Gold Coast Suns player to miss opening stages of AFL season after suffering leg injury

Gold Coast have suffered an injury blow ahead of their second JLT Series game with one player to miss the opening stages of the season.

GOLD Coast have suffered an injury blow ahead of their second JLT Series game with one player to miss the opening stages of the season.

For the second season in a row Sean Lemmens will have a delayed start to the AFL season due to an injury suffered in the JLT Series.

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Lemmens could miss the first six rounds of the AFL season after suffering an ankle in the last minute of Gold Coast’s win over the Western Bulldogs in Mackay on Sunday.

Scans confirmed the 24-year-old suffered muscle and ligament damage when an opponent felt across his legs during a contest in the dying stages of the team’s first JLT game.

Sean Lemmens has suffered an ankle injury and could miss up to eight weeks. Picture: AAP Image/Daniel Pockett.

“Typically it is a six to eight week injury,” Suns football manager Jon Haines said.

“It’s unfortunate for Sean because he has had a really positive preseason and is in terrific condition.”

Lemmens missed the opening stages of the 2018 season after suffering a hamstring injury during Gold Coast’s JLT game against Geelong in March that year.