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‘He’s confronted setbacks like this before’: Clarko on injury-cursed forward – AFL
Hawthorn’s Jon Patton goes down early with a lower leg injury against Essendon
HAWTHORN is awaiting scans to discover what caused forward Jon Patton to leave Thursday’s fadeout loss to Essendon before quarter-time.
In just his second match back from a long hamstring-related layoff, the 27-year-old former Giant pulled up short while preparing for a contest and left the field with a leg injury.
>> WATCH THE INCIDENT IN THE PLAYER ABOVE
Hawks coach Alastair Clarkson said the club’s doctors believed Patton had avoided an Achilles rupture, with a calf injury the more…
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