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Gold Coast Suns lose Jarrod Witts to AFL season-ending injury, Essendon’s Dyson Heppell set to return
Gold Coast co-captain Jarrod Witts will miss the remainder of the AFL season after rupturing an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), while Essendon is set to regain its skipper Dyson Heppell following a back injury.
Key points:
- Scans confirmed the extent of Witts’s injury, which has ruled him out for the remainder of the season
- Witts’s absence leaves the Suns with a hole to fill in the ruck
- Heppell has been troubled by back spasms, which saw him miss the Bombers’ past two matches
Witts, the Suns’ first-choice ruckman, came from the ground in the third quarter of last Friday night’s loss to the Crows at Adelaide Oval after his left knee was trapped in an awkward position following up from a centre bounce.
Scans confirmed an ACL rupture, with…
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