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A sickening head clash has knocked Lance Franklin out cold in the Sydney Swans’ NAB Challenge match against the GWS Giants.
In just the 10th minute of the game, Franklin and team-mate Gary Rohan had a sickening head clash after competing for a loose ball in the Swans’ fifty.
The Coleman medallist was knocked unconscious after colliding with Rohan and remained motionless on Manuka oval for several minutes.
Medics tended to Franklin on the field, where he was put in a neck brace, stretchered off the field and taken to Canberra hospital for precautionary scans.
“As a precaution (Franklin) has been taken to hospital before the team flies back to Sydney,” Swans general manager of football Tom Harley said.
“He is not expected to have suffered any serious damage.”
Rohan escaped the collision largely unscathed.
The match, which ended with Craig Bird kicking the winning goal on the siren to defeat GWS 0.11.7 (73) to 0.9.13 (67), took an injury toll on both sides.
Swans captain Kieran Jack has undergone precautionary scans after a heavy hit to the abdomen in the second quarter while GWS’ Will Hoskin-Elliot nursed his arm as he left the field in the final quarter.
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