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I’m Ghan home now
Injured player
takes the train
By JESS WEBSTER
Jasper Pittard rests up at Darwin Private Hospital yesterday with his dad Michael
Picture: JUSTIN SANSON
PORT Adelaide defender Jasper Pittard’s comeback AFL
match at TIO Stadium on Saturday night ended with a
cracked rib and collapsed
lung — but a free trip home
on the Ghan.
The promising 21-yearold’s first match since Round
20 last year was cut short after a brutal collision with
teammate Chad Wingard,
also causing bleeding in his
lung and leaving him unable
to fly home to Adelaide.
Given Pittard felt ‘‘like I
was hit by a train’’, it’s perhaps fitting he will enjoy
first-class seats on a two-day
scenic train tour from today
while contemplating another
stint on the sidelines.
‘‘All I remember was going
up (for the ball) and I didn’t
see Chad coming at me,’’ Pittard said from his hospital
bed in Darwin yesterday.
‘‘It was a pretty courageous thing he (Wingard) did, I
thought — I was just the one
that copped it. You would
never want him to change
the way he attacks the ball.
‘‘Maybe next time I will
protect myself a bit more.
‘‘There is one positive
thing — we got put up to first
class and Dad (Michael) has
been able to come with me
(after flying up from Torquay
in Victoria). I’ve heard it (the
train trip) is pretty amazing
and it’s probably something I
wouldn’t have done if this
hadn’t happened.’’
Pittard was accompanied
by Port Adelaide chief executive Keith Thomas to the hospital on Saturday night but
kept asking for an update on
the game, in which Port beat
Melbourne by 28 points.
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‘‘It was good work,’’
she said.
The 22-year-old man,
from Alice Springs,
brandished the syringe
at Red Rooster workers
about 10pm on Monday.
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