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Sydney coach John Longmire has hit out at “unfair” criticism of concussed Swan Harry Cunningham and says the defender has recovered well from a brutal collision with Peter Wright.
Watch every game of every round this Toyota AFL Premiership Season LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on Kayo. New to Kayo?“All we can do as coaches is to move with the times and move with the legislation and move with the rules of the game at the time. We’ve been trying to do that, and when these incidents happen, then it’s just a matter of caring as much as we can for the player,” Longmire said when asked about Cunningham.
Longmire said the tribunal verdict on the collision, for which Wright was handed a four-week suspension, showed the industry was “moving along” in learning how to protect its players from head trauma. “From our perspective Harry has pulled up really well, and so yesterday he was in great spirits, feeling good about himself, today he’s fantastic … So that’s our main concern. My first point of call is always with Harry and our players, so that’s the main thing from my perspective, to make sure he’s feeling good – which he is.”
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