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Nathan snapped his leg
« on: May 27, 2005, 09:51:37 PM »
Thats what rex said.

I feel physically ill.

Im going to bed.

No emoticon can describe

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Re: Nathan snapped his leg
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2005, 10:03:34 PM »
Why is it always our best player that gets injured and injured badly? :'(

Likewise Ox I feel sick to the stomach.

I can handle the loss as bad as it is as is it's only one week and we were beaten by a better side.  But Browny snapping his leg is sickening. Feel empty as anything.

I haven't seen it but going by Rex it's a season ending snap of his leg at best  :'(  :'(  :'(. Hopefully it's not career ending  :'(.
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Nathan snapped his leg in two places
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2005, 10:11:08 PM »
Browny's leg snapped in two places. Just annouced on 3aw  :'(
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Re: Nathan snapped his leg
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2005, 10:11:38 PM »
broken in 2 places supposedly. this is shocking for browny...i actually feel ill!

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Re: Nathan snapped his leg
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2005, 10:20:27 PM »
When did this happen?  We have delayed telecast - only 2nd quarter.

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Re: Nathan snapped his leg
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2005, 10:47:48 PM »
Julz it happend in the last bloody quarter when the game was gone  :banghead.

Matthew Whelan came across Browny's right leg to smother the ball and Browny's leg gave way. A break in both the tibia and fibia (sp?).
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Re: Nathan snapped his leg
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2005, 11:23:40 PM »
Dr Pete Larkins said at least a six month recovery. Boyle at Hawthorn did the same thing and was out for 12 months  :help.

Luke Darcy said he did the same thing as a 17 year old in a ruck contest (had a clean break) and was in a cast for 4 months and 10 months on crutches.
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Re: Nathan snapped his leg
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2005, 12:13:01 AM »
I haven't had the guts to watch the replay of the incident - just felt so sick i turned my head away, i couldn't watch it.
Thanks Browny for all the excitement you have given us this year - you didn't deserve something like this to happen and hope you have a speedy recovery.

Memories came flooding back of Jamie Lawson from the Swans after he broke his leg against us i think it was.  They mentioned this on 3AW on the way home on the radio and said he had a similar injury to Browny, and not only did it finish his career, virtually made him a cripple.  They said he sued his surgeon because of the job he did on him.

But they also talked about the use of titanium and how this has speeded up recovery in breaks - seems to knit better or something.  Hopefully when X gets on board he can tell us more on the medical side and what Browny will go through in his recouperation.

I feel really crappy - i think i mozzed him putting money on him for the Brownlow only today.  The money i care the least about, but will hesitate before i put any more money on any of our players again  ???

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Re: Nathan snapped his leg
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2005, 12:38:51 AM »
im shattered.....  i dont feel like doing anything at all this weekend... it always happens to us..im sick of it... i cant stand the emotions of football anymore... i know it happens to all teams.. but i just feel we seem to never have anyting go our way... i bet when he returns, he just aint the same... footy can be so cruel...

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Broken Brown out for the season - H-Sun
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2005, 02:42:46 AM »
Broken Brown out for the season
28 May 2005   
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Mark Robinson

SICKENING scenes of gun forward Nathan Brown cradling a leg with the bone snapped in half ended a disastrous night for Richmond at Telstra Dome last night.

The Tigers were mauled by 57 points – 20.11 (131) to 11.8 (74) – for their third loss, but worse, will lose their premier match-winner for the remainder of the season.

Brown was accidentally fallen on by Melbourne opponent Matthew Whelan after he had wheeled on to his his favourite left for a shot at goal. Whelan's momentum as he attempted to spoil carried him over Brown's right leg.

It was confirmed after the match the fibula and tibia bones had snapped in half and he was taken to Vimy House to be operated on immediately.

So comprehensive was the break that the bone could be seen pushing against the skin.

That scene was not unlike the incident involving Michael Voss at Subiaco in 1998. Voss also snapped the bone and, like Brown, could see his leg at right angles.

The popular Brown, with teammates Matthew Richardson and Wayne Campbell standing over him, seemed in shock, showing no visible signs of pain as he lay on the ground.

He sat there, his two arms supporting is dangling right leg, waiting for medical assistance.

Coach Terry Wallace was visibly shattered post-match, asking, on his way down from the coaching box, the extent of Brown's injury.

Wallace, a close friend of Brown's, said he could not watch the replay on the TV.

"You know him as a person probably closer than anyone else," Wallace said. "I've got a really strong relationship with him and at the time I didn't really want to see it.

"The guys, as soon as they saw it, just their expressions was enough for me not to even look at it.

"Obviously, I knew he was gone and he was in trouble so I didn't even have a look at it.

"It's been a disastrous night for everyone at the club, but unfortunately that's the nature of the business we're in.

"But as I said to the boys we've got to try to keep the spirits in the place up and that's the responsibility of us as a playing group."

The atmosphere in the rooms was one of devastation.

Brown's business adviser Oberon Pirak was there and told officials Brown's mother had rang him asking for information.

Tigers football director Greg Miller described the incident as sickening.

Club doctor Greg Hickey also seemed stunned by the extent of the injury, and fielded inquiries from president Clinton Casey and Miller.

He administered Brown pethidine in the rooms.

"He'll probably have a rod put down the tibia to fix it, possibly a plate as well," Hickey said. "Basically you have to fix that fracture in the correct position and it looked like that shouldn't be too hard to do, but then the bone's got to heal.

"He certainly was very calm, but I think he was in pain. Brownie is very tough, and he is very much in control, but I'm sure he was in a lot of pain. It certainly is one of the worst."

Commentator Brian Taylor, a specialist coach at Richmond, was in the rooms when Brown was brought in on the stretcher.

Taylor was amazed at Brown's calmness and ability to communicate. "He was calm. He was in complete control. He was talking openly to anyone who wanted to talk to him," Taylor said.

"He couldn't believe it when he looked down and saw the leg pointing in the opposite direction and that's why he refused to look at it from that point in time because he knew he was in trouble. I've never seen anything like it."

Brown's teammates, Campbell and Richardson, also were shattered post-match.

"I saw his leg, I knew it wasn't good," Campbell said.

"I just wanted to check if he was OK. I knew he wasn't OK, but I just asked if he was all right, which is probably a pretty stupid question.

"He actually looked calm. I don't know if it was shock or what it was, but he looked calm and I didn't expect that."

Said Richardson: "You're flat as a tack when you see when one of your mates down like that. He obviously was in a bit of shock and I don't think he probably knew what was going on."

Richardson panicked when the umpire stopped the game for the stretcher. "I thought something was wrong and then they showed the replay and you could see from that something had happened."

Calling on Channel Nine, Eddie McGuire, a good friend of Brown's, said he had tears in his eyes.

"It absolutely took all the spirit out of us. We were calling a great game. We were so excited, and as a commentator and football lover, seeing that, I was shattered," McGuire said.

"I actually had tears in my eyes when I saw it. Maybe because I know Brownie so well and I know what his footy means to him, but no doubt it was unbelievable."

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,15431060%255E19771,00.html

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Re: Nathan snapped his leg
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2005, 04:19:36 AM »
I haven't had the guts to watch the replay of the incident - just felt so sick i turned my head away, i couldn't watch it.

If anyone hasn't seen it and you get a queezy stomach easily watching such things then don't watch it. Ch 9 replayed it umpteenth times with each camera angle more graphic in showing the bent leg than the previous shot  :P. Poor Browny was suffering shock as he didn't flinch and was surreally calm. He must have been in shocking pain  :'(.

Hopefully like Voss, the breaks join and heal properly and Browny recovers fully with no lingering problems afterwards for his own sake. That's the most important thing.
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Re: Nathan snapped his leg
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2005, 04:21:37 AM »
I have never experienced the emotions I had than what I felt when I saw Browny go down.

I was absolutely shocked and felt quite ill.

I couldnt believe what I had just seen.

Then the tears starting welling up in my eyes.

I never thought something like this could affect me.

I wish Nahan all the best. No one deserves this.

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Re: Nathan snapped his leg
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2005, 04:32:06 AM »
I shed a few tears tonight when it happened, then towards the end of the match we saw them wheel Brown into the Ambulance I had to get up and walk out of the room so I didnt ball my eyes out.

The Tigers have given me so much joy this year and in one quick moment that whole feeling has been evaporated and I'm still numb.

I'm absolutely gutted, I cant even imagine how Brown is feeling tonight.

So devastated.

« Last Edit: May 28, 2005, 04:36:05 AM by Puntroadroar »
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Re: Nathan snapped his leg
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2005, 08:03:19 AM »

I'm stuffed.

Voss wasnt the same player he was after his injury and most likely,niether will Brown.

This is a sad day for football.

As far as the Tiges go...I just give up.


I went to sleep hoping it was just a bad dream..

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Re: Nathan snapped his leg
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2005, 08:06:33 AM »
The AFL Newsdeck only showed a tiny bit of what happened - the rest they said was too horrific to show.