Worst Injury you have seen in an AFL Game?

[Pie 4 Life]

What are some of the worst injuries you have ever seen in an AFL Match?

Tarkyn Lockyer when he did he knee
Buckley his hamstring - Although not disgusting, was upsetting!
James Hird over at Subiaco
Nathan G. Brown last knee - Ew that was bad.

 

[RoganSaint]

Actually, just remembered now. There was a West Coast or Freo bloke at a game I was watching on TV a few years ago, game was about to start and suddenly he falls over on the edge of the square and doesn't move, looked like he had a heart attack or something.

Can't remember his name.

Are you sure that wasn't a Port player... I think he plays for the dogs now... had an undiscovered heart abnormality... was it Nathan Eagleton? (could be wrong but I have a vague memory of that...)

I think I am right.. just found this here...

http://www.footy.com.au/dags/99/wrapup/wrap_r16.html

Further study of Port's Nathan Eagleton after his dramatic collapse last Sunday revealed the bloke had Wolffe-Parkinson-White syndrome, a disorder of the heart which causes it to beat irregularly. He had surgery during the week and should be back for round 19

 

[The Fireman]

Richard Osbourne? i remember and ambos taking him from the ground at the SCG

That's the one, Osbourne, thought the guy was dead.

 

[Vedder]

Riewoldts collarbone..wasnt that gruesome but must of hurt..so many tears!!

 

[Vedder]

but seriously, snells, voss, barnes and browns last nite were by far the worst

 

[Roonaldo!]

Snells.

 

[doog. where's my car]

Ok kids this might be before your time (most of you atleast)...

Tony Shaw - Dislocated Elbow!

Back in about 1989/90 Shaw had his arm sticking out at 90 degrees half way up. He just stood there in the centre sqaure looking at it, confused and signaling the unlucky trainer with his strait arm. Some how he didn't look human.

That's the worst i've seen. Anyone remember that one?

 

[Thunderstruck]

Havent seen Brown's yet, no doubt it is gruesome. I remember Snells vividly, that was very very bad indeed.

One of the worst I can remember tho is from the SANFL last year. Cameron Robert's broke his forearm and it bent backwards half-way up at near 90degrees. It was as if he had his elbow half way up. They kept replaying it over and over and it made you sick to the pit of your stomach. He landed awkwardly from a marking contest and it just bent under him like it was made of rubber. Shocking.

 

[viccles]

Didnt see Snell's one so I will have to say last night it made me want to puke The look on Nathan Brown's face was just scary...all the best Brownie.

Before that I would say James Hird's Subi incident

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Agreee with previous Richard Osborne knee at Waverly, Tony Shaw dislocated elbow, but the worst looking i reckon when John Barnes broke his arm against Carlton.

 

[johnnyhoward]

Tony Lockett's shattered elbow when Peter Caven headbutted him was pretty bad. Lockett missed 8 weeks from memory.

Browny's and Jason Snell's are the worst I can remember. There was a great article on Snell in the Age a few weeks back, I feel I should post it here:

Show me a retired footballer without post-playing regret or moments of bitter melancholy and I'll show you a remarkable, unusual man. Those who know and work with Jason Snell describe the 27-year-old former Geelong player as one of those.

Despite the freak marking accident at the MCG in 2001 - Snell's broken bone pushed through his ankle and his boot - which left him physically damaged for life, the emotional scars have healed as well as any in the competition.

Sometimes, though, his football time must flash before him. The early days learning his beloved game in the Dandenongs, the football scholarship to Carey Grammar, the five goals in a quarter he kicked as a 19-year-old against Port Adelaide, the most improved player award at Geelong when he was 22 and the promotion to the leadership group.

Snell's memories of the minutes surrounding the end include Ronnie Burns running past him after he had taken the mark. He remembers trying to handball to Burns before realising something was terribly wrong. Melbourne defender Alistair Nicholson had landed on top of him accidentally and all of a sudden, Snell was on a stretcher with his teammate Garry Hocking firmly clasping his head to prevent him from seeing all the blood.

For 18 months after the accident, Snell had surgery every two months and kept trying to come back. Then came the lone flight to Sydney and the surgery, after which he was told that, at 23, his football was finished, that he would never run again and would always walk with a limp.

He remembers standing outside the surgery in a town unfamiliar to him and calling his club doctor and crying over the telephone. Geelong, which had just signed Snell to a new three-year contract, kept paying him and the broken footballer and his manager met Wayne Jackson and Andrew Demetriou at the AFL, who said they would also help.

Recovering from having his bone fused in Geelong, Snell responded to the 500 letters he received. He completed his marketing degree, worked around the club and in the media and regularly visited club psychologist Greg Harris, where he vented his anger at watching teammates move ahead of him. It was only later that Snell realised how tough his misfortune had been on his parents and his partner, Emma Weekes, who by the end of 2003, was encouraging him to leave Geelong and move to Melbourne.

Unashamedly ambitious on and off the field, he vowed to make a success of his life and a combination of Snell's personality and the football network helped him. After a series of meetings with leading Australian recruiter Geoff Slade, whose son, Will, was a teammate, Slade realised that Snell was too impressive to let go.

Slade recommended Snell to his partner, Anita Ziemer, who was creating a new company, Final 5 - a new category in recruitment offering a shortlisting service focusing upon the lower end of the professional market. Less than 18 months later, Snell has been promoted to general manager in charge of seven staff.

He and Emma, who also moved jobs, now live in Yarraville. Last year, he settled out of court with the AFL for a relatively insignificant sum and abandoned his claim against the AFL Players Association insurers. The maximum money available to players whose careers are ended prematurely by injury is between $200,000 and $250,000 under both the AFL's and the association's insurance schemes.

"And that is if you become permanently disabled, such as being a quadriplegic," Snell said. "The way the process went for me was pretty stressful and not really a reasonable process for a player to have to go through. In the end, I was just rapt with the closure and rapt with my transition to life after football."

Snell applauded the Brendon Gale scheme revealed in The Age last week, in which current players will contribute several million dollars to an injury fund for retired footballers. While it will not apply to him, Snell hopes that he in some small way helped sow the seed.

There are still times of lingering sadness, though. Like last week when Snell drove to Geelong to attend the opening of the new stand at Skilled Stadium. So quickly, he realised, does the game and all that accompanies it pass you by. Like so many of his teammates, he had been warned by those who went before him that it all went in a blink. But he never believed it.

It seemed like only yesterday to Snell and the former teammates who joined him, including Barry Stoneham, Glenn Kilpatrick and Michael Mansfield, that the Cats were existing in the financial and football wilderness.

Now the men he used to run alongside were playing in front of a stand he could never have imagined. Snell watched his one-time teammates after the game access their own highlights and lowlights on one of three big screens now displayed in the players' room.

"I must admit it did hit me last week that it's just a pity not to be part of it," he said.

Still, Snell has returned to competitive sport, something he was told was out of the question back in 2002. He has joined a local indoor cricket team and although he can only hobble between the wickets, he loves the challenge. Unable to play long golf courses, he has managed to adjust his swing to the damage in his foot.

Although he wears orthotics, he does not noticeably limp except, he says, at the end of an exceptionally long day or if he stays too late at a party, has a few beers and spends too long on the dance floor.

"You're in the gym every day, it's like you're untouchable," Snell said. "It's as though you have this armour around you and nothing can touch you. Then all I did was land awkwardly and take a mark and it was all over."

 

[DonAce]

Are you sure that wasn't a Port player... I think he plays for the dogs now... had an undiscovered heart abnormality... was it Nathan Eagleton? (could be wrong but I have a vague memory of that...)

I think I am right.. just found this here...

http://www.footy.com.au/dags/99/wrapup/wrap_r16.html

Yeah, probably was, just remember it being an interstater.

 

[Alkaline]

In my time it would obviously be Nathan Brown! Very graphic!

 

[Silvermylar]

Yep, N Browns injury made me sick in the guts that is for sure - bad luck to him and hope he heals quickly.

Although not in an AFL game (although i think one day it may happen) but a young kid playing for Clarence in Tassie some years ago landed on his head which affected his spine in some way, now is living out the rest of his life paralized from the waist down.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

ALso a while back Sean Charles (former Demon) his first game for Carlton, broke his leg in two separate places when he was sandwiched i think against Richmond.

 

[Lonie_from_50]

Havent seen Brown's yet, no doubt it is gruesome. I remember Snells vividly, that was very very bad indeed.

One of the worst I can remember tho is from the SANFL last year. Cameron Robert's broke his forearm and it bent backwards half-way up at near 90degrees. It was as if he had his elbow half way up. They kept replaying it over and over and it made you sick to the pit of your stomach. He landed awkwardly from a marking contest and it just bent under him like it was made of rubber. Shocking.

I don't want to see that, that sounds terrible.

 

[kronical_tiger]

and the other was the Kristian Bardsley incident with Gary Ablett many years back. I guess that was more a incident than injury, but it was bad. I remember the words on the Sports Weekley "It was like somebody pulled the trigger in his mouth".

what happened there??

 

[ALwaysNorth]

Voss from memory spun around in the air after breaking his leg and lower part of his leg was swinging around so more graphic from Nathan Brown but what a kick in the guts for the Tigers losing the best small forward in the comp (apologies Hawks-Williams) .

The result of Locketts elbow was the worst facial injury made worse by the fact it was a deliberate act.

 

[the_mighty_pies_3733]

Shaun Hart. When Bradshaw's knee cannoned into the poor blokes face at 1000000 miles an hour in last years Prelim Final. i can remember feeling like vomiting when he got up with blood all over his face.
Shane Crawfords broken arm was preety bad too. Could tell from the agony he was in how much that must have hurt.

 

[MadRyan]

Snell's was far worse then Browns.

Jason Snell's freaking foot was HANGING from his leg.

 

[Thunderstruck]

Saw Browns on the news tonight...they made a special mention. "We warn that some viewers may find the following images disturbing"

Looked very very painful, bent badly and was just crooked....very nasty. Not quite as bad as Roberts but they all feel the same Ive had a finger that bent about 30degrees from normal and I thought that hurt.

 

[Stiffy_18]

Havent seen Brown's yet, no doubt it is gruesome. I remember Snells vividly, that was very very bad indeed.

One of the worst I can remember tho is from the SANFL last year. Cameron Robert's broke his forearm and it bent backwards half-way up at near 90degrees. It was as if he had his elbow half way up. They kept replaying it over and over and it made you sick to the pit of your stomach. He landed awkwardly from a marking contest and it just bent under him like it was made of rubber. Shocking.

That was sickening. I think it was last year when Sturt played the Eagles and it was a very wet day. Poor bloke came down and his forearm took all the force and I swear his forearm was "S" shaped.

That was just sickening stuff

 

[Johnson#26]

Snell.

 

[Leg_Spinning_Sensation]

Cresswells was disgusting
Browns dont remeber Snells
Hirdys was sickening and
Matt Mcguire and Chris Hyde was sickening as well
Also i just saw the guy who became a parlypledgic. Forget his name but it was horrific

 

[Leg_Spinning_Sensation]

That was sickening. I think it was last year when Sturt played the Eagles and it was a very wet day. Poor bloke came down and his forearm took all the force and I swear his forearm was "S" shaped.

That was just sickening stuff

far out, in one of my local games 4 years back a kid in my team (we were under 11's) sanpped his arm and a bone stuck out. It was sickening, never played footy again that kid.

cause of his mum