Port Adelaide champion Zak Butters ‘struggled for air’ in worrying health scare during AFL finals loss to Geelong

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Port Adelaide champion Zak Butters ‘struggled for air’ in worrying health scare during AFL finals loss to Geelong
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Zak Butters struggled to breathe after copping a hit to the ribs during the second quarter of Port Adelaide’s horror qualifying final against Geelong. Port are at risk of being knocked out of the AFL finals in straight sets for the second year in a row after being demolished by the Cats at Adelaide Oval. And it remains to be seen whether their reigning club champion will be ultimately cleared to play after his health scare on Thursday night.

Port, meanwhile, will need to quickly move on from a finals defeat second only to their 119-point drubbing by Geelong in the 2007 decider. The Power will host the Western Bulldogs or Hawthorn for a spot in a preliminary final in Sydney against the Swans or GWS Giants. “This is the beauty of the message you sell ,” Collingwood premiership player Daisy Thomas said on Channel 7. “We earned the right to have a second chance and this is it.

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