Budding St Kilda spearhead Paddy McCartin will miss this weekend’s clash with Carlton after suffering his second concussion in the space of two months in Sunday’s loss to Adelaide.

The 20-year-old was carried off Adelaide Oval on a stretcher following a collision with teammate Jack Newnes and Adelaide defender Luke Brown in the third quarter. McCartin clashed heads with Newnes front-on, before hitting the back of his head into Brown’s head in the same contest.

After missing the second-half of St Kilda’s Round 3 win over Collingwood due to concussion, Saints GM of Football Performance Jamie Cox said the club has decided to take a cautious approach with the emerging key forward, ruling him out of Sunday's game against the Blues.

“Paddy won’t play this week. It was a precautionary to send him to hospital during the game at the weekend. But (given it’s) his second concussion, he certainly won’t play this week,” Cox told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday.

“Paddy’s good, he’s okay, he’s recovering fine. We certainly wouldn’t consider him this week and we’ve got the bye the week after so it gives him a good couple of weeks to hopefully come through it and we’ll reconsider it and re-test him leading into the first game after the bye.”

Cox revealed McCartin was cleared of any damage to his neck by doctors in an Adelaide hospital before he was discharged and flew home with the team late on Sunday night.

“It was an initial concern, you don’t mess around when there’s any sort of sign that there may be some issue, but that was cleared very quickly in the hospital," Cox said.

McCartin joins Billy Longer on the sidelines after the Saints elected to remove the ruckman from competition for the next month after he experienced some delayed symptoms following a head knock in the VFL.

Cox admits that clubs are becoming increasingly diligent with the way they deal with concussion as the awareness of long-term affects has increased in recent years.

“It’s certainly an area of the game that the awareness is increasing. It’s just an area no one will take risks on; it’s a delicate area and an area that no one’s going to muck around on,” Cox said.

“We’ve had Billy Longer in our system as well, who presented with some delayed concussive symptoms and the intervention there was to give Billy an extended break just to make sure he’s going okay.”

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