Complex sentence: Watson had a good start to the 2014 season, but injured his hip flexor in round 12 and consequently missed ten weeks, before playing in the final three games of the home-and-away season and Essendon's elimination final loss to North Melbourne.
Split into simpler sentences: Watson had a good start to the 2014 season, but injured his hip flexor in round 12 and consequently missed ten weeks. Watson later returned to play in the final three games of the home-and-away season and Essendon's elimination final loss to North Melbourne.