Best playing injured stories

[Saintly2]

I'm not a rugby fan, but couldn't help by being inspired by Thurston for the Maroons continuing to play out the game even though shoulder gone. He was massively hampered.

He's out for the year with surgury and no suggestion continuing to play made injury worse.

Maroon's just got up in an unlikely victory. Take Thurston out and his influence out they don't win IMO, Cameron Smith also said were inspired by it.

That's some very tough and courageous stuff right there.

There must be heaps of stories (or folklore) of similar massive courage from AFL players over the years.

Is there a stand out?

 

[yeahmate]

I'm not a rugby fan, but couldn't help by being inspired by Thurston for the Maroons continuing to play out the game even though shoulder gone. He was massively hampered.

He's out for the year with surgury and no suggestion continuing to play made injury worse.

Maroon's just got up in an unlikely victory. Take Thurston out they don't win IMO, Cameron Smith said were inspired by it.

That's some very tough and courageous stuff right there.

There must be heaps of stories (or folklore) of similar massive courage from AFL players over the years.

Is there a stand out?

Dipper 89 GF

 

[MeestaNob]

Fractured back.

 

[DapperDon]

The New Zealand bloke that popped his sack picked up his nut put it in his sock and continued playing.

Just try and top that

 

[Nostradumbass]

The New Zealand bloke that popped his sack picked up his nut put it in his sock and continued playing.

Just try and top that

Wtfgif

 

[Fastback]

Dipper 89 GF

can add Dermott with 2 broken ribs and a ruptured kidney all game.

 

[DapperDon]

Wtfgif

Some rugby dude.

Hard AF

 

[iBeng]

Nigel Lappin, I think he played 02 or 03 with broken ribs all game?

 

[Saintly2]

The New Zealand bloke that popped his sack picked up his nut put it in his sock and continued playing.

Just try and top that

Sounds hard to top if legit....

 

[TerryWallet]

Bob Chitty chopped his finger off at the knuckle at work on the friday.

Played, and starred, the next day.

 

[DapperDon]

Sounds hard to top if legit....

Just googled to reconfirm. He had his sack restiched mid game and continued playing.

Unreal

 

[Plugger35]

Lenny Hayes played out a game after injuring his knee about half way through it, after the game he discovered he'd torn his ACL and needed a full knee reco.

 

[La Vache]

Was it Shane Webke for the broncos who played a GF with a broken arm?

 

[Ron The Bear]

Ted Ohlson played almost a full match as captain of Richmond v Melbourne at the MCG, R8 1912, with a broken collarbone. He was booed during and after the game by Richmond supporters who accused him of tanking.

 

[Shane Sheridan]

Hayden Bunton Jnr, playing for Subi, split scrotum before half time, stitched at half time, played out the game

 

[Looney]

Just googled to reconfirm. He had his sack restiched mid game and continued playing.

Unreal

Still sounds hard to believe. I've heard of stories where guys had burst or ripped a testicle. I heard it's so painful, you can't even stand up let alone walk.

 

[Ron The Bear]

Peter Stephens kicked five goals in Geelong's 13-point win over Fitzroy at Brunswick St, R3 1907, after playing the last three quarters with his arm in a sling.

Edit: Another source says Stephens discarded the sling at 3/4 time and kicked the winning goals. Somehow Stephens did not rate a mention in The Age's match report.

 

[Aeglos]

Lenny Hayes played out a game after injuring his knee about half way through it, after the game he discovered he'd torn his ACL and needed a full knee reco.

Pffft I know a guy who's played 8 years without an ACL (just don't kick it to his left)

 

[Saintly2]

Just googled to reconfirm. He had his sack restiched mid game and continued playing.

Unreal

LOL.

That's a massive effort.

 

[Saintly2]

Lenny Hayes played out a game after injuring his knee about half way through it, after the game he discovered he'd torn his ACL and needed a full knee reco.

That doesn't surprise me.

Very tough (not with the try-hard aggressive carry on) character, massive admiration for him.

 

[kickazz]

Second hand story, but a mate told me about a GFL grand final, where the full forward had really bad diarrhoea.

Long story short they shoved small towels down his shorts, gave him plenty of water and changed the towels when he came off for a rotation.

Anyway he goes on to kick a bag and they win.

Could be made up for all i know, maybe someone else has heard it and can elaborate?

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

Me, U-13s hockey at SNHC, popped my shoulder after 10 minutes, played out the game, we lost 12-0, out for two months

 

[Shaneprice97]

Second hand story, but a mate told me about a GFL grand final, where the full forward had really bad diarrhoea.

Long story short they shoved small towels down his shorts, gave him plenty of water and changed the towels when he came off for a rotation.

Anyway he goes on to kick a bag and they win.

Could be made up for all i know, maybe someone else has heard it and can elaborate?

F**k being the full back of the opposition team, i would have just let him kick a bag

 

[SuperSteele22]

Hated by many as he may have been, Alan Didak's effort to play through an entire finals series (including two grand finals) with a torn pectoral muscle is nothing to be sneezed at.

 

[Fastback]

Lenny Hayes played out a game after injuring his knee about half way through it, after the game he discovered he'd torn his ACL and needed a full knee reco.

Tough bugger...didn't Rob Harvey have to tear his own foot tendon to play on?