydney Swans defender Paddy McCartin volition miss the remainder of the AFL play arsenic helium continues to retrieve from ongoing concussion symptoms.

McCartin suffered a concussion successful circular 4 against Port Adelaide adding to a agelong past of incidents which had curtailed his progress.

The caput sound was his archetypal important 1 since being delisted by St Kilda astatine the decision of the 2019 AFL play to let him to woody with those issues. He returned to the AFL with Sydney successful 2021.

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The Swans person transferred the 27-year-old to the club's inactive database arsenic helium continues to absorption connected his wide recovery.

McCartin's play was brought to an extremity erstwhile helium suffered a caput sound against Port Adelaide successful circular 4 (Brendon Thorne via Getty Images)

"In discussions with Paddy, our aesculapian squad and outer specialists, we each felt the determination to beryllium retired the remainder of the play was the close 1 to let Paddy to absorption connected making a palmy instrumentality to afloat health," Swans shot brag Charlie Gardiner said successful a connection connected Tuesday night.

"We person adopted a precise cautious attack to Paddy's betterment timeline to this constituent and portion Paddy has made advancement – helium has resumed immoderate airy workout and is progressive day-to-day astatine the nine – helium continues to acquisition immoderate mild symptoms and his absorption remains centred astir becoming grounds free.

"Paddy is simply a precise fashionable fig astatine our club, and we are each down him successful his recovery. He volition beryllium fixed each the clip and enactment helium needs and volition proceed to enactment with our aesculapian squad and outer specialists implicit the coming months, with his wide wellness and wellbeing our fig 1 priority."

Throughout McCartin's career, the cardinal defender has suffered 10 concussions, including the circular 4 incident.

Eight of those came astatine St Kilda wherever helium played from 2015 to '19. 

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