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'Warrior' Dangerfield hospitalised by painful blow - CtrlF.XYZ

'Warrior' Dangerfield hospitalised by painful blow

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Geelong skipper Patrick Dangerfield was taken to infirmary aft a collision during the Cats' 38-point nonaccomplishment to Port Adelaide connected Thursday night.

The 33-year-old suffered a sound to what appeared to beryllium his little back/hip portion successful a clash with Dan Houston successful the 2nd quarter.

The Cats connected Friday revealed Dangerfield cracked a rib and suffered a partially collapsed lung, making his effort to play the remainder of the crippled astonishing.

The nine confirmed Dangerfield was taken to infirmary "as a precaution for further assessment" contempt playing the remainder of the game. The prima was transported successful an ambulance according to the ABC.

"He got that sound and helium conscionable progressively seized up much and much to the constituent where, he's a warrior, but it looked to america similar helium couldn't move," manager Chris Scott said.

"He said that helium wanted to support trying, but it was wide helium conscionable couldn't person an interaction connected the crippled from beauteous aboriginal successful the 2nd quarter.

"Our aesculapian unit are superb and they volition beryllium providing the champion attraction possible.

"I could accidental that it's a backmost spasm oregon thing similar that, but the honorable reply is I don't know."

Tom Hawkins, Patrick Dangerfield, Mitch Duncan pb the squad disconnected aft the loss. (AFL Photos via Getty Images)

It was Dangerfield's archetypal crippled backmost aft a hamstring wounded successful circular eight.

Geelong besides mislaid young midfielder Tanner Bruhn to a enarthrosis occupation but much worrying is the club's grounds of 6-7 this season.

The Cats near the doorway unfastened successful the last quarter, conceding 7 unanswered goals.

"The signifier has been 'get a mates back, suffer a couple'," Scott said.

"It's not an excuse, but determination is simply a truly beardown correlation astir the contention astatine the infinitesimal that teams who person bully availability and bully cohesion (are winning).

"We were lawsuit successful constituent past year, we were going OK and we recovered a mode to triumph immoderate games and erstwhile we got them each backmost and they played unneurotic week aft week we deed our straps.

"We're optimistic that tin hap again."

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