Power remorseful after 'serious mistake' costs them $100k

The AFL has slapped Port Adelaide with a $100,000 good for the mismanagement and nonaccomplishment to travel league concussion protocols with Aliir Aliir aft a dense hit, with the nine remorseful for the error.

Port Adelaide released a connection connected Friday accepting the good and taking afloat work for the "significant mistake" made by nine doc Mark Fisher, who failed to springiness Aliir a SCAT5 concussion trial astatine the clip aft impact.

The good comes aft the collision betwixt defenders Aliir and Lachie Jones during the Power's Showdown nonaccomplishment to Adelaide connected Saturday

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"Our nine understands the wellness and information of players astatine each levels of the crippled is the cardinal precedence and we recognize concussion and the extortion of the encephalon wellness of each those playing our crippled is paramount," Power footy brag Chris Davies said successful the statement.

"As we said publically earlier successful the week, we judge we made a important mistake successful not pursuing the concussion guidelines appropriately.

"Our nine doc owned the mistake and publically acknowledged his error."

Davies said the Power are looking up to guarantee an incidental similar this does not hap again, backing his nine to travel protocols much stringently.

Aliir and Lachie Jones aft the collision connected Saturday. (AFL Photos via Getty Images)

"We judge the punishment handed down by the AFL and present look guardant to cooperating with AFL main aesculapian serviceman Michael Makdissi to reappraisal the weekend's incidental to guarantee each our nine aesculapian officers are afloat cognisant of the AFL's expectations regarding the concussion guidelines," Davies said.

Half of the good comes nether the Power's shot section brushed cap, with the remainder of the wealth to stay outside, unless the nine breaches concussion ruling again earlier the extremity of 2024.

It comes arsenic AFL Players' Association CEO Paul Marsh besides released a connection connected Friday.

"The AFLPA spoke to Aliir Aliir and Lachie Jones and met with Port Adelaide players and the nine earlier this week. The nine doc made a superior mistake but importantly some helium and the nine person taken work for the mistake," Marsh said.

Good clubs instrumentality by bully people

"We admit nine doctors person an highly hard occupation and 1 that takes spot successful a high-pressure situation with existent beingness consequences. This was a superior mistake of judgement that has rightly travel nether scrutiny."

Marsh took the accidental to punctual clubs crossed the league of the value of the concussion protocols successful place.

"This presents an accidental for the full AFL manufacture to bespeak connected its practices and protocols relating to caput knocks," Marsh said.

Earlier successful the week, the AFL issued the nine with a "please explain" after Port Adelaide failed to travel the league's protocols.

Aliir Aliir connected the seat aft his nasty collision. (AFL Photos via Getty Images)

Despite the AFL condemning the club's actions, the Power threw their enactment down nine doc Fisher, with manager Ken Hinkley adamant helium was "doing his implicit best".

"I deliberation it's a large mistake … But nary 1 sets retired to marque immoderate mistake successful immoderate benignant of occupation we bash – peculiarly arsenic a doctor. He's doing his implicit champion and has done large work of this footy nine for a agelong play of time," Hinkley said connected Wednesday.

"Do we deficiency spot successful Mark Fisher? No, that's not the lawsuit astatine all."

Port Adelaide champion Kane Cornes further backed Fisher connected Footy Classified, urging the Power to "stick by bully people" similar the long-time medico.

"He's impacted galore lives successful a affirmative way. I tin vouch for his character. I would spot him with my life, I've surely trusted him with my kid's life," Cornes said connected Nine's Footy Classified connected Monday night.

"He has made a mistake. Good clubs instrumentality by bully radical and that's what Port Adelaide should do."

Both Aliir and Jones volition miss Port's clash with Geelong connected Saturday night.

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