Adelaide CEO Tim Silvers has defended big forward Darcy Fogarty after he controversially played golf just days before a back injury.
Fogarty did not feature in Friday’s thriller against Fremantle, and will now also miss the game against Carlton, but Silvers defended the 26-year-old, simply saying it was “unfortunate”.
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AFL expert Kane Cornes grilled Silvers over the injury on Channel 7’s The Agenda Setters, with Cornes saying he was not “buying” the story about the golf game having nothing to do with the injury.
“A hard one from me off the top, I’m just not buying that Darcy Fogarty played golf on a Wednesday, turned up to training on a Thursday proppy, he misses on Friday, misses (the game) again (this week), and his back injury had nothing to do with golf,” Cornes probed.
“Are you adamant that it wasn’t caused by playing golf?”
“That’s a nice direct one to start … thank you, Kane,” Silvers fired back.
But the Crows boss insisted that the two were not linked.
“In terms of Fog, he’s been playing golf for a long time,” Silvers said on The Agenda Setters.
“He’s been playing golf when he’s been at the footy club for seven years. It had nothing to do with his back injury.
“It’s unfortunate. We don’t want any of our players out and missing, but we’ve also got to find this balance, work-life balance for everyone in the industry (it’s important) that we can have balance. And we think it’s important that our players have balance.”
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