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ABC News
9 hours ago
- Sport
- ABC News
AFL round 19 live updates: Essendon Bombers vs GWS Giants from Docklands Stadium
Jake Stringer plays his first match against Essendon since leaving the Bombers for Greater Western Sydney. GWS are coming off four straight wins, including last weekend's triumph over Geelong, as they continue their quest for the AFL's top four. Follow the live blog below and tune in to our live radio coverage.
Daily Mail
15 hours ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
Footy star Jeremy Howe reveals he took so many drugs to overcome an injury that his wife wouldn't let him pick up their three-year-old son
Collingwood veteran Jeremy Howe has opened up on the shocking aftermath of a devastating injury that left him taking so much medication he couldn't pick up his son. Howe suffered three separate breaks in his arm after he landed awkwardly during the Pies' round-one clash with Geelong in 2023, the pain of which he described as 'like a blowtorch to my arm'. And that was just the start of his problems. Surgery on the injury did not go according to plan and he had to return to hospital to treat an infection in the same arm, ultimately sidelining him for four months. 'It was the pills and the painkillers that got me the most,' Howe told Unfiltered with Hamish McLachlan. 'I've taken anti–inflams and I've taken pain relief to get through games flat-out – it's probably not ideal but it's generally what I've done. 'Taking so many antibiotics, painkillers, all at the same time, for a large period of time, 11 days in a row. 'I was in such a haze I had no emotion. I didn't know what I was doing. (My wife) Kahlia would bring (our son) Zander in and I couldn't pick him up, I wasn't allowed to touch him. 'I questioned everything - is this really worth this, is this what I want to be at 32? I'm not even capable of picking my son up. 'If I can't be a husband and I can't be a dad, footy just gets parked and that's genuinely when I thought I was going to scrap it.' Howe, who has likened the trauma from his brutal arm injury to that of a car accident, says he still has nerve damage. 'I've got no feeling in my thumb,' he said. 'I don't know when that will come back.' Howe was kept on 'about a dozen' antibiotics for a long while after his accident so that the infection didn't return, and that created its own problems. 'I was taking so many antibiotics and the strength of what they were, my gut started eroding from the inside and ended up having to go back into hospital and getting more pills trying to fight what the other antibiotics are doing while I'm still playing,' he said. 'I was questioning, is this really worth doing this? I don't want to be 40 and all of a sudden my intestines are gone. Cooked. 'I managed to wean myself off the antibiotics... It was either stop playing and get the metal out or scrap the antibiotics and pray the infection never came back. 'So we just stopped the antibiotics... and it (the infection) never came back. 'I got off them and it instantly made me feel better. And I managed to win a flag at the end of the year.' In March 2025, the footy star and his wife welcomed their second child into the world just 24 hours before the Magpies' season opener against GWS. The delighted couple shared the news that three–year–old son Zander now has a baby brother named Saxon.
News.com.au
2 days ago
- Sport
- News.com.au
‘Feel sorry for you': Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge drops mic on journo
Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge has landed the latest blow in an ongoing stoush with commentator Kane Cornes, declaring he feels 'sorry' for anyone who works with him while conceding changes are coming to address his team's inability to beat teams above them. Beveridge and Cornes clashed before the Bulldogs' match with Geelong in round 12, and amid renewed criticism from the former Port Adelaide player turned shock jock after the Bulldogs' loss to Adelaide, the coach went again on Wednesday. After being questioned about the criticism, which included Cornes declaring the Bulldogs coach was steering an elite list of players 'like a busted Camry', Beveridge asked the assembled media a the end of his weekly press conference if anyone worked with him. 'Does anyone work with him? Is anyone from Channel 7,' Beveridge asked the assembled media. When football reporter Xander McGuire, the son of former Collingwood president Eddie, put his hand up, Beveridge smiled and said 'I just feel sorry for you' and laughed as he walked off. Beveridge had earlier scoffed when asked if he took any notice of Cornes but conceded it was hard to argue with him and others highlighting the 'fact' that the Bulldogs hadn't beaten anyone above them on the ladder, with clashes against reigning premiers Brisbane and top-four aspirants GWS to come in the next three weeks. But he also said it wouldn't 'creep' into the players' psyche. 'We've been beaten by small margins by good sides,' Beveridge said. 'What do you put that down to? There are so many variables in the game that relate to better opposition just getting you by two or three goals. 'That won't even creep in. 'We don't talk about it. We understand it, but it won't have anything to do with our preparation for Brisbane.' The Bulldogs' defensive issues have been called out as a major problem with their premiership ambitions, and Beveridge said key defender Liam Jones, who has only played four games this year and none since round 7 amid injury and form issues, would be discussed as an inclusion. 'Over the years we have picked the team based on performance,' Beveridge said. 'Liam has been through a period when he's been a bit crook, he's had one or two niggles, he's trying to find his way back to his best. 'The team this week will be selected on previous state league level performances and health. 'There will be some changes, but we'll work through them.' Beveridge confirmed former No.1 pick Jamarra Ugle-Hagan had returned to the club after more time away due to personal reasons and was 'chipping away' in his bid to get back to football. 'He's had some sorry business, some bereavement stuff back with the mob in Framlingham, and he's working his way back now through his fitness levels,' he said. 'He'll train – he probably won't do the whole session (on Monday), but he'll get through parts of it.'
News.com.au
2 days ago
- Sport
- News.com.au
Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge lands test shot in war with Kane Cornes as he flags changes for Brisbane clash
Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge has landed the latest blow in an ongoing stoush with commentator Kane Cornes declaring he 'feels sorry' for anyone works with him while conceding changes are coming to address his team's inability to beat teams above them. Beveridge and Cornes clashed before the Bulldog's clash with Geelong in round 12 and amid renewed criticism from the former Port Adelaide player turned shock-jock after his team's loss to Adelaide, the coach went again on Wednesday. After being questioned about the criticism, which included Cornes declaring the Bulldogs coach was steering an elite list of players 'like a busted Camry', Beveridge asked the assembled media a the end of his weekly press conference if anyone worked with him. 'Does anyone work with him? Is anyone from Channel 7,' Beveridge asked the assembled media. When football reporter Xander McGuire, the son of former Collingwood president Eddie put his hand up, Beveridge smiled and said 'I just feel sorry for you' and laughed as he walked off. Beveridge had earlier scoffed when asked if he took any notice of Cornes, but conceded it was hard to argue with him and others highlighting the 'fact' the Bulldogs hadn't beaten anyone above them on the ladder, with clashes against reigning premiers Brisbane and top-four aspirants GWS to come in the next three weeks. But he also said it wouldn't 'creep' into the psyche of the players. 'We've been beaten by small margins by good sides,' he said. 'What do you put that down to ? There are so many variables in the game that relate to better opposition just getting you by two or three goals. 'That won't even creep in. 'We don't talk about it. We understand it, but it won't have anything to do with our preparation for Brisbane.' The Bulldogs defensive issues have been called out as a major problem with their premiership ambitions, and Beveridge said key defender Liam Jones, who has only played four games this year and none since round seven amid injury and form issues, would be discussed as an inclusion. 'Over the years we have picked the team based on performance,' Beveridge said. 'Liam has been through a period when he's been a bit crook, he's had one or two niggles, he's trying to find his way back to his best. 'The team this week will be selected on previous state league level performances and health. 'There will be some changes, but we'll work through them.' Beveridge confirmed former No.1 pick Jamarra Ugle-Hagan had returned to the club after more time away from the club due to personal reasons and was 'chipping away' in his bid to get back to football. 'He's had some sorry business, some bereavement stuff back with the mob in Framlingham, and he's working his way back now through his fitness levels,' he said. 'He'll train – he probably won't do the whole session (on Monday), but he'll get through parts of it.'
7NEWS
2 days ago
- Sport
- 7NEWS
Unfiltered: AFL fan favourite Jeremy Howe shares moment he thought his career was over
Collingwood veteran Jeremy Howe has opened up on how close he was to retiring following the horrific broken arm he suffered in 2023. Howe suffered the gruesome injury in the opening-round clash against Geelong, but it was the complications and infections after the surgery that almost forced him to walk away from the game. Unfiltered with Hamish McLachlan, featuring Jeremy Howe, 9.30pm straight after The Front Bar on Seven and 7plus. The much-loved player detailed his immediate thoughts of the sickening injury to the low points of the recovery in a powerful episode of Unfiltered. 'The moment where I go upside down, I heard the snap before I hit a deck,' he tells Hamish McLachlan. 'And then once I got to the ground, I'm literally was laying there. Feels pretty painful ... Bruzzy (Brayden Maynard) comes over to pick me up, and then he's like 'oh f***' and I looked down my forearms facing the bench, but by the rest of my forearms up against my rib cage.' 'So it's snapped in four different places, and then my elbow tried to dislocate, chipped two bones in my elbow and snapped my AC joint at the same time. 'And they gave me a green whistle, and it did nothing. I had to wait for the ambos to get there before I could get pain relief. 'My dad was at the game. He came down. I was pretty much in tears, and I was shaking on the bed. I couldn't stop shaking, and I was like, whether I was in shock or they were trying to hold my arm but my legs are trembling. 'The chest is just shuddering, felt like I'm having pain attack. The pain was so significant, I've never felt like anything like it, it was like a blow torch to my arm.' But while the pain of the initial injury was unbearable, things got a lot worse for Howe. An infection to the arm forced him to take antibiotics and painkillers, which took its toll. There was a moment when he couldn't even pick up his one-year-old son Zander, which made Howe question his AFL career. Unfiltered with Hamish McLachlan, featuring Jeremy Howe, 9.30pm straight after The Front Bar on Seven and 7plus. 'It was the pills and the painkillers that got me the most,' he continued. 'But taken so many antibiotics, painkillers, all at the same time for like, a large period of time, like 11 days in a row. 'I was in such a haze where I just had no emotion. I didn't know what I was doing. 'Kahlia would bring Xander in. I couldn't pick him up. I wasn't allowed to touch him. I was like, what's going on? 'I questioned everything ... was this really worth it? Is this what I want to be at 32? I'm not even capable of picking my son up. 'And I've said it before, if I can't be a husband and I can't be a dad then footy just gets parked. That's generally when I thought I was gonna scrap it.' Howe went on to say that surgeon Julian Feller came to see him every single day, which is something he'll 'never ever forget'. For the time in his career, he needed time to decide his future and coach Craig McRae was fully supportive. He went back home with his wife Kahlia and young son, and lasted just nine days before he returned to the club. Howe immediately ticked off a lot of milestones in his recovery, but admitted that he still doesn't have feeling his thumb — two years after the injury. But there was an episode during his recovery that almost forced him to retire on the spot. 'I had an episode where I was taking so many antibiotics, and the strength of what they were, my gut started eroding from the inside, and I ended up having to go back into hospital, getting more pills to try and fight what the other antibiotics were doing,' he said. 'I was like, is this really worth doing this? Because I don't want to be 40, and all of a sudden my intestines in my stomach is gone. It's cooked. 'But I managed to get through I managed to weed myself off the antibiotics. It's either stop playing and get the metal (plate) out, or scrap the antibiotics and pray that the infection doesn't come back. 'So we stop the antibiotics and if it comes back, I'll get it metal (plate) out and then that's it, put a line through me, I'm done. 'And it never came back. So I got off the antibiotics and it instantly made me feel better.' Howe remarkably returned to the field just three months after the horror incident, going on to play in Collingwood's 2023 premiership team. And the 35-year-old is still going strong as the Pies embark on another tilt at the flag.
