Acts that ended AFL careers

[BluenGoldEagle]

Which players were never the same or never played again after a certain act?

I was thinking of Lance Picioane and how he was never the same again after that horrific Jess Sinclair hit. All that blood made me shudder.

Another one that comes to mind is Gary Ablett senior on Kristian Bardsley. Talented player but was a thug alright.

What ones can you think of? These are the only two that occur to me at the moment

 

[ManWithNoName]

Jason Snell immediately springs to mind.

 

[Angus Young]

Leigh Matthews clash with Barry Robran

 

[master bate]

Luke Tapscott stood on a sprinkler at Casey before he ever played an AFL game. Cost him his first year of footy with a hip injury and he had injuries the rest of the way until it was over.

Sprinkler 1. Melbourne 0.

 

[master bate]

Leigh Matthews clash with Barry Robran

Leigh and the point post as well.

 

[Hird Is Scum]

Trent Hentschel after getting tackled by Matt Thomas, 2006 if I remember correctly. Never really got over that knee injury.

 

[Angus Young]

Peter Motley car crash.

 

[The Falcon Strike]

Trent Hentschel after getting tackled by Matt Thomas, 2006 if I remember correctly. Never really got over that knee injury.

Until Jaymie Graham did his knee (and pretty much everything else) - the hentschel one was the worst i had seen. It went both bloody ways

 

[Engimal]

Many players have had their careers ended by announcing their retirement.

 

[Dazb86]

Brad Johnson being ran over by a golf cart

 

[Angus Young]

Laurence Anguin rocking up to training pinging.

 

[West Coast Weasel]

Jason McCartney, Bali bombings

 

[Willo_]

The most minor looking incident ended Matty Egans career
(although the argument could be made that him pushing to try play in the GF/the medical treatments ended it)

 

[Defacto]

Jason Snell immediately springs to mind.

what happened to him?

 

[ZEV]

Playing mitch morton that day - terry wallace

 

[Defacto]

rushing mitch brown back

 

[Purple Suit]

Deciding to take a pain killer not subscribed by the club doctor.

 

[I Lost My Keays]

Josh Bootsma , sending dick pics to another girl whilst his girlfriends was pregnant

#class

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Wayne Carey? The Act!

 

[Praetorian]

 

[helter skelter]

Would love to get a lip reader to tell us exactly what Ross is saying on the phone at the end of that clip. Think it starts with "HEY, tell Jack Anthony..." and ends with "(yelling)...He's a f***ing idiot!)

 

[DerpWerls]

Luke Tapscott stood on a sprinkler at Casey before he ever played an AFL game. Cost him his first year of footy with a hip injury and he had injuries the rest of the way until it was over.

Sprinkler 1. Melbourne 0.

The sprinkler copped a lot of abuse but I still say it was incidental. If anything Tapscott ruined the sprinklers career, he had a bright future.

 

[Kerleys Ghost]

Jeez that's bad. Why couldn't he spud it up this night?




Bah.

 

[PepeSilvia]

Tyson Stenglein's front-on head high bump on Ben Eckermann in 2005 I believe.

 

[Balony_pony16]

Gary Moorcroft mark of the year pretty much stuffed his back [edit- Hips]