Heads 'n' Ball R3

After the Newcastle Knights' Alex MacKinnon's horrific paraplegia inducing injuries a couple of weeks back I thought I'd be nice and topical with this one. Then just this past weekend young Albury Tigers player James McQuillan suffered severe spinal injuries and was rushed to the Austin in a critical condition, yet to hear his long-term prognosois. Gee I felt great hearing that...

JOHN GREENING: Spent 24 hours in a coma and days of semi-consciousness after being flattened by Jimmy O’Dea in R14 ‘72. Was on track to win the Brownlow that year, he came 7th despite his season ending in R14. Lucky not to die or be permanently disabled, he came back a couple of years later, played 2 games then disappeared from the game.

NEIL SACHSE: Not so lucky. Injured in '75 in a freak collision with The Lions' Kevin O'Keefe during only his 2nd game for the Doggies, former Nth Adelaide premiership player Sachse became a quadriplegic.

Taffa said Barry Round, and was wrong.
Harv said John Greening and ahh... Neil Sachse and was right on both counts.

Coxy, Taffa and Brenton all had a go this week. They all found the haystack, but no-one got even close to the needle.

And so Harv, the original King of Head goes marching onwards: