Port Adelaide ruck Lycett sidelined by knee damage

Port Adelaide ruckman Scott Lycett will miss a minimum of one sport due to a knee damage which pressured Dante Visentini into essentially the most sudden of AFL debuts.

The Energy say Lycett will miss as much as two video games after pulling out of Port’s four-point win towards Essendon actually on the final minute when troubled by a small cartilage tear in a knee throughout pre-game warm-ups.

Melbourne-born Visentini acquired strapped and was given his debut jumper by a property steward, just for Lycett to declare himself match.

However leaving the warm-up, Lycett modified his thoughts, although Visentini had already modified out of his taking part in strip and returned to the grandstand.

Visentini went again to the rooms to alter and got here on halfway by way of the opening quarter.

“On one hand it might need been good for him as a result of he did not have any of these nerves and did not have to consider it an excessive amount of,” Port assistant coach Chad Cornes mentioned on Monday.

“However then again, you miss the pre-game ceremony when you’ve got your mother and father and your loved ones there and also you get your guernsey offered, you do not get to take pleasure in that construct up of a traditional debut sport.

“However issues occur, you’ve got to adapt on the fly.”

Visentini’s mom and father had been additionally caught out.

“His mother and father acquired there by 1 / 4 time, they had been out for dinner someplace after which their automobile ran out of petrol on the way in which,” Cornes mentioned.

“So it is a bit of chaos however, all in all, a day I am certain he’ll bear in mind endlessly.”

Port substituted Visentini, a 20-year-old recruited with choose 56 on the 2021 nationwide draft, at three quarter-time.

“We subbed him out, it was a bit impolite trying again on it, wasn’t it?” Cornes mentioned.

“However he is a man with an excellent angle, nice mindset and he took that actually properly.”

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