Scariest things seen on a footy ground

[Viva la Mattner]

Perhaps. But the real test of masculinity is exposing yourself to upper body and head injury. You never see soccer players getting hurt above the waist.

ohh i dont know about that!! ......


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in all seriousness, danny mortons neck injury and p.burgoynes wreckless tackle on daniel kerr when he could have broken his neck are right up there for me.

 

[Stevie_Crow]

I didn't think mentioning an ugly player would be funny after 12 times, how wrong was i!

 

[Footy_Fan2007]

1. osbourne / amulance
2. n brown broken leg
3. port winning the 04 flag

 

[Dan Moody]

Yeah eduardo's leg was a SHOCKER

thats not eduardos' leg, pretty sure that was the david buust injury. worst ever on a soccer pitch, youtube the footage and slo mo it. goalkeeper peter schmeicel throws up at all the blood on the pitch.
the icehockey "severed jugular" to clint malarchuck dwarves anything we've ever seen on a footy field, makes brownys injury look like a papercut.

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

Derek Kickett 'rolling' down to play full back on Jason Dunstall at the G many moons back was scary. Dunstall kicked 12.8 that day from memory (as the Hawks won by 160 points) and was also stood by guys like Flood. What was Sheeds thinking?

 

[kane249]

thats not eduardos' leg, pretty sure that was the david buust injury. worst ever on a soccer pitch, youtube the footage and slo mo it. goalkeeper peter schmeicel throws up at all the blood on the pitch.
the icehockey "severed jugular" to clint malarchuck dwarves anything we've ever seen on a footy field, makes brownys injury look like a papercut.

No this was Busst's injury

 

[Benno_900]

thats not eduardos' leg, pretty sure that was the david buust injury. worst ever on a soccer pitch, youtube the footage and slo mo it. goalkeeper peter schmeicel throws up at all the blood on the pitch.
the icehockey "severed jugular" to clint malarchuck dwarves anything we've ever seen on a footy field, makes brownys injury look like a papercut.

It is Eduardo. Was watching that game, his teammates' reactions were scary, didn't know wtf happened until I saw the pictures post-match ...

 

[Alatna]

Ling

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[jmkendall]

John Barnes broken arm was pretty horrific.

 

[lynchy23]

does anyone remember jason trainanidis finding a razor blade on the telstra dome surface?

 

[jaydylcole]

i snapped my ankle in a very similar injury to snell except bone was pretruding the skin, blood everywhere... was only 15 never played again... horrid!!
now when i watch footy i am always nervous when players go up in a pack!

another scary moment was at waverly the bombers were playing at waverly and the lights went out a full blown riot was on, i was only a tacker at the time and i was pretty scared!

 

[kane249]

i snapped my ankle in a very similar injury to snell except bone was pretruding the skin, blood everywhere... was only 15 never played again... horrid!!
now when i watch footy i am always nervous when players go up in a pack!

another scary moment was at waverly the bombers were playing at waverly and the lights went out a full blown riot was on, i was only a tacker at the time and i was pretty scared!

Haha yeah that was the occasion they ripped out the point post and took it for a tour of the ground

 

[Dan Moody]

It is Eduardo. Was watching that game, his teammates' reactions were scary, didn't know wtf happened until I saw the pictures post-match ...

apologies for error, either way god they both look friggin horrible

 

[Ari]

Snell's ankle

I know someone who works with him and apparently he still has major problems with it. Walks with a preety heavy limp. Poor bastard.

 

[Flashhh]

that dida video is exactly why people hate soccer. for someone to get bitch slapped (if that), chase someone for two steps then drop the the ground and get taken off by a on a stretcher is just pure stupidity. Its beyond a joke, I mean it was on the news bulletins and we all had a laugh about it but its beyond that, it reeks of a sport with no integrity.

 

[jolimont]

benny matthews being named in the firsts by roosy

 

[Shane_Mag]

Michael Wilson getting injured in the Prelim last year.

 

[Asty]

What happened in the Sachse incident?

http://www.woof.net.au/forum/archive/index.php?t-366.html

The accident happened a tick under 27 minutes into the last quarter, with Footscray 21 points up.

two minutes early. The ball is kicked deep into Footscray’s forward line. Sachse, the Scraggers’ gun recruit from North Adelaide, was on his way to full-forward. Gary Dempsey, the champion Bulldog ruckman, can’t quite hold the mark. The ball spills to a Fitzroy player who handballs an indiscriminate floater.

Sachse, an athletic, tallish player, grabs the hot ball and stumbles forward. He says he bumped into teammate Ray Huppatz. While he is losing balance, O’Keefe, a flame-haired half-back flanker from Terang, is moving to tackle him, front on. As he falls, Sachse’s head hits O’Keefe’s left thigh with considerable force. Thousands of spectators let out a disturbed “oooh'. Could he have avoided it? “I did try. You’ve only got a split second to make up your decision what you’re going to do. I wasn’t going to give in and he wasn’t going to give in. So that was the end.'

As Sachse lies flat on his back, unable to take his free kick and shot for goal, teammate Peter Welsh first gives him a gentle slap to the face and then, in a dangerous act of compassion, bends over and begins to pull Sachse up to a more upright position.
“Pete just picked me up and said, ‘It’s your free kick.’ I said, ‘I can’t move.’'
Sachse recently learned that this sequence has been used as a training video for handling the potential victims of spinal injuries. You’re not supposed to move them.
One can’t say whether Welsh’s well-intentioned assistance might have worsened Sachse’s injury.

“It’s something I’ll never know. It wouldn’t have helped. But the impact would have done a fair bit of damage as well.'

 

[scooterb]

Michael Wilson getting injured in the Prelim last year.

Wilson is as tough as nails.
I remember quite a couple of years back he did his ACL in the dying minutes of the last quarter and crawled off the ground to let a teammate on.

 

[tess]

Last years performance by Geelong in the Grand Final!

 

[ssfc0203]

Return of the mullet

 

[emuboy]

Richmond's Brad Gwilliam crashing into the goal post at Football Park in 1992.

Another scary thing I saw was a lunatic that ran onto the ground, and it took four police officers/security guards and a horse to subdue him and get him off the field.

 

[Masten2McKinley]

jimmy hird getting his face practically shattered at Subiaco one day a few years back.......

have to agree whole heartedly that was just sickening

 

[pazza]

There is only one time I have actualy been scared at footy or seen something scary. Most of the incidents mentioned are sickening.

But, I have to tell this story.

Back in 2001, happened to be umpiring a match where I was literally scared that I was not going to be going home that night as I left it.

The lead-up to it was interesting. My partner had laid a report of a player of the away side, in front of the away team fans (you can imagine a local footy game in that situation). The situation was intense. Now he was the senior partner this day, so as we begin to come off at half-time, he suggests we go a certain way - which was different to the normal course of events at this ground.

The direction he took, was through this group of supporters. Crazy? Yep probably. What happened next was amazing. My partner and a spectator began to scuffle. Imagine trying to get him out of there and remaining calm at the same time. I honestly thought I was going to get beaten up.

 

[Blueboy43]

John Gastev