Max Gawn injury

Former St Kilda coach Grant Thomas is facing a social media backlash for a suggestion Max Gawn let his teammates down on Friday night.

I know there’s an image going around that suggests he’s feeling really down and that leads to potential ACL stuff. “We don’t know much more really. “Understand some are offended with the word “sooking”, it was a bad choice of words,” he posted. Fox Footy’s Jon Ralph reported the “best case scenario” would be a medial ligament strain that would rule Gawn out for a couple of months. He went on to say: “If Gawn alternatively walked straight upstairs and started encouraging team mates I’m certain you’d all be praising his leadership and he uplifted instead you are feeling sorry for him because he was downtrodden,” he posted. He said Gawn would have given his teammates a morale boost by returning to the field and cheering them on from the bench. “Possibly wouldn’t have changed much but Gawn sooking downstairs instead of icing on bench and connecting with team he is captain of didn’t help,” Thomas wrote on Twitter. Thomas on Friday night said he didn’t like the look of Gawn sitting in the sheds as the Demons began to get pulled apart by the Lions early in the second half. The ruckman was immediately in pain and went off the field and down into the rooms for assessment with his head in his hands. [where the match was suspended](https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/lions-vs-demons-afl-game-suspended-after-gabba-power-outage-in-bizarre-scenes/news-story/0e685f05eaa6be83e313b3c0e3ceb61c) as a result of a lighting tower break down. A former AFL coach accepts he offended some fans with a suggestion Max Gawn’s “despondent” act let his teammates down. The Demons captain went down with a knee injury just minutes into his team’s dramatic loss to the Lions,