September 2, 2025 • 15 mins
We talk to out mate Hughesy awho suffered five broken ribs and a punctured lung in the AFL Legends Game. It's fair to say the he's under the influence of some strong pain medication.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
What is this name?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I mean sometimes when we do a little bonus French,
most of the time it's for a good reason.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Something so tory.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yes, it's true, something exciting, Yes, which this is? Is it?
It's exciting, it's exciting. And also might I say we
have a theme with our special features, yes, which is
they're all about one person.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's so true. The man is walking content. The Man
is a gift to the radio and podcast of gods.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So let me just say this, say it. Dave Hughsey Hughes,
a friend of ours.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We live Hughsy.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Played in a footy match for charity, yes, last week
and as a running job.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I don't have to throw in for charity there like
it was some sort of.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
No because it was not a proper footing.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Sounds like it well and actually what because.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
They had real proper footy players.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
There's another charity match now for Hughes's medical build.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, because what happened? So you're talking these legendary former
players of whom I can hardly name any.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I can't name any current players.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Cyril REALI that he's famous, you'd know him.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Some ex player came out as bisexual last week for
Vola yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
But the next player is if I was a current player.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
All right, the closet and you there, you go secret
gameers and listen to the straight woman.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You will get every everyone will be in such a
rush to show how on board they are.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You come out of that closet, you get on grinder
and you won't even know what.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
To do with yourself.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
No, I'm talking about what Sorry, commercial opportunity. Oh yeah,
you'll be on the cover of every serial.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Offered, everything, everything, Every company will want to align with you.
Also just showed the message that it's it's fine to
be gay.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Hey, if you're not gay and you're playing footy, fake
it and take the cash.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
And there's no test.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Gay and you're playing footy, what are you doing cuddling
those guys, pulling their shorts down and having showers with me?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm sorry? And also, no gay man in my life,
and there are many has a haircut gayer than an
AFL player. Let me just throw that out there.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
What about the tats?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
That's a bit of rough gay gay, especially you've got
them in Bali guys, is it?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Why?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Just nothing gayer than a hot sweety man on a
holiday with all his mates and then getting stabbed and jabbed.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I love it, all right,
love it anyway. The point is Husey ended up with
five broken ribs and a collapsed lung. Jesus, and no
man has ever been happier. I just have it because
(02:59):
he's so thrilled. It's been wall to wall media coverage.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's all to wall, genuine wall to wall, genuine wall.
Doesn't happen anymore. Taylor Swift albums, Hughes's rips.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Okay, now there might be a slight problem. Oh he's
been prescribed hardcore yeah, opiates, hard to get stuff. Bear
in mind he stopped drinking when he was twenty two
because he had an issue. All right, we're gonna call him.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Okay, headphones on.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Oh I love it?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Oh cool, so dramatic.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Hello, yeah he's alive. Oh my goodness. Yes, Valvo said,
you were at a gig. Truly, I know that armaged
itself could not stop be getting to a gig. But
where are you?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
No, now, I'm at home now. I was at a
glass night. I did a charity. Yes, the afternoon, it
was close to time. So people are really sick, guys.
You know there's people sicker than me. Yeah, but you're whole,
You're not high nasty on spin.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That hang on. So I've spoken to you every day
since the incident. Tell us what happened. You're on the
footy field.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, So I'm playing the Legends, going to at Marvel
Stadium in Melbourne. There's thirty one or thirty two thousand
people there. You get me to get the ball, you
hear about it, and then you drop the ball. You
hear about it, yeah, and me dropping the ball?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, you need to go.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
All right?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Okay, Well I don't want to miss the goal, heart,
And why are you tackling your heart when.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We say missed the goal? Did you like get a
point or did you just miss it completely?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I was one of the kickoff brendan Forlola who was hogging,
and that's fair enough that the plane and then you
go to me and I was swaying by people and
I fumbled and I picked it up and then it
was guy from Brisbane, Joe pat Fall wrapped me up
in a big tackle and I thought, hang, I'm what's
going on here? And you sort of he sort down.
(05:10):
He took me down and I thought, aang on, this
is serious and then later on I went from Mark
I dropped it and Hodge, you kicked to me. I
made came to the radio with and I went back
in hard to make up my mistake. And his big
bloat from West Coast Eagles Andrew Embley just his big
bum just smashed.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
My Oh, sang on, So when did you but you
got the.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Goal then, now that was in the second quarter. I
was really hurting him like that hurts a lot. Yeah,
he sort of patted me on the back. I reckon,
he knew knew how hard it was.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I have a very dumb question. Hughesy very quickly. Yeah,
what broke your ribs in that moment?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
He did?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
He's ass bone.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah, he's his hips. The swing of a man who
weighed a hundred twenty k into your head, into your
chest will break your bones.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Did he knock you to the ground.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well, I was doing down, but he did not do
the ground.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
So you were already down and then he his bum.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I'm bending down to pick the ball up. He comes
into his side. Oh yeah, go into my side and
go crunch and I'm like and still grab me.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Hang on, can you get that sound again that you made?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Actually held on to him, said making that you I
can't get up. Yeah, so I said that hurts and
I was properly cooked from that moment. I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But you still got the goal here.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
But let's get it the heroic part. We got the
halftime and what have we got? We got the green whistle.
It wouldn't give me the green whistle. And if you
can't go back out of you get the greend whistle?
On can go back out?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You wanted to go out, You wanted to go out?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Of course I did. I want to go You had
three panat doll and then in the second when I
went back on in the third quarter, they said you
go in the middle and I said, sure, I want
to in the mill and then they said you go
on the rock.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I'm like, what happens in the run? Even I know
this guy that.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Jump, it's what and you.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I don't know why I wanted me to do. I
was going to get comedy rock. I thought it was
just comedy game. Yeah, a comedy rock cap Yeah, I'm
going after the comedy. But my opponent, because the biggest
guy on the ground, Daniel Gorine, who's the internet star now, oh,
Daniel Stable there's.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Huge on tiktop.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I don't know him.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
He's like twenty eight years old. He's like six foot six,
seven eight. He just he just he was no one
for me to go for the ball and just kill me.
He just ran straight through me. You gotta remember I
already had five broken rooms of this. Yeah, but you know,
I didn't know. I'm lying on the ground thinking I
don't know I'm dead. Yeah, I think I'm dead, and
(08:02):
then I think you were dead. I didn't want to
get up.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Okay, all right, hang on, hang on. What happened in
the moment where you thought you were dead? Were you
going up or down?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I reckon, I was stationary. But do you remember, Yeah,
there's thirty two thousand people there. Yeah, and the free
kick to me and a fifty minute penalty. So this
is my chance to kick a goal. But I can
hardly see. I'm so discombobulated. Yeah, but I knew I
(08:35):
was on the big screen, but I couldn't even look
up at myself. I was so oh and.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You love nothing more than to look.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
This is this is the worst part of the story,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
This is how we know that you were really suffering here.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
And I thought, I don't take me to the goal one,
so I just have to like kick it over the
Purson's head. But they didn't. They took me like to
twenty five meters out, so I still had to do
a decent kick properly. I'm like, oh my god, it's
gonna be I thought, it's gonna only chance to get
and then Robin, this Brisbane guy, came up to me
and so I've got to get you back. I said,
what for? He said, when you bumped me over? I said,
(09:08):
you told me to bump you over, and then I
could make me don't I'm hurting what he.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Wanted to get you back. So he was going to
hurt you some more.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Well because he looks like bumped him over earlier, but
you can see the vision. But he told me to
bump him over.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
He bumped me over.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
The start against bump me over. I'm trying to get involved,
and I bumped him over. I probably need have had
some of the I get that they get on the cameras.
Down the cameras. It was on the cameras, but he
so I kicked a goal and it was probably the
greatest moment in my life with my injury of arms
in the air and then me just runs over and
smashes me again. I'm like on the ground. I'm like, no,
(09:47):
that's kid, I'm dead.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So at that point you had five broken ribs and.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I didn't know that, but that was in the so
caught and eventually I just.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Had to get yeah, you're on the bench. We saw
you on the bench.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
And then in the last quarter they were chanting to
me because the announcers that who wants Husey back on?
Generally I would love it, but the champ came up hugely. Hisy.
You know, there's a little being twenty seven people change
my name. I couldn't go back on. I knew if
I went back on, I was.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Going to die. And also, you know why people were
changing your name because they wanted to see you out
there to cop some more.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I don't want me dad, Actually.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I thought one more nock?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
What some that went to the after party? And that's yeah,
real hero.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well you were there till two am, and then you
say you were there one am. Same thing, Same thing
to a man with five broken ribs and a punctured
lung who ended up in the hospital at five am.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I got Campbell Brown, No, Campbell Brown. Yeah, yeah.
He was staying at Crown Casino and he got me there.
And then I got a little bit from Crown Casino
and I lay in bed and I started groaning about five,
apparently to call an ambulance. But I'm like, no ambulance.
I'm not going an ambulance.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So sho, do you maybe get up and drive?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
You?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Yeah? An ambiance a bit much?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Do you not have cover?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I think we do have COVID, I'm all for. I
was quite critical of a cart and player.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Who went to, oh, that's an ambulance that footy players
are amusing. Ambulance is too much?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Sure, well, they couldn't find anything wrong with you, you know.
I mean, who knows what happens when he's got the
ambulance of fifteen pension?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
His die of heart attacks, you know?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
And so I just could have gone an ambulance.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Can I say this? You well could be the pension
that dies of the heart attack. You did not look
good out there. You were really struggling.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I don't look good right now. I'm still really struggling.
I'm like, it's hard to breathe. It hurts a lot
a doctor round me up to then or earlier? Did
I say, she's from a local clinic and they rang
up from the hospitals to get a plan to wean
me off the painkillers? What are weaning? He happened on Friday.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I don't wean the man. You can't be no weaning.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
But you know what it must be on your record,
because remember when you had the shoulder, you had the
shoulder surgery. Remember, and Sash and I came and visited
you and we said to the surgeon, don't give him.
You can't give him opiates. And he went give them
can and he gave me to you.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I was going to stay in the hospital, and I said.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
You love the morphine pump.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Well, I had it next to me, so I had
three extra presses.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
What do you mean you had three extra presses.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
If you're in hospital and they've got a morphine drip
attached to you, you can just press the button and
it just goes in.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
You do you know that's why junkies try to get
into hospital.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
This is gone dark?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Why what's your message the kids?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Maybe you should wean I think you should change my mind, but.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Don't tell me to You said that you were as
good as footy.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It me.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
That was that's said.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
It was your Your reply made me laugh so much.
Text Husey, you know were worry about you. You know
I love you and I said, you know, it looks
like you can play football as good as I can.
And you wrote back, this is the most painful thing
that's happened this way.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That's terrible. He doesn't understand.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Why do you hate gay people? Hugh's it?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Maybe he is great. We've just had a guy come
out as bisexual. We're very happy for me.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Hey, hughsy, why are you high before you wean off?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Before you you're a football man.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
What do you think is going on with this? No
gay footballer coming out? What's going on? And they're gay players?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
What's happened?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Of course there would be. There's so many romans, don't they.
Who cares? You need to be out there, you need
to like.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I think you definitely need a wan after that suggestion.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Sellers, let's play ball. That will be his halftime.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Rah rah, I'm awful and banging on that. It's all
the time. Who cares what anyone thinks in the world?
Do whatever? Make jab Yount.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
And what makes you still love you you.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
We love a man, we love I forgot to tell
him this one bit fun. He'll listen.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
What are you going to tell him?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
He looked good in the hospital, pick his head.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That was the great because on the ground he was
But now we know why because he was doubled.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
The pick in THEEWS dot com or whatever. His hair
looked good, he looked great.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
You look all right?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, but his wife took that picture.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I wonder if it was a filter on taken with laugh,
if I was ever in the er, punctured whatever, broken whatever. Yeah,
there is a filter going on that pic, no matter what. Yeah,
of course filter it.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah, give it the la one I like or the
Melbourne shut Up
What is this name?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I mean sometimes when we do a little bonus French,
most of the time it's for a good reason.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Something so tory.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yes, it's true, something exciting, Yes, which this is? Is it?
It's exciting, it's exciting. And also might I say we
have a theme with our special features, yes, which is
they're all about one person.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's so true. The man is walking content. The Man
is a gift to the radio and podcast of gods.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So let me just say this, say it. Dave Hughsey Hughes,
a friend of ours.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We live Hughsy.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Played in a footy match for charity, yes, last week
and as a running job.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I don't have to throw in for charity there like
it was some sort of.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
No because it was not a proper footing.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Sounds like it well and actually what because.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
They had real proper footy players.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
There's another charity match now for Hughes's medical build.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, because what happened? So you're talking these legendary former
players of whom I can hardly name any.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I can't name any current players.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Cyril REALI that he's famous, you'd know him.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Some ex player came out as bisexual last week for
Vola yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
But the next player is if I was a current player.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
All right, the closet and you there, you go secret
gameers and listen to the straight woman.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You will get every everyone will be in such a
rush to show how on board they are.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You come out of that closet, you get on grinder
and you won't even know what.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
To do with yourself.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
No, I'm talking about what Sorry, commercial opportunity. Oh yeah,
you'll be on the cover of every serial.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Offered, everything, everything, Every company will want to align with you.
Also just showed the message that it's it's fine to
be gay.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Hey, if you're not gay and you're playing footy, fake
it and take the cash.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
And there's no test.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Gay and you're playing footy, what are you doing cuddling
those guys, pulling their shorts down and having showers with me?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm sorry? And also, no gay man in my life,
and there are many has a haircut gayer than an
AFL player. Let me just throw that out there.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
What about the tats?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
That's a bit of rough gay gay, especially you've got
them in Bali guys, is it?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Why?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Just nothing gayer than a hot sweety man on a
holiday with all his mates and then getting stabbed and jabbed.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I love it, all right,
love it anyway. The point is Husey ended up with
five broken ribs and a collapsed lung. Jesus, and no
man has ever been happier. I just have it because
(02:59):
he's so thrilled. It's been wall to wall media coverage.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's all to wall, genuine wall to wall, genuine wall.
Doesn't happen anymore. Taylor Swift albums, Hughes's rips.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Okay, now there might be a slight problem. Oh he's
been prescribed hardcore yeah, opiates, hard to get stuff. Bear
in mind he stopped drinking when he was twenty two
because he had an issue. All right, we're gonna call him.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Okay, headphones on.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Oh I love it?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Oh cool, so dramatic.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Hello, yeah he's alive. Oh my goodness. Yes, Valvo said,
you were at a gig. Truly, I know that armaged
itself could not stop be getting to a gig. But
where are you?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
No, now, I'm at home now. I was at a
glass night. I did a charity. Yes, the afternoon, it
was close to time. So people are really sick, guys.
You know there's people sicker than me. Yeah, but you're whole,
You're not high nasty on spin.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That hang on. So I've spoken to you every day
since the incident. Tell us what happened. You're on the
footy field.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, So I'm playing the Legends, going to at Marvel
Stadium in Melbourne. There's thirty one or thirty two thousand
people there. You get me to get the ball, you
hear about it, and then you drop the ball. You
hear about it, yeah, and me dropping the ball?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, you need to go.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
All right?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Okay, Well I don't want to miss the goal, heart,
And why are you tackling your heart when.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We say missed the goal? Did you like get a
point or did you just miss it completely?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I was one of the kickoff brendan Forlola who was hogging,
and that's fair enough that the plane and then you
go to me and I was swaying by people and
I fumbled and I picked it up and then it
was guy from Brisbane, Joe pat Fall wrapped me up
in a big tackle and I thought, hang, I'm what's
going on here? And you sort of he sort down.
(05:10):
He took me down and I thought, aang on, this
is serious and then later on I went from Mark
I dropped it and Hodge, you kicked to me. I
made came to the radio with and I went back
in hard to make up my mistake. And his big
bloat from West Coast Eagles Andrew Embley just his big
bum just smashed.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
My Oh, sang on, So when did you but you
got the.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Goal then, now that was in the second quarter. I
was really hurting him like that hurts a lot. Yeah,
he sort of patted me on the back. I reckon,
he knew knew how hard it was.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I have a very dumb question. Hughesy very quickly. Yeah,
what broke your ribs in that moment?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
He did?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
He's ass bone.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah, he's his hips. The swing of a man who
weighed a hundred twenty k into your head, into your
chest will break your bones.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Did he knock you to the ground.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well, I was doing down, but he did not do
the ground.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
So you were already down and then he his bum.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I'm bending down to pick the ball up. He comes
into his side. Oh yeah, go into my side and
go crunch and I'm like and still grab me.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Hang on, can you get that sound again that you made?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Actually held on to him, said making that you I
can't get up. Yeah, so I said that hurts and
I was properly cooked from that moment. I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But you still got the goal here.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
But let's get it the heroic part. We got the
halftime and what have we got? We got the green whistle.
It wouldn't give me the green whistle. And if you
can't go back out of you get the greend whistle?
On can go back out?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You wanted to go out, You wanted to go out?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Of course I did. I want to go You had
three panat doll and then in the second when I
went back on in the third quarter, they said you
go in the middle and I said, sure, I want
to in the mill and then they said you go
on the rock.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I'm like, what happens in the run? Even I know
this guy that.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Jump, it's what and you.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I don't know why I wanted me to do. I
was going to get comedy rock. I thought it was
just comedy game. Yeah, a comedy rock cap Yeah, I'm
going after the comedy. But my opponent, because the biggest
guy on the ground, Daniel Gorine, who's the internet star now, oh,
Daniel Stable there's.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Huge on tiktop.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I don't know him.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
He's like twenty eight years old. He's like six foot six,
seven eight. He just he just he was no one
for me to go for the ball and just kill me.
He just ran straight through me. You gotta remember I
already had five broken rooms of this. Yeah, but you know,
I didn't know. I'm lying on the ground thinking I
don't know I'm dead. Yeah, I think I'm dead, and
(08:02):
then I think you were dead. I didn't want to
get up.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Okay, all right, hang on, hang on. What happened in
the moment where you thought you were dead? Were you
going up or down?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I reckon, I was stationary. But do you remember, Yeah,
there's thirty two thousand people there. Yeah, and the free
kick to me and a fifty minute penalty. So this
is my chance to kick a goal. But I can
hardly see. I'm so discombobulated. Yeah, but I knew I
(08:35):
was on the big screen, but I couldn't even look
up at myself. I was so oh and.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You love nothing more than to look.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
This is this is the worst part of the story,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
This is how we know that you were really suffering here.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
And I thought, I don't take me to the goal one,
so I just have to like kick it over the
Purson's head. But they didn't. They took me like to
twenty five meters out, so I still had to do
a decent kick properly. I'm like, oh my god, it's
gonna be I thought, it's gonna only chance to get
and then Robin, this Brisbane guy, came up to me
and so I've got to get you back. I said,
what for? He said, when you bumped me over? I said,
(09:08):
you told me to bump you over, and then I
could make me don't I'm hurting what he.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Wanted to get you back. So he was going to
hurt you some more.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Well because he looks like bumped him over earlier, but
you can see the vision. But he told me to
bump him over.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
He bumped me over.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
The start against bump me over. I'm trying to get involved,
and I bumped him over. I probably need have had
some of the I get that they get on the cameras.
Down the cameras. It was on the cameras, but he
so I kicked a goal and it was probably the
greatest moment in my life with my injury of arms
in the air and then me just runs over and
smashes me again. I'm like on the ground. I'm like, no,
(09:47):
that's kid, I'm dead.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So at that point you had five broken ribs and.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I didn't know that, but that was in the so
caught and eventually I just.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Had to get yeah, you're on the bench. We saw
you on the bench.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
And then in the last quarter they were chanting to
me because the announcers that who wants Husey back on?
Generally I would love it, but the champ came up hugely. Hisy.
You know, there's a little being twenty seven people change
my name. I couldn't go back on. I knew if
I went back on, I was.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Going to die. And also, you know why people were
changing your name because they wanted to see you out
there to cop some more.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I don't want me dad, Actually.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I thought one more nock?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
What some that went to the after party? And that's yeah,
real hero.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well you were there till two am, and then you
say you were there one am. Same thing, Same thing
to a man with five broken ribs and a punctured
lung who ended up in the hospital at five am.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I got Campbell Brown, No, Campbell Brown. Yeah, yeah.
He was staying at Crown Casino and he got me there.
And then I got a little bit from Crown Casino
and I lay in bed and I started groaning about five,
apparently to call an ambulance. But I'm like, no ambulance.
I'm not going an ambulance.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So sho, do you maybe get up and drive?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
You?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Yeah? An ambiance a bit much?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Do you not have cover?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I think we do have COVID, I'm all for. I
was quite critical of a cart and player.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Who went to, oh, that's an ambulance that footy players
are amusing. Ambulance is too much?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Sure, well, they couldn't find anything wrong with you, you know.
I mean, who knows what happens when he's got the
ambulance of fifteen pension?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
His die of heart attacks, you know?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
And so I just could have gone an ambulance.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Can I say this? You well could be the pension
that dies of the heart attack. You did not look
good out there. You were really struggling.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I don't look good right now. I'm still really struggling.
I'm like, it's hard to breathe. It hurts a lot
a doctor round me up to then or earlier? Did
I say, she's from a local clinic and they rang
up from the hospitals to get a plan to wean
me off the painkillers? What are weaning? He happened on Friday.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I don't wean the man. You can't be no weaning.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
But you know what it must be on your record,
because remember when you had the shoulder, you had the
shoulder surgery. Remember, and Sash and I came and visited
you and we said to the surgeon, don't give him.
You can't give him opiates. And he went give them
can and he gave me to you.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I was going to stay in the hospital, and I said.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
You love the morphine pump.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Well, I had it next to me, so I had
three extra presses.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
What do you mean you had three extra presses.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
If you're in hospital and they've got a morphine drip
attached to you, you can just press the button and
it just goes in.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
You do you know that's why junkies try to get
into hospital.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
This is gone dark?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Why what's your message the kids?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Maybe you should wean I think you should change my mind, but.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Don't tell me to You said that you were as
good as footy.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It me.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
That was that's said.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
It was your Your reply made me laugh so much.
Text Husey, you know were worry about you. You know
I love you and I said, you know, it looks
like you can play football as good as I can.
And you wrote back, this is the most painful thing
that's happened this way.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That's terrible. He doesn't understand.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Why do you hate gay people? Hugh's it?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Maybe he is great. We've just had a guy come
out as bisexual. We're very happy for me.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Hey, hughsy, why are you high before you wean off?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Before you you're a football man.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
What do you think is going on with this? No
gay footballer coming out? What's going on? And they're gay players?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
What's happened?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Of course there would be. There's so many romans, don't they.
Who cares? You need to be out there, you need
to like.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I think you definitely need a wan after that suggestion.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Sellers, let's play ball. That will be his halftime.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Rah rah, I'm awful and banging on that. It's all
the time. Who cares what anyone thinks in the world?
Do whatever? Make jab Yount.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
And what makes you still love you you.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
We love a man, we love I forgot to tell
him this one bit fun. He'll listen.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
What are you going to tell him?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
He looked good in the hospital, pick his head.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That was the great because on the ground he was
But now we know why because he was doubled.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
The pick in THEEWS dot com or whatever. His hair
looked good, he looked great.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
You look all right?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, but his wife took that picture.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I wonder if it was a filter on taken with laugh,
if I was ever in the er, punctured whatever, broken whatever. Yeah,
there is a filter going on that pic, no matter what. Yeah,
of course filter it.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah, give it the la one I like or the
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