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The brother of AFL WAG Kellie Finlayson was allegedly brutally attacked before being rushed to hospital on Saturday evening in Port Lincoln, South Australia.
Jake Gardner was allegedly knocked unconscious by two men at he left the Pier Hotel bar over the weekend.
The 26-year-old was quickly rushed to a local hospital to receive treatment for non-life threatening injuries.
He was later discharged and sent to Adelaide to receive head scans.
Two 24-year-old men were detained by police and have been charged over the incident.
The men were charged with assault and appeared before the Port Lincoln Magistrates Court on Monday.
The brother of AFL WAG Kellie Finlayson was allegedly coward punched before being rushed to hospital on Saturday evening, as he exited a pub in Port Lincoln, South Australia. (Pictured: Port Adelaide's Jeremy Finlayson with his wife Kellie and daughter Sophia)
Jake Gardner (pictured), who is the brother-in-law of Port Adelaide's Jeremy Finlayson, was allegedly knocked unconscious by two men at he left the Pier Hotel bar over the weekend
At the hearing, the French nationals were granted bail and ordered to surrender their passports.
Gardner's older sister is footy WAG Kellie Finlayson, who is currently battling stage 4 bowel and lung cancer. She is married to Port Adelaide's Jeremy Finlayson,
In October, Kellie revealed she is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the severe mental toll her ongoing treatment has had on her.
'Before I didn't really take PTSD seriously, but now I experience it myself to the point where I work myself up into anxiety before I get treatment,' Kellie told the Herald Sun.
'It makes me so much sicker. I'm currently on chemotherapy, but undergoing a range of intense treatments took a toll on me.'
Kellie said she was now committed to raising awareness about living with the brutal disease and unpacking some common misconceptions about it.
'Bowel cancer is definitely talked about more as an older person's disease. It's not. I was young, the fittest I'd ever been, I was running marathons, the pinnacle of health,' she said.
The 26-year-old was quickly rushed to a local hospital to receive treatment for non-life threatening injuries. Pictured: an image from the alleged altercation
The men were charged with assault and appeared before the Port Lincoln Magistrates Court on Monday
'Yet, the cancer still managed to affect me and get me when I least expected it.'
Kellie recently told Ant Middleton 'she did not want her life to to be defined by her disease' on Nova's Head Game podcast.
'If I'm alive, I might as well live. I'm living on borrowed time. I need to make the most of it,' Kellie said.
Kellie, who is married to Port Adelaide star Jeremy Finlayson, 28, added she took pride in 'thriving' with cancer.
The social media influencer has been fighting bowel and lung cancer after she was diagnosed in November 2021 following the birth of the couple's daughter Sophia.
She underwent several surgeries and chemotherapy after her initial stage 3 diagnosis worsened to stage 4.
In July, she confirmed the sad news she would have to resume chemotherapy to quickly get on top of the cancer, which had started growing again after she stopped chemo and radiation therapy in favour of natural and alternative treatments.
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