What if a player died during an AFL game?

[slugger]

There was a guy called George Allen who played for Sunshine VFA in the 70s (not the Port Melb one). He died of a heart attack while playing - can't remember if it was on the field though.

There's certainly been guys in amateur and country leagues have died on the field. Their fitness can be a bit suss though.

 

[- PC -]

Dont forget Nathan Eagletons heart stopped for a few seconds while playing for Port

 

[DarkRider]

What if a player died during a game you ask ????

The whole Collingwood team has died in Grand Finals plenty of times.

 

[The Opposition]

Last year...maybe year before? Before the WC v Geelong game, two school teams played a curtain raiser and one of the kids died....The game got delayed but not called off but apparantly it was a pretty flat match and no-one knew the kid so i assume that it would have a huge effect if it was your teammate...

 

[Whisky_McKay]

If it was an Essendon player, no one would notice

 

[Grunty]

Most of us have seen so much death on TV that we are immune to it. Yes there would be the customary hand wringing, but everything would be back to normal a week later.
The 15 year old kid who died at Subi last year got a couple of articles in the local paper then was quickly forgotten.

 

[Kingpin]

Didn't a Sydney Swans trainer die on the boundary line against North in the last quarter at the SCG last year?
That match continued on.
I'm not sure what the AFL's policy is on what the course of action is, when a player dies during a match.

I've never seen it happen myself, worst on field accident I've seen here was a Clarence player made a quadriplegic at Bellerive a few years ago.
Although I do recall a Clarence player being killed in a fight outside the old Bellerive Oval in the early 1980's after a TANFL match.
He got punched by an opposition supporter outside the ground, hit his head on the footpath and died.
His name escapes me though.

 

[Scandalous]

If it was an Essendon player, no one would notice

When you became a part of the Collingwood membership, did they come with a “How To Become an A**hole” booklet? Or does it just come naturally to you.

 

[CAMEL]

on the north west coast here
in Penguin i think it was
a young blokse 16 i think in a school game maybe? a pretty serious competition not just a weak school one, but he just collapsed and died i suppose they picked him up and moved him so he wouldnt get trodden on

 

[weagles_fan]

on the north west coast here
in Penguin i think it was
a young blokse 16 i think in a school game maybe? a pretty serious competition not just a weak school one, but he just collapsed and died i suppose they picked him up and moved him so he wouldnt get trodden on

Drugs?

 

[johnnyhoward]

Last year...maybe year before? Before the WC v Geelong game, two school teams played a curtain raiser and one of the kids died....

Yeah that was the same night James Kelly broke his leg, it was 2004.

Didn't a Sydney Swans trainer die on the boundary line against North in the last quarter at the SCG last year?
That match continued on.

I thought that none of the players knew about that though, so it had no effect on the game whatsoever. I'm pretty sure the Swans players found out what happened to Wally Jackson only after the game.

If someone died on the field it would definitely make the players go less harder at the ball, look at the way the Tigers played after Browny got injured, they completely lost their intensity. It would definitely get alot of media coverage, turning parents off letting their kids play AFL. Soccer would increase in popularity.

Let's hope it never happens.

 

[JF_Bay_22_SCG]

Has anyone died on the field in other Aussie Rules leagues, ie: SANFL, VFL, WAFL, Amatuer Leagues?

Swans trainer Wally Jackson died tragicaly half way through the last quarter agaibnst North last season. Was very very hard to take. Hit everyone in the club very hard.

I know that Marc-Vivien Foe died whilst playing for Cameroon in the Confed Cup in 2003 I think. Had a heart attack right there on the field.

JF

 

[stokesy]

If someone was dead on the football field, the game would be called off or something like that you would think.

If someone got hurt, went to hosptial and died well no one will know and the game will continue on.

If it was a star footballer - say a Hird, Reiwoldt or someone with calibre - would the team, or the game, play the following week? I reckon the team would try to postphone the game.

Lets hope it never happens.

 

[blues4flag]

Hope it never happens, but if a player dies because of a heart condition or something, it wouldn't affect AFL too much. If it was because of a sickening clash, such as Hyde's and Macguire's, than I'd reckon that the game's popularity will decrease tremendously, espicially at junior level, though I don't think it's very likely someone will die because of a collision.