Prized West Coast draftee Reuben Ginbey has shaken off a “nasty” poke within the eye to play in opposition to Geelong at Adelaide Oval throughout the AFL’s Collect Spherical.
Ginbey received caught beneath a Patrick Dangerfield deal with and went to floor with the ball in his grasp.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Reuben Ginbey appears disoriented after copping a poke within the eye.
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Within the strategy of wrapping Ginbey up, Dangerfield inadvertently poked what seems to be his thumb within the teenager’s eye.
A clearly disorientated Ginbey tried to stand up however shortly fell again all the way down to the bottom on his haunches in a baby’s pose.
Eagles trainers rushed to the 18-year-old and helped him off the sector, however he was nonetheless in ache and struggling to see.
“That might be nasty,” five-time Hawthorn premiership participant Dermott Brereton mentioned after seeing the replay of the incident.
“They take some time to return good.”
Adelaide legend Mark Ricciuto mentioned he had copped just a few pokes within the eye throughout his profession.
“Everybody’s copped a poke within the eye when you’ve performed just a few video games of footy – and it is not feeling,” he mentioned.
Ricciuto had solely simply been pumping Ginbey’s tires up, with the 191cm midfield bull having impressed within the first 4 video games of his profession earlier than Sunday.
“That is the perfect child they’ve picked up since, perhaps, Oscar Allen. Completely different gamers, however each equally as essential to their subsequent premiership,” Ricciuto mentioned.
“Reuben Ginbey was one of many causes I used to be trying ahead to coming alongside at this time,” Mark Howard added.
“He is a formidable younger fella; he is an enormous man for a younger age.”
It was the primary of two tough incidents for Ginbey, whose head slammed into the bottom in a harmful Rhys Stanley deal with throughout the second quarter.
A free kick wasn’t paid for that deal with, however one was for a equally harmful deal with simply seconds later when Tyson Stengle was wrapped up by Josh Rotham and slammed into the deck.
Stengle needed to depart the bottom grabbing his arm after it received caught beneath his physique within the deal with.
Ginbey was taken with choose No.9 in final yr’s draft.
