The star Cat flew home and landed back in Melbourne on Saturday afternoon, according to The Age.
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Ablett’s manager Liam Pickering confirmed the news ahead of Saturday’s AFL action getting underway.
“I haven’t spoken with him yet but I know he boarded a plane this morning and will obviously miss the next two games,” Pickering told AFL Nation.
“He’ll want to play again”.
The move to fly home means Ablett will miss the Cats’ next two games in Perth before he potentially rejoins the team in Queensland.
Ablett this month revealed his son Levi suffers from a rare degenerative disease. He opened up on his son’s condition for the first time in an Instagram post before expressing how tough it will be for him to leave wife Jordan and Levi on their own for at least the next five weeks.