Weirdest injuries to oust a player

[Mitchell Madness]

Brent renough missed a couple of weeks in 09 with a twisted testicle

Not aussie rules related, but a rugby player split his scrotum open mid game, the medicos were going to send him to hospital, but he told them to sew it up
He played the game out with half a dozen stitches in his nads

 

[ExTasDeeMan]

Wayne Carey; Broken Heart.

 

[The Wrecker]

Early in his career Stephen Tingay fell through a plate glass window, severing tendons in his right wrist and taking a chunk out of his right thigh. Impacted on the rest of his career.

 

[MontgomeryBurns]

Was going to go with Mark Coughlan slipping in the shower. Poor blokes knees were just not built for it!
Spanish goal keeper Santiago Canizares missed a world Cup after dropping a bottle of after shave on his foot and rupturing a tendon.

 

[FRUMPY]

Rio Ferdinand strained a knee ligament watching tv. Had his leg on a coffee table too long and strained it, pretty funny

 

[turtleWC]

We had some strange ones recently

Dean Cox taking out Josh Kennedy with a tennis ball

Wellinghams trampoline accident

 

[CollarJazzKnee]

Some NRL player ruptured his ACL when he slipped in his backyard and tried to avoid falling on his infant daughter who was playing on the ground.

 

[LeverPuller]

No mention of Richard Douglas yet?

Christian Petracca breaking a toe playing basketball while recovering from his ACL

 

[Mr_Bojangles]

From reading this thread I can only see a host of bullshit excuses. Wellingham's trampoline one a good one.

Not Aussie rules but a star Spanish goalkeeper who I can't quite remember the name of missed the 2002 World Cup after dropping something like a perfume bottle or wine decanter on his foot.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Josh Gibson - "Fell in the shower"

 

[krisholio14]

Brent renough missed a couple of weeks in 09 with a twisted testicle

Not aussie rules related, but a rugby player split his scrotum open mid game, the medicos were going to send him to hospital, but he told them to sew it up
He played the game out with half a dozen stitches in his nads

Buck Shelford